Links

Braille Institute is committed to working with other organizations to broaden the scope of our community outreach.

Please visit the sites below to learn more about these other agencies and their work to enrich the lives of blind and visually impaired people everywhere:

• American Foundation for the Blind
  http://www.afb.org
  The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is a national nonprofit that expands possibilities for people with vision loss. AFB's priorities include broadening access to technology; elevating the quality of information and tools for the professionals who serve people with vision loss; and promoting independent and healthy living for people with vision loss by providing them and their families with relevant and timely resources.

• American Health Assistance Foundation
  Macular Degeneration Research site: http://www.ahaf.org/macular
  National Glaucoma Research site: http://www.ahaf.org/glaucoma
  The American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) is a non-profit organization that funds research seeking cures for Alzheimer’s disease, age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma, and provides the public with information about risk factors, preventative lifestyles, available treatments and coping strategies.

• American Printing House for the Blind
  http://www.aph.org
  The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) is the world's largest nonprofit organization creating educational, workplace, and independent living products and services for people who are visually impaired.

• The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
  http://www.arvo.org
  The purposes of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) are to encourage and assist research, training, publication, and dissemination of knowledge in vision and ophthalmology.

• Audio Internet Reading Service of Los Angeles 
  http://www.airsla.org
  The Audio Internet Reading Service helps those who are blind, sight-impaired, reading-impaired, low-vision, or who suffer diseases that make it difficult or impossible for them to read. Their mission is to provide podcasts of news, information, and entertainment that's otherwise inaccessible to them.

• Blind Children’s Center
  http://www.blindkids.org
  Blind Children's Learning Center’s mission is to develop the full potential of blind, visually impaired and deaf/blind children and youth to lead independent lives.

• Bookshare
  http://www.bookshare.org
  Bookshare makes the world of print accessible to people with disabilities.

• Braille International, Inc.
  http://www.brailleintl.org
  Braille International, Inc., is a not-for-profit company producing brailled books, magazines, menus, guidebooks and more.

• Canadian Braille Authority
  http://www.canadianbrailleauthority.ca
  The Canadian Braille Authority is dedicated to the promotion of braille as the primary medium for persons who are blind.

• Cleveland Sight Center
  http://www.clevelandsightcenter.org
  Cleveland Sight Center, a nonprofit agency founded in 1906, strives to empower people with vision loss to realize their full potential and to shape the community’s vision of that potential, providing people who are blind or visually impaired with educational, rehabilitative, preventative and other vision support services.

• CNIB
  http://www.cnib.ca
  CNIB is a nationwide, community-based, registered charity committed to public education, research and the vision health of all Canadians. CNIB provides the services and support necessary to enjoy a good quality of life while living with vision loss.

• Carroll Center for the Blind
  http://www.carroll.org
  The Carroll Center for the Blind, located in Newton, Massachusetts, is a private, non-profit agency which serves persons of all ages who are blind or visually impaired 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.

• Disability Forum
  http://www.lacityview.org/disability.htm?link=guide/links_departments.htm
  With over a million persons with disabilities living and working within the City of Los Angeles, it was time for a program focusing on individuals with disabilities, disability-related issues, and the Department on Disability. Disability Forum, hosted by longtime City employee, Mitch Pomerantz, is a 30-minute look into the issues affecting persons with disabilities and the department responsible for keeping those issues at the forefront of the consciousness of City officials..

• Family Connect
  http://www.familyconnect.org
  FamilyConnect is a Web site created by AFB and NAPVI to give parents of visually impaired children a place to support each other, share stories and concerns, and find resources on raising their children from birth to adulthood.

• Foundation Fighting Blindness
  http://www.blindness.org
  The mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc., is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), macular degeneration, Usher Syndrome, and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.

• Getting in Touch with Literacy Conference
  http://www.gettingintouchwithliteracy.org
  A national conference focusing on the literacy needs of individuals with visual impairments, GITWL brings together the most current thinking on all forms of literacy, including print, braille, auditory, tactile graphics comprehension and the use of assistive technology. Presentations will address the needs of a range of ages and all levels of ability, including conventional and functional literacy. Plus, more than 60 concurrent workshops and additional poster sessions will focus on specific areas. Check their website for the 2012 conference details.

• Junior Blind of America
  http://www.juniorblind.org
  Founded in 1953, Junior Blind of America’s mission is helping children and adults who are blind, visually impaired or multi-disabled achieve independence. Based in Los Angeles, Junior Blind offers specialized services for thousands of infants, children, teens and adults from throughout California and across the country. Through programs that offer early-intervention therapy, education, recreation and rehabilitation, students learn essential skills to help them maximize their potential and achieve their goals.

• Learning Ally: Making reading accessible for all
  http://www.learningally.org
  Formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), Learning Ally is a the leading accessible audiobook library for students with disabilities, such as visual impairment or dyslexia, that make reading standard print difficult or impossible.

• Lions World Services for the Blind
  http://www.lwsb.org
  Founded in 1953, Junior Blind of Lions World Services for the Blind enables people who are blind or visually impaired to function independently and to live full, productive lives with dignity and self-respect, and to promote a positive public awareness of blindness.

• Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc.
  http://www.lbwinc.org
  The Mission of Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc., is to provide the message of Salvation, through faith in Jesus Christ, to individuals who are blind or visually impaired throughout the world.

• National Federation of the Blind
  http://www.nfb.org
  With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is the largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States. The NFB improves blind people’s lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and self-confidence.

• Seedlings Braille Books for Children
  http://www.seedlings.org
  Seedlings Braille Books for Children is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the opportunity for literacy by providing high quality, low cost braille books for children.

If you would like for us to add your organization to our list of Links, please contact us.