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• American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), a U.S. nonprofit organization enabling blind or visually impaired people to achieve equality and access. Provides information and referrals about living with visual impairment. Helen Keller devoted over 40 years of her life to AFB.
• Apple Computer Disability Information
• Books at Amazon.com
  • On Sight & Insight : A Journey into the World of Blindness; John M. Hull
  • Dancing in the Dark : A Guide to Living With Blindness and Visual Impairment
  • Planet of the Blind; Stephen Kuusisto
  • Sight Unseen; Georgina Kleege
  • The Lighthouse Handbook on Vision Impairment and Vision Rehabilitation
    by Barbara Silverstone (Editor), Mary Ann Lang (Editor), Bruce P. Rosenthal
    Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0195094891 This monumental, two-volume work presents -- for the first time -- a comprehensive, interdisciplinary guide to the scientific, clinical, social, educational and policy issues related to the full scope of vision impairment and vision rehabilitation.
• Blind Links: Extensive listing- one the best
• Blind Net: useful and factal information about blindness, links to organizations OF the Blind and those organizations FOR the Blind.
• The Blind and Visually Impaired SiteRing was designed to join together web sites that are run by, for, or about individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
• Blindness Statistics
  • American Foundation for the Blind
  • Lighthouse International
  • National Center for Policy Research for Women & Families
  • National Eye Institute
  • National Federation of the Blind
  • Prevent Blindness.org
  • Univ. of Washington
  • Vision Science Librarians
• Blindskills, Inc. A place where you can find answers and solutions, publishers of Dialogue Magazine.
• Camera Obscura: Gregory Rosmaita's landmark resource on blindness issues and concerns.
• Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped Eligibility Requirements for CBVH - New York State Office of Children & Family Services
• Cornucopia of Disability Information is a vast treasure trove of documents related to disability.
• DimeWeb Children's Resources on Special Needs
• Descriptive Video Service: Making television and movies more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision!
• Films by Lois Siegel: - Strangers in Town-An insight into albinism and Extreme Close-up. Extreme Close-up is a documentary about young adults who are multi-handicapped, but who have one handicap in common: blindness. The film not only confronts what it is like to be blind but also presents these young people as having discovered self-expression through music.
• A History of Publishing for People Who Are Blind
• History of Reading Codes Moon, New York Point, Braille and more
• Music for the Blind: Bill Brown has music courses for a dozen instruments and over 600 individual song lessons in an all-audio format. These courses and lessons are available through the National Library Service or can be purchased on his website at www.MusicForTheBlind.com. He can also be reached at 1-888-778-1828.
• Narrative Television Network (NTN): Founded in 1988 by Jim Stovall, NTN's Emmy award-winning technology has opened television to blind and visually impaired individuals. NTN's full-length motion pictures are reproduced with an additional soundtrack between the existing dialogue to unobtrusively describe costumes, settings, action and other visual elements that are essential to storylines.
• Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation
• Nyi-l This is a mailing listserv for graduates, alumni, staff, past and present, and friends and supporters of the New York Institute for Special Education, (formerly the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind). To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Nyi-l Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, a nonprofit volunteer organization, is the nation's educational library serving people who cannot effectively read standard print because of visual impairment, dyslexia, or other physical disability.
  Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
  National Headquarters
  20 Roszel Road
  Princeton, NJ 08540
  866-732-3585
  custserv@rfbd.org
  http://www.rfbd.org
• TRACE Center:extensive product listings, reports, and software projects
• TravelVision: Offers a wide range of Orientation & Mobility services designed to empower visually impaired individuals to lead active lives. (Glendale, CA)
• UK Piano Page: Association of Blind Piano tuners
• United States Guide Dog Schools
• VICUG NYC: The Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group of New York City - a peer support organization for blind and visually impaired computer users of all skill levels in the New York City area.
• Orientation and Mobility Training: The Way to Go
• The Zenith Tube: Home Of: Red White And Blue.org

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