American Printing House for the Blind

Developing the full potential of children and youths with visual impairments, in the greater Orange County community, regardless of ability to pay.

Blind Links

An online resource with links to Web sites that serve people who are blind or visually impaired, including adaptive technology, advocacy and training, employment, mobility, braille, government and medical organizations.

Blinded Veterans Association

An organization specifically established to promote the welfare of blinded veterans.

Blindness Resource Center

Sponsored by the New York Institute for Special Education, this site provides an assortment of braille-related links.

Blind Net

Providing useful and factual information about blindness as well as links to organizations of and for the blind, vendors of adaptive equipment and other resources.

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) created the Braille Bug web site to teach sighted children about braille, and to encourage literacy among all children.

Braille Research and Literacy, Inc.

A nonprofit corporation whose mission is to improve via innovative technology the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired. A free monthly newsletter —"What You Feel Is What You Get"—highlights products and services presently available and discusses breakthroughs in technology for people who are blind or visually impaired.

Braille Through Remote Learning (BRL)

An online instructional program that provides teachers, parents, social workers and current/future braille transcribers with a series of three integrated online courses in braille and braille transcribing.

Brian's Eye

A personal look into the experiences of Brian, a Canadian man living with macular degeneration and choroidal neovascularization. Includes information about these eye diseases, the latest research and low-vision aids.

Assisting Californians with disabilities, including blindness, in obtaining and retaining employment and maximizing their ability to live independently in their communities. The site allows you to search for the office nearest you.

California Transcribers & Educators of the Visually Handicapped

An organization that strives to improve practices and technology to enhance the total educational program for students who are blind or visually impaired.

A Canadian organization that helps people who are blind, visually impaired and deaf-blind to live productive, fulfilling and happy lives.

Carroll Center for the Blind

Serves the needs of blind and visually impaired persons by providing rehabilitation, skills training and educational opportunities to achieve independence, self-sufficiency, and self-fulfillment and by educating the public regarding the potential of persons who are blind and visually impaired.

With locations in West Los Angeles and Torrance, California, the Center for the Partially Sighted helps visually impaired people of all ages enhance remaining sight in order to function independently. This Web site also has a page that gives you tips for adjusting your computer screen for optimal contrast and magnification, found at http://www.low-vision.org/computer.html.

Cleveland Sight Center

An organization located in Cleveland, Ohio, that helps people of all ages with vision loss to enjoy healthy and productive lives.

An organization located in Seattle, Washington, that works with individuals, families and communities to restore, maintain and enhance the independence and well-being of people with impaired vision.

A nonprofit organization that helps disabled entrepreneurs and professionals maximize their potential in the business world and encourages the participation and enhances the performance of people who are disabled in the work force.

A braille literacy web site for families of children with visual impairments. The site teaches parents beginning braille, includes stories about braille readers and offers fun and games for the entire family.

The Foundation for the Junior Blind provides programs and services for children, adults and their families to enable blind and visually-impaired children, young people, and adults to acheive independence and self-esteem.

Foundation Fighting Blindness

A national eye research organization that funds laboratory and clinical research at more than 40 prominent institutions in the United States and foreign countries. It also serves as a national source of information on blindness.

GovBenefits.gov serves as the U.S. government's official benefits website. GovBenefits.gov helps citizens quickly identify benefits offered across the government that meet their specific needs, including information to assist them in times of disaster or other emergencies.

GovBenefits.gov provides all citizens with a central location to find more than 1,000 Federal and State assistance programs for disaster relief, employment services, small-business loans, Medicare and more. Using an online questionnaire, citizens seeking assistance can quickly find programs they may be eligible to receive.

An organization located in San Rafael, California, that provides highly trained guide dogs to people who are blind or visually impaired.

Providing professionally trained guide dogs and instruction in their use, free of charge, to blind or visually impaired individuals, so that they may pursue their goals of independence and greater mobility.

The Guide Horse Foundation

Providing a safe, cost-effective and reliable mobility alternative for visually impaired people and to deliver trained Guide Horses at no cost to the recipient.

Offers more than 90 distance education courses to eligible adults, children, professionals and their family members completely free of charge.

Hebrew Visions

Hebrew Visions is designed to help blind individuals gain access to Hebrew Braille. Features a free Digital Library as well as a free web based Hebrew to Braille Translator.

An international trade group of radio reading services with Web sites whose mission is to provide audio access to information for people who are print disabled (blind, visually impaired, learning disabled or physically disabled). This site allows you to search for a radio reading service near you.

Helping others to better understand macular degeneration and its effects on those who struggle with the disease.

A non-profit organization that provides audio versions of plays on cassettes and compact discs in order to promote artistic awareness as well as access to theatric resources.

The Louisiana Assistive Technology Access Network's mission is to increase access to assistive technology in Louisiana by facilitating the development and implementation of a seamless system of assistive technology services and supports for all persons with disabilities.

A leading resource worldwide on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation.

Living Independently in Los Angeles (LILA)

LILA is a consumer-directed and regionally focused online project to benefit people with disabilities living in Los Angeles County.

The LILA project's purpose is to empower disabled residents of Los Angeles in their efforts to successfully and independently integrate into the social, physical and political fabric of their communities.

Conceived, developed and dedicated to its mission to create a community-based eye institute dedicated to excellence in research, education and culturally sensitive services to preserve and restore vision for underserved minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and for the whole of society.

A nonprofit corporation providing radio broadcasting of newspapers, magazines, ads and books to people who are blind or print impaired in Los Angeles County.

LowVision.com

A resource center for low vision, LowVision.com is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with visual impairments through awareness, resources and solutions. This site gives patients, friends and families of patients, and doctors a forum to find all their answers and solutions in one place, including information, news, discussion groups and products.

Provides information on the World Wide Web related to the fields of low vision and blindness.

Low Vision Web Ring

A list of more than 20 Web rings that provide information and support for people who are blind or visually impaired.

A nonprofit organization providing free braille and large-print Bibles and scriptures in 43 languages to people who are blind and visually impaired in more than 130 countries around the world.

Providing comprehensive, easily understood and up-to-the-minute information about macular degeneration to the public through the Internet, telephone, public events and printed materials, to support research and to coordinate advocacy efforts.

Providing information and support for people dealing with macular degeneration and related retinal diseases, which lead to a loss of central vision.

A private, nonprofit school located in Baltimore, Maryland, serving children from infancy to age 21 who are blind, visually impaired and multiply disabled.

This organization works with millions of people worldwide dealing with difficulties of vision impairment. The site also includes UPDATE, a quarterly newsletter.

National Braille Press

A nonprofit braille printing and publishing house established in 1927.

One of the federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH), NEI conducts and supports research that helps prevent and treat eye diseases and other disorders of vision. The site includes a Clinical Studies Database, offering information on major completed and ongoing clinical research supported by the NEI since 1970.

The nation's largest and most influential membership organization of people who are blind or visually impaired.

Administers a free library program of braille and recorded materials circulated to eligible borrowers through a network of cooperating libraries.

The Oakmont Visual Aids Workshop provides teachers of blind and mentally impaired children with tactile learning materials, including readiness materials teaching basic concepts, basic Braille instruction materials, educational games, and math study aids. The learning aids are made by hand by a group of volunteers living in Oakmont Village, an Adult Community in Santa Rosa, California.

Provides information about Peter's anomaly and other related eye diseases, including links to medical and resource Web sites, and offers a discussion forum and live chat room.

Founded in 1936, the Peninsula Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired is the primary resource in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties for those with severe loss of vision and enables clients to achieve their highest potential through programs that promote independence and improve quality of life.

The nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight.

The most complete source of material and equipment designed to support the education and professional goals of individuals unable to read standard printed text.

Royal Blind Society of Australia

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)

An organization located in Morristown, New Jersey, that enhances the independence, dignity and self-confidence of blind people through the use of Seeing Eye dogs.

This organization provides thousands of books as well as any publications you submit for the visually impaired. The books may be ordered on line and are delivered on a CD. A user receives ELF (Enhanced Letter Format) publications in both 30 and 48 point type which can be read on a computer screen or printed using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. This type is much larger and easier to read than other publications currently available.

Upshaw Institute for the Blind

Information, motivation, assistance and activism for the physically and mentally disabled people of the world.