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Organizations
- AER Online
International professional association for people assisting in the education and rehabilitation of the blind
and visually impaired.
1703 N. Beauregard Street, Suite 440; Alexandria, VA 22311 USA
- Access Technology Institute (ATI)
Specializing in high-quality, readily available, on-line training for blind and visually impaired computer
users.
- American Academy of Ophthalmology
The AAO is an international member association
of more than 25,000 ophthalmologists, physicians who provide comprehensive eye care, including medical,
surgical and optical care. This site provides authoritative information about eye care for the public, and
serves the professional needs of the Academy's members.
PO Box 7424; San Francisco, California 94120-7424 USA
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American Council of the Blind
The ACB is the nation's leading membership
organization of blind and visually impaired people. It was founded in 1961 and incorporated in the District
of Columbia.
1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 720; Washington, DC 20005
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American Foundation for the Blind
The American Foundation for the Blind--the organization to which Helen Keller devoted over 40 years of her
life--is a national nonprofit whose mission is to eliminate the inequities faced by the 10 million
Americans who are blind or visually impaired.
- Braille Bug
An interactive channel on AFB's web site, created to teach sighted children about braille, and to
encourage literacy among all children--sighted and visually impaired.
- Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB)
The Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness is the international,
interdisciplinary journal of record on blindness and visual impairment that publishes scholarship and
information and serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas, airing of controversies, and discussion of
issues.
- Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
The ACBVI serves adults
who are either legally blind or visually impaired as well as those who have a degenerative eye condition which
may eventually become a visual impairment.
3100 East Roosevelt St.; Phoenix, Arizona 85008 USA
- Assistance Dogs
includes guide, hearing, therapy, seizure, and service dogs.
- Associated Services for the Blind
The ASB, serves the local Philadelphia
and South Jersey areas and beyond.
919 Walnut Street; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 USA
- Audio-Reader
Radio for the blind and print-disabled. The Kansas Audio-Reader Network exists to provide
print-disabled citizens with access to the printed word and other information via electronic media and other
technologies.
- Blind Childrens Center Inc. (BCC)
A family-centered agency serving children with visual impairments.
4120 Marathon Street, Los Angeles, California 90029-3584 USA
- BLIND CITIZENS AUSTRALIA (BCA)
The united voice of blind and vision-impaired Australians.
87 High Street; Prahran VIC 3181; Australia
- Blind Related Links
contains extensive listings of Blind and VI related links on the internet. Includes organizations, commercial
listings, adaptive equipment, braille and mobility, medical, government, etext, and employment.
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Blindness Related Resources
Index of blindness related resources. Includes listings of home pages of blind individuals, organizations
by and for the blind, adaptive equipment manufacturers and vendors, etc.
- Braille Institute
Provides free services and programs for legally blind children and adults in the greater Southern California
area.
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
A national voluntary agency providing services to individuals across Canada to whom loss of vision is a central
problem in personal and social adjustments.
- Department of Ophthalmology
Department of Ophthalmology. Columbia University.
New York, New York USA
- DB-LINK
The National Information Clearinghouse On Children Who Are Deaf-Blind, is a federally funded
information and referral service that identifies, coordinates, and disseminates information related to children
(birth to 21 yrs of age) who are deaf-blind. DB-LINK is available to anyone--parents, consumers, educators,
health care professionals, other professionals-- needing information on any topic related to deaf-blindness (eg
education, communication, orientation and mobility, medical issues).
345 N Monmouth Ave; Monmouth, Oregon 97361 USA
- Deaf-Blind Perspectives
is a free journal-like publication, published two times yearly by the Teaching Research Institute
of Western Oregon University, focusing on all pertinent issues important to
people who are deaf-blind, and the people who serve them.
Teaching Research
345 N. Monmouth Ave.; Monmouth, Oregon 97344 USA
- DIALOGUE Magazine
a publication of Blindskills, Inc.
Salem, Oregon USA
- Dr. L. Penny Rosenblum
At The University of Arizona
- Dyslexia: The Gift. Information and Resources for Dyslexia
Davis Dyslexia Association: Information about dyslexia and creativity, and effective methods to overcome
academic problems. This site also has links in several different languages.
- Ohio Center for Deafblind Education
The OCDBE formerly known as the
GLARCDBE provides
services in Ohio for individuals, birth through 21 years, with deafblindness, including free collaborative
technical assistance to families, educational personnel and service providers through training and information
dissemination. The OCDBE offers innovative approaches to the education of children and youth
with deafblindness.
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Macular Degeneration Foundation (MDF)
This site educates about coping with impaired or lost central vision caused by macular degeneration;
research on genetic and other causes of the disease; and developments in treatment and adaptive
technology.
The MDF, was established to educate people about age-related macular degeneration; the major
cause of impaired vision and blindness in people over 65, and the less common inherited forms of macular
degeneration, which affect children and young adults.
- New Macular Degeneration Support Canada
Macular Degeneration Eye Disease and Eye Care Blog
Personal Blog by Barry Wheeler with an exceptional amount of good information.
- National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments
NAPVI is a
non-profit organization of, by and for parents committed to providing support to the parents of children who
have visual impairments. In addition to a directory of on-line parents, you will also find a NAPVI discussion
forum and on-line chat room (NAPVI CrossRoads) where parents can post/read messages or arrange to meet
real-time to discuss anything they please.
PO Box 317; Watertown, Massachusetts 02272 USA
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National Association for Visually Handicapped
The NAVH serves the
unique needs of those who are visually impaired, visually handicapped, a little bit blind. This site is not
just for the "HARD OF SEEING®" but for those with family and friends that need everything from large
print books to the latest on their particular condition.
22 West 21st Street; New York, NY 10010 USA
- NBCS
National Blind Childrens Society
Shawton House; 792 Hagley Road West; Quinton, Birmingham B68 0PJ UK
- NEI
National Eye Institute
2020 Vision Place; Bethesda, Maryland 20892-3655 USA
- NFB
The National Federation of the Blind is one of the largest and most influential membership organizations of
blind people in the United States..
- NLB
National Library for the Blind.
Trustees from the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) and the National Library for the Blind (NLB)
have agreed to merge the library services of both charities as of 1 January 2007, creating the new RNIB
National Library Service.
- National Library Service
NLS for the Blind and Physically Handicapped; Library of
Congress. NLS administers a free library program of braille and recorded materials circulated to
eligible borrowers through a network of cooperating libraries.
- NYISE Blindness Resource
Center
The New York Institute for Special Education
999 Pelham Parkway Bronx, New York 10469 USA
- Parents of Visually Impaired New Zealand (PVI NZ)
The non-profit advocacy and support organization P.V.I. provides information and networking for parents of
visually impaired children in New Zealand.
- Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic(RFB&D)
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic is a national non-profit organization that serves people who cannot read
standard print because of a visual, perceptual or other physical disability.
- RLSB
The Royal London Society for the Blind is committed to empowering people with a visual impairment to lead
independent lives through the provision of high quality education, training and employment services.
- RNIB
Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom
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Science Access Project
The SAP is dedicated to development of technologies
that promote full accessibility of electronic information by future generations of people with print
disabilities. "Print disabilities" include low vision, blindness, and dyslexia. Primary funding for the
Science Access Project, Oregon State University, comes from the National Science Foundation
- Swiss Federation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
The largest self-help organization of people with a total or severe visual handicap in Switzerland.
- TCB
The Texas Commission for the Blind is now part of the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services.
4800 N. Lamar Blvd., Suite #340; Austin, Texas 78756-3178 USA
- TravelVision
Orientation & Mobility Services. Blindness resources, orientation and mobility training for blind and
low-vision adults, sighted guide instruction, seminars for health-care professionals, Other Vision e-zines.
PO Box 10763; Glendale, California 91209-0763 USA
- V.I. Guide
is a parent's guide to resources about visual impairments. Information about organizations that serve the
visually impaired, educational issues, laws and legislation, technology and more!
- Vision Australia
In 2004 Australia's first truly national blindness agency, Vision Australia was formed following the merger of
the Royal Blind Society (RBS), the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind (RVIB) and Vision Australia
Foundation (VAF).
Vision Australia provides a wide range of services for people who are blind or vision impaired.
- VisionAWARE Self-Help for Vision Loss
is a web site with a wealth of information designed to enhance quality of life and independence for people who
are blind or have low vision.
- Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group of New York City (VICUG NYC
is a consortium of blind and visually impaired people who want to maintain up-to-date knowledge about computer
technology. Network members pool knowledge and resources to help themselves and each other function at their
best in this fast-moving electronic age.
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