Schools for the Blind in the United States
- THE ACHROMATOPSIA NETWORK
- ADVISOR - Assisting
the Development of Visually Impaired Students through Online Resources
- American Nystagmus Network
- A-Z to Deafblindness
- Blindness-Visual
Impairment - Home Page - a good comprehensive portal to the field.
- California DeafBlind
Services English Language Fact Sheet
- College of Optometrists
in Vision Development
- Deafblind
Children Home Page
- A Deafblindness Web Resource
- DJO - Eye Patient
Information Site
- Eye Diseases and Conditions
- Eye Resources on the Internet
- Eye/Vision
Review
- 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.
- Graves' Disease
- A Guide to the Eye
- University of Michigan- Kellogg
Eye Center
- Lea-Test Ltd lots of information
about assessing visual functioning
- Leber's Congenital Amaurosis
Listserv. This is for everyone interested in sharing and sourcing information
relating to LCA, adults with LCA, families of LCA children, interested
professionals, etc.
- Low Vision
FAQs
- The Low Vision Gateway
- Low Vision
Online - online training in low vision
- Marinesco-Sjogren Syndrome
- home page
- Medical/Ophthalmological
Links
- THE
MERCK MANUAL, Section 20: Eye Disorders
- Minnesota
Laboratory for Low-Vision Research
- Mississippi Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center - Information on Specific Eye Diseases
- National Eye Institute
- National Eye Institute Educators'
Information
- NOAH - The National Organization for
Albinism and Hypopigmentation
- ONH/SOD (optic nerve hypoplasia/septo optic dysplasia). To Send your Message
to the S.O.D. list, E-mail: sod-l@egroups.com
- ONH/SOD Family Focus (optic
nerve hypoplasia/septo optic dysplasia)
- A Parent's Guide
to Understanding Retinoblastoma
- ROPARD Association for Retinopathy of
Prematurity and Related Retinal Diseases
- Selected Anomalies and Diseases
of the Eye -Compiled by Virginia E. Bishop, Ph.D.
- Stickler Syndrome
- The United Mitochondrial
Disease Foundation
- 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.
- Visual Supports:
Helping Your Child Understand and Communicate
- What Causes
Blindness
Links for Parents and Family
- Abilityhub for disability and disabilities -
assistive technology solutions
- THE ACHROMATOPSIA NETWORK
- Autism Today, latest news and resources
for autism and autism related issues
- Beep Baseball-LAB Retrievers
Beep Baseball Team - information about beep baseball
- Bioptic Driving
- Blindness-Visual
Impairment - Home Page - a good comprehensive portal to the field.
- Braille School, also
known as BRL (Blindness Related Learning) is a provider of web-based communication
learning tools for the visually impaired, their friends and family. They
offer the ability to learn blindness related subjects such as Braille at
your own pace, the best feature about this site is that all services are
free.
- BVI-Parents Mailing
List - 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.
- Carolyn's Catalog - low vision
and CCTV's
- Deaf-Blind Multihandicapped Association
of Texas
- Deafblind Children
Homepage
- Exceptional Resources your
source for autism books and other autism resources
- Family Village
- Florida Families of Children with Visual
Impairments
- Growing Strong Resources
for Parents of Blind Children
- Helpful Websites for Eye, Low Vision,
and Medical Information
- HomeReaders - a non-profit organization
that provides catalogs, cookbooks and other reading materials to the blind
and visually-impaired on a 4-track tape.
- Help for the Family of a Special
Needs Child
- I CAN SEE BOOKS FOR ALL TO READ
AND ENJOY! - produces hundreds of Braille, cassette and print/Braille
books for all age categories
- IPIN-Indiana Parent Information Network
- NAPVI - National Association
for Parents of the Visually Impaired
- New
Vision Equality through Education - a large array of news, opinion,
and information related to blindness and visual impairment.
- 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.
- A Parent's Guide
to Understanding Retinoblastoma
- Parent Pals
- PHPV & Aphakia Support
Pages for Parents
- PHPV support group listserv
- Project PAVE: Providing
Access to the Visual Environment
- Resources for Parents & Teachers
of Blind Kids - Debbie Day's excellent site!
- ROPARD Association for Retinopathy of
Prematurity and Related Retinal Diseases
- 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.
- Seedlings Braille Books for Children
- The Texas Association for Parents of Children
with Visual Impairments
- THOUGHT PROVOKER -
THOUGHT PROVOKER is an independent E-Mail discussion forum with the purpose
to educate the reader to the human potential for living successfully with
blindness and visual impairment. Each Provoker covers a specific issue relating
to blindness and visual impairment. Issues presented in THOUGHT PROVOKER
are encapsulated in a short-short story with a thesis statement demanding
a response. Responses are compiled and listed within each THOUGHT PROVOKER.
- Three Days
to See - 1933 article by Helen Keller
- V. I. Guide Home Page, for parents and
teachers of blind and visually impaired children
- 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.
- BRL, Inc. - Home Page - At
BRL, Inc., we specialize in products that aid the disabled in educational,
vocational and recreational pursuits.
- The Accessibility
Bug - links to many world wide sites (not just U.S.) concerning technology
accessibility
- AccessBooks Limited
- 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.
- APH InSights Art Competition
and Exhibition Showcase for Artists Who Are Visually Impaired
- Art for the Blind
- 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.
- The Association for Retinopathy of Prematurity
and Related Diseases
- Blind Mobility Research
Unit Home Page
- BLIND RELATED LINKS
- 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.
- Captioned Media Program -
- Free-loan media (No rental fees)
- Open-captioned (no need for a decoder)
- Funded by the U.S. Department of Education
- Includes prepaid return labels
- 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.
- Cathy's Newstand -- OnLine Access Technology
Training
- Choco Braille -- unique chocolate
Braille gifts for the blind from The Chocolate Experience, Inc.
- Comprehensive web site
of Listserves and other E-mail lists for people with visual disabilities
- COMPUTER RESOURCE LIST from
NFB
- Cow's Eye
Dissection
- Center for International Rehabilitation
Research Information and Exchange - Database of International Research
- Deafblind Projects and Clearing Houses
- Disability Information
Resources a site that hope to collect all disability information in
one place.
- eSight Careers Network - blind and visually
impaired
- Judy Dixon's Collection of Braille
and Tactile-writing Slates
- Guitar By
Ear - music instruction in an all audio format
- Grandpa Tucker's
Rhymes and Tales - Text Index
- HotBraille Home Page Send letters
in Braille for free!
- THE INTERNATIONAL BRAILLE RESEARCH CENTER
(IBRC) The primary purpose of this web site is to provide a place where
people can find a collection of scholarly papers related to braille.
- International Center for Disability
Resources on the Internet - Books
- Key
Texas Laws & Resources for People with Disabilities, 2000
- Lilli Nielson Resource: Lilliput
North America
- The Large Print Literary
Reader - showcasing the very best fiction, essays, and history in large-print
format
- Music V.I. - music instruction in
an all audio format
- New
Vision - Equality Through Education
- Audio-Video Conferencing,
Hearing Impaired, Sight Impaired products
- Royal New Zealand Foundation for the
Blind Welcomes You
- Statistics
on Vision Impairment: A Resource Manual
- South Africa INSTITUTE FOR
THE BLIND
- St.Joseph's School for
the Visually Impaired - Dublin, Ireland
- SpecialEd Solutions, Inc.
- Special Education Exchange
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