Resouce Links for Individuals who are Blind or Visually Impaired
www.aao.orgAmericanAcademy of Ophthalmology
www.aapos.bu.edu
American Academy ofPediatric Ophthalmology
www.acb.org American
Council of the Blind – national consumer advocacy organization for individuals who are blind or visually impaired
www.aerbvi.org
Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired – provides information on blindness and vision loss, certifies professionals in the field of blindness
www.afb.org American
Foundation for the Blind – provides information related to vision loss, braille, employment, and publications
www.afb.org/braillebug
Braille bug has information on braille plus games, riddles and biographies of Louis Braille and Helen Keller
www.blindskills.com Blindskills,
Inc. – Resources for people with visual impairments, publishes Dialogue Magazine
www.blindness.org
Foundation Fighting Blindness (formerly the Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation)
www.brl.org Braille
Through Remote Learning – on-line instructional program that provides teachers, parents, social workers, and current/future braille transcribers with on-line instruction in braille and braille transcription
www.bva.org Blinded Veterans of America
www.children’sglaucoma.com
Children’s Glaucoma Foundation
www.eyecancer.com
Eye Cancer International
www.eyesight.org
Macular Degeneration Foundation
www.fape.org Helping parents and advocate improve educational results for children with disabilities
www.focusfamilies.org Focus
Families – website for families of children with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia and Septo-Optic Dysplasia (also known as DeMorsier Syndrome)
www.glaucoma.org
Glaucoma Research Foundation
www.glaucomafoundation.org
Glaucoma Foundation Organization
www.hadley.edu Hadley
School for the Blind – provides free distance learning (home school)
www.lighthouse.org Lighthouse International – provides information, advocacy and training for individuals with visual impairments
www.loc.gov/nls
National Library Service for the blind and physically handicapped
www.lowvision.org
Low Vision Gateway
www.maculardegeneration.org
Macular Degeneration International
www.spedex.com/napvi/
National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments – provides support for families of children with visual impairments and links to other sites of interest to parents
www.nei.nih.gov National Eye Institute
www.nfb.org National Federation of the Blind; the largest membership organization of blind people in the U.S.
www.perkins.org
Perkins School for the Blind – includes resources for parents, teachers, family members and others on issues and publications related to people who are blind, Deaf-blind and multiply impaired
www.preventblindness.org
Prevent Blindness America
www.ropard.org The Association for Retinopathy of Prematurity and Related Diseases
www.rpbusa.org The leading voluntary health organization supporting eye research
www.viguide.com V.I. Guide – A guide to internet resource about visual impairments for parents and teachers.
www.centervisionresearch.org
to enhance the research and training efforts of the basic and clinical vision scientists in the Central New York area
http://www.blindline.org/home.asp
BlindlineTM is a fully accessible web site created by VISIONS in collaboration with the American Foundation for the Blind to provide direct access to a New York statewide database of organizations and services for people who are blind or visually impaired, their family members, counselors, and other professionals.