Virginia Sowell Center Home Page - The Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Visual Impairment is an opportunity to continue the work begun by Dr. Virginia Sowell at Texas Tech University in Visual Impairment. It is designed to include an annual Distinguished Lecturer Series on the topic of visual impairment. The Center will eventually offer scholarships to students participating in the Visual Impairment, Orientation and Mobility, and Dual Sensory degree and certification programs. The Center is also designed to support faculty research and public service. Still in its infancy, the Center is evolving on a daily basis.
The Low Vision Gateway - created to be your starting point to access information on the World Wide Web related to the fields of low vision and blindness. The purpose is not to present one approach or bias but to provide access to all related information on the Internet.
VisionConnection - a one-stop, accessible online resource on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation for people who are partially sighted or blind, the professionals who work with them, the families and friends who support them -- and anyone looking for the latest information on prevention, research and treatment.
International Information on Visual Disability (TIRESIAS) - This web site is an information resource for professionals who work in the field of visual disabilities. The site has evolved from work carried out by Dr Janet Silver of Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and Dr John Gill of the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
Eye Simulation Page This application simulates eye motion and demonstrates the effects of disabling one or more of the 12 eyes muscles and one or more of the 6 cranial nerves that control eye motion. The purpose of this simulator is to teach medical students and doctors how the eye motion will change with pathology of the eye muscles and cranial nerves and what to look for during a standard neurological eye exam.
Lea-Test Ltd lots of information about assessing visual functioning
Leber's Congenital Amaurosis Yahoo Group. This is for everyone interested in sharing and sourcing information relating to LCA, adults with LCA, families of LCA children, interested professionals, etc.
VisionConnection - a one-stop, accessible online resource on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation for people who are partially sighted or blind, the professionals who work with them, the families and friends who support them -- and anyone looking for the latest information on prevention, research and treatment.
BVI-Parents Mailing List (last updated in 2001) - a list where parents of blind and visually impaired children can come to find information and support. The list membership is comprised mostly of parents, but there are some professionals and blind individuals on the list as well.
HomeReaders - a non-profit organization that provides catalogs, cookbooks and other reading materials to the blind and visually-impaired on a 4-track tape.
NAPVI - National Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired
OREGON Project Information - The Oregon Project for Visually Impaired and Blind Preschool Children (The OR Project) is a comprehensive curriculum designed for use with children birth to six who are visually impaired or blind. It can be used by teachers or counselors in the home or classroom setting, by preschool classroom teachers who are working with young blind children, or by parents, nurses, psychologists, or paraprofessionals who wish to provide instruction to preschool visually impaired children.
Sparkle - The name SPARKLE, stands for Supporting Parent Access to Resources, Knowledge, Linkages, and Education. Project SPARKLE purposes to develop a new model of individualized learning that will enhance the ability of parents of children who are deafblind to fulfill their critical and expanded role in the development and education of their children, in accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (I.D.E.A.) 1997.
Vision Associates - mission is to assist in identification of vision deficits in support of the earliest possible intervention, thus improving the quality of life for children and adults. To achieve this mission, Vision Associates Distributes quality vision tests and materials, and provides vision assessment workshops.
VisionConnection - a one-stop, accessible online resource on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation for people who are partially sighted or blind, the professionals who work with them, the families and friends who support them -- and anyone looking for the latest information on prevention, research and treatment.
WonderBaby.org - a site dedicated to helping parents of visually impaired children
Adjustment to Blindness and Visual Impairment This web site is devoted to changing what it means to be blind through the promotion of the human potential to successfully adjust to and live with blindness and visual impairment.
Assistive Media Inc. - of Ann Arbor, Michigan is a nationwide outreach literary service for persons with text reading impairments. As a producer of spoken-word recordings, AM creates and delivers audio-based streaming multimedia content through the Internet. Through this on-line service, the audio recordings of the literary works produced by AM are easily accessible and entirely free-of-charge.
Braille Novel-T's - unique products which are in some way related to Braille, Orientation & Mobility, education of the blind and visually impaired, and the teaching profession as a whole.
Deaf and hard of hearing persons, teachers, parents, and others may borrow materials
Described and Captioned Media Program - Offers free-loan described and captioned educational media and provides a clearinghouse of information related to educational media access.
