Blindness Resources

Community Based Service Organization

Bronx Independent Living Services (BILS) is a non-profit, community based organization dedicated to empower all people with disabilities to understand and exercise their civil and human rights in order to live fully integrated lives in mainstream society. BILS assists individuals by providing them the necessary tools to make informed decisions about their own lives through access to education, skills development, and access to the appropriate resources.

Bronx Independent Living Services, Inc.
4419 Third Avenue, Suite 2C
Bronx, NY 10457
Telephone: 718-515-2800
Fax: 718-515-2844
TTY: 718-515-2803
VP: 866-426-8059
www.bils.org

General Information

Guide Dog Information

Guide Dog Users, Inc. (GDUI) is an international organization dedicated to advocacy, peer support, public education and all aspects of training, working and living with dogs specially-trained to guide blind and visually-impaired people.
UNITED STATES GUIDE DOG SCHOOLS
AFB's List of Guide Dog Schools
NFB's List of Guide Dog Schools
International Guide Dog Federation
Basic guidelines regarding Guide Dog access and etiquette
more on etiquette

Literacy Resources

Orientation and Mobility Resources

Media Resources

Blindskills, Inc . A place where you can find answers and solutions, publishers of Dialogue Magazine.
Descriptive Video Service: Making television and movies more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision.
Media Access Group at WGBH
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.
NFB-Newsline® is the equivalent of a news stand, but one that is available over your telephone. Created by the National Federation of the Blind, NFB-Newsline makes it possible for people with vision loss to read hundreds of different newspapers and dozens of magazines from any telephone.

New York State Office of Children & Family Services Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped