AFB SOLUTIONS FORUM PARTNERS

The AFB Textbooks and Instructional Materials Solutions Forum is a collaborative national effort of agencies and organizations that produce and distribute textbooks and other instructional materials to ensure equal access to instructional materials for students who are blind or visually impaired. AFB Solutions Forum participants include textbook publishers; educators; access technology specialists; producers of braille, large-print and recorded textbooks; parents of children who are blind or visually impaired; and adults who are blind or visually impaired.

AFB Textbooks and Instructional Materials Solutions Forum partners include:

Adaptive Technology Services, Texas A&M University at College Station
Alternate Text Production Center of the California Community Colleges
American Council of the Blind (ACB)
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER)
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Association of Instructional Resource Centers for the Visually Handicapped (AIRCVH)
Association of State Education Consultants for the Visually Impaired (ASECVI)
Braille Authority of North America (BANA)
Braille Institute of America, Inc.
California Department of Education, Clearinghouse for Specialized Media and Technology
California Transcribers and Educators of the Visually Handicapped (CTEVH)
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
Computer Application Specialties
Council for Exceptional Children, Division on Visual Impairments (CEC-DVI)
Council of Schools for the Blind (COSB)
Digital Audio-Based Information System Consortium (DAISY)
Duxbury Systems, Inc.
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Hadley School for the Blind (HSB)
Harcourt School Publishers
Helen Keller Services for the Blind
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped (NLS)
Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired (LSVI)
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
McDougal Littel
National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI)
National Braille Association (NBA)
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National Center for Accessible Media (WGBH)
New Mexico State University, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Northwest Vista College (San Antonio, Texas)
Pearson Education
Pearson Learning
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D)
Scholastic Inc.
Scott Foresman
TechAdapt, Inc.
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI)
Verizon Communications
Visual Aid Volunteers