Additional Resources and Information:
About.com’s website on visual impairment and blindness contains up-to-date information about products, blindness and events.
The American Council of the Blind is one of the nation’s leading membership organization of people who are blind and visually impaired.
The American Foundation for the Blind is a leading national resource for people who are blind or visually impaired, the organizations that serve them and the general public. Of particular interest to employers is the detailed guides related to visually impaired workers.
The Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) is the only international organization dedicated to professionals who work with blind and visually impaired individuals.
Blind Links is a site maintained by a private individual with links to countless blindness related websites.
The BLIST website contains instructions on how to join over 175 blindness-related emailing lists and newsgroups.
Bookshare.org is a non-profit organization that provides access to over 32,000 alternative format books via the internet to students and people with learning disabilities, visual imapirments and others who require accessible digital books.
Braille Bug is a website about Braille designed for children.
Family Connect brings together parents of visually impaired children.
The mission of the Glaucoma Research Foundation is to protect the sight and independence of people with glaucoma through research and education.
There’s a new website for Hadley School for the Blind, 700 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL 60093. Phone (847) 446-8111 or (800) 323-4238, FAX (847) 466-9916.
The Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths & Adults (HKNC) offers intensive and comprehensive rehabilitation training to individuals who are deaf-blind.
Idealist is a rich community of nonprofit and volunteering resources on the Web, with information provided by 20,000 organizations in 140 countries, and thousands of users every day.
The Low Vision Gateway was created to be a starting point to access information on the web related to the fields of low vision and blindness.
The National Federation of the Blind is one of the nation’s largest and most influential membership organization of blind persons, with fifty thousand members.
The Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Commission is a state-wide public telecommunications network that serves Ohio’s nine radio reading services, among other services, available to every citizen in Ohio.
Prevent Blindness America® is one of the nation’s leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight.
Tools for TODAY and TOMORROW is an organization for families and professionals caring for children with chronic illnesses or disabilities.
WGBH Educational Foundation offers online schedules for programming that features Descriptive Video Service (DVS), which weaves audio descriptions about key visual elements into the program to enhance television entertainment for people with visual impairments.
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