GENERAL LINKS

Schools for the Blind in the United States

·         Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind

·         Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind

·         Florida School for the Deaf and Blind

·         The Hadley School for the Blind

·         Illinois School for the Visually Impaired

·         Indiana School for the Blind

·         Kansas School for the Blind

·         Kentucky School for the Blind

·         Missouri School for the Blind

·         New York Institute for Special Education

·         Oklahoma School for the Blind

·         Overbrook School for the Blind

·         Perkins School for the Blind

·         South Dakota School for the Visually Handicapped

·         St. Lucy Day School for Children with Visual Impairments

·         Texas School for the Deaf and Blind

·         Utah School for the Deaf and Blind

·         Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind at Staunton

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Schools for the Deaf in the United States

·         Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind

·          American School for the Deaf

·         Arizona Schools for the Deaf and the Blind

·         California School for the Deaf

·         Central Institute for the Deaf-St. Louis

·         Colorado - Magnet School of the Deaf

·         Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf

·          Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind

·         Gallaudet University

·         Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind

·         Illinois School for the Deaf

·         Iowa School for the Deaf

·         Indiana Schoolfor the Deaf

·         Kansas School for the Deaf

·         Kendall Demonstration Elementary School

·         Louisiana School for the Deaf

·         Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf

·         Maryland School for the Deaf

·         Mill Neck Manor School for Deaf Children

·         Missouri School for the Deaf

·         Model Secondary School for the Deaf

·         Nebraska School for the Deaf

·         Mexico School for the Deaf

·         National Technical Institute of the Deaf

·         North Carolina School for the Deaf

·         Oklahoma School for the Deaf

·         Oregon school for the Deaf

·         Oralingua School for the Hearing Impaired

·         Pre-College National Mission Programs

·          Rochester Institute of Technology

·         St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf

·         South Dakota School for the Deaf

·         Summit Speech School

·         Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children

·         Tennessee School for the Deaf

·         Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind

·         Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind (Staunton)

·         Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

·         Washington School for the Deaf

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Some Key Organizations

·         Virginia Association of the Deaf

·         AFB National Technology Center

·         APH: Louis Database of Accessible Materials - formerly CARL ET AL

·         The Alliance of and for Visually Impaired Texans

·         American Council of the Blind

·         American Foundation for the Blind

·         American Council of the Blind of Texas

·         The American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.

·         Blind Children's Center Inc. Home Page

·         The Clovernook Center

·          Council Of Schools for the Blind (COSB) Home Page

·         CTEVH California Transcribers & Educators of the Visually Handicapped

·          European Blind Union

·         Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adult

·         International Blind Sports Federation Homepage.

·          International Information on Visual Disability - 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.

·          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.

·         NAPVI - National Association of Parents of the Visually Impaired

·          National Alliance of Blind Students To provide a forum for blind and visually-impaired students to discuss issues of concern to them.

·          National Braille Association

·          National Federation of the Blind

·         National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)

·          National Library for the Blind United Kingdom

·          Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision Site at Mississippi State University

·          Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)

·          San Antonio Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind

Some additional sources of information on various Eye Disorders

·         A Guide to the Eye

·         College of Optometrists in Vision Development

·          Deafblind Children Home Page

·          Eye Diseases and Conditions

·          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.

·          Information About Eye Conditions and Diseases

·         Lea-Test Ltd lots of information about assessing visual functioning

·          Medical/Ophthalmological Links

·          Visual Supports: Helping Your Child Understand and Communicate

·          What Causes Blindness

Links for Parents and Family

·         THE ACHROMATOPSIA NETWORK

·          The BIG Page of Special Education Links

·          Deafblind Children Homepage

·          Family Village

·         Guide to Resources for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments

·          Help for the Family of a Special Needs Child

·          IPIN-Indiana Parent Information Network

·          NAPVI - National Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired

·          V. I. Guide Home Page, for parents and teachers of blind and visually impaired children

·         Child Fair

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Other Links

·         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.

·          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.