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we all encounter at one time or another!
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American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is a national nonprofit that expands possibilities for the more than 25 million people with vision loss in the U.S. 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.
Blindness Resource Center is a great website with lots of resource listings.
EyeSmart™ public awareness campaign, sponsored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, is your trusted source for accurate, timely and relevant eye health information. EyeSmart empowers Americans to take charge of their eye health. We urge everyone to know their risk factors for eye diseases, infections and injuries, and to understand how ophthalmologists can help prevent, diagnose and treat eye conditions.
On FamilyConnect: For Parents of Children with Visual Impairments you'll find videos, personal stories, events, news, and an online community that can offer tips and support from other parents of children who are blind or visually impaired.
Financial Aid for Eye Care is a listing of various groups providing financial aid for eye exams and surgery, eye glasses, prescriptions and various government programs.
Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc. mission 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.
Foundation for Retinal Research is committed to finding treatments and cures for Retinal Degenerative Diseases and supporting the lives of affected families. FRR's scientists are making strides in identifying genes and paving the path towards clinical trials for LCA. The FRR is helping speed up the time frame for these trials, with the hope that there will be sight restoration for all LCA patients.
Governor Morehead School for the Blind will educate, advocate, and provide resources for all North Carolina students with visual impairment, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
Industries of the Blind, Inc. provides opportunities for employment and personal development for people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve greater independence.
"Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness" is available through the Wake County Public Library. Log onto their website at www.wakegov.com/libraries/default.htm and enter "Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness" in the search box. Click on link under Weblinks to access. Will need a library card number and password to access.
Lighthouse International is dedicated to fighting vision loss through prevention, treatment and empowerment.
Metrolina Association for the Blind provides two main services. Personal Adjustment and Rehabilitation Services helps people who are blind or visually impaired learn techniques of daily living and ways to increase their independence. Accessible Braille Services is a braille and large print transcription operation.
National Association of Parents of the Visually Impaired (NAPVI) is a national organization that enables parents to find information and resources for their children who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities.
National Eye Institute’s mission is to "conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases, visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function, preservation of sight, and the special health problems and requirements of the blind." The National Eye Institute is part of the federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
National Federation of the Blind is the largest organization of the blind in America. Founded in 1940, the Federation has grown to include over 50,000 members. The ultimate purpose of the National Federation of the Blind is the complete integration of the blind into society on a basis of equality. This objective involves the removal of legal, economic, and social discriminations; the education of the public to new concepts concerning blindness; and the achievement by all blind people of the right to exercise to the fullest their individual talents and capacities. Be sure to reference the free white cane program.
One Small Voice Foundation: Inspired by the love and generosity of our supporters, we strive to give a voice to all children with optic nerve hypoplasia and hydrocephalus. We will educate and inform others about these disorders. We will support research efforts to benefit children with optic nerve hypoplasia and hydrocephalus. Our mission will be accomplished with the highest level of integrity and commitment.
Perkins School for the Blind is committed to providing education and services that build productive, meaningful lives for children and adults around the world who are blind, deafblind or visually impaired with or without other disabilities. View educational webcasts at www.perkins.org/resources/webcasts/ and Wonder Baby: A Place for Parents at WonderBaby.org.
Prevent Blindness North Carolina was organized in 1967 as a nonprofit health agency. An independent affiliate of Prevent Blindness America (established in 1908), PBNC delivers direct service programs designed to preserve sight through screening, publications, safety, education, information and referral through volunteer efforts. PBNC's mission is to reach people before blindness strikes. Website includes a list of organizations that provide financial resources for vision care in the state of North Carolina.
Raleigh Lyons Clinic for the Blind (RLCB) empowers people who are blind and visually impaired through employment opportunities and services to achieve social and economic equality. We manufacture quality products and provide quality services. Be sure to review the community services section of website.
Scottish Sensory Centre (SSC) publishes a comprehensive list of eye conditions by Dr Andrew Blaikie for VI Scotland that explain the diagnosis. These explanations are useful in helping explain eye conditions to teachers and others.
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) serves as a special public school in the continuum of statewide placements for students who have a visual impairment. Students, ages 6 through 21, who are blind, deafblind, or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities, are eligible for consideration for services on the TSBVI campus. It is also a statewide resource to parents of these children and the professionals who serve them, from birth through transition from school.
VisionWalk is the national signature fundraising event of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Since its inception in the Spring of 2006, the program has raised over $19 million to fund sight-saving research.
