Helpful Organizations 46

Find helpful organizations for parents of children who are blind or visually impaired.
 

Positive Eye: Training and resources for practitioners working with children with vision impairment

Positive Eye was established five years ago to offer a consultancy and training service to professionals and parents on meeting the educational needs of children and young people with visual impairment.

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Get a computer for your blind child!

Computers for the Blind provides computer equipment for families of children who are blind.

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Sensory Sun Resources for Kids Who are Visually Impaired

Sensory Sun Educational Technologies is a website that shares information about raising and teaching children with visual impairments.

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Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society (PCVIS)

The mission of the Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society is to advocate for improvement in the quality of life of children with vision loss due to brain disorder, disease or injury.

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15+ Summer Camps for Blind Kids

There are many annual summer camps your blind or visually impaired child or teenager can attend. We found 15 camps for braille, sports, independence, leadership and more!

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A Shared Vision: Resources for Inherited Retinal Diseases

Spark Therapeutics has launched a new website designed to help patients, caregivers and health care professionals better understand inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) and the importance of genetic testing.

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Insightful Publications

Insightful Publications is a website designed to make state handbooks and the information they contain accessible via screen readers.

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5 years ago More
 

10 Users You Should Be Following On Twitter if You’re the Parent of a Child with Visual Impairments

Are you the parent of a blind child? Are you on Twitter? You should be! We'll help you get started by showing you who you should follow.

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h-a-t-c-h brings your ideas for your special needs child to life!

Hatch is a website where little ideas can make a big difference to kids with special needs. It is open to ideas and inventions from anyone, anywhere who wants to help children with special needs.

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NewView Oklahoma

NewView Oklahoma is an Oklahoma City-based nonprofit that focuses on helping people who are blind and visually impaired.

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6 years ago More
 

Thomas Marshall Does It All

Thomas is visually impaired and Jessica writes about the trials and successes of raising a little boy who is blind, while always focusing on the positive.

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Teaching Students with Visual Impairments

This is a web resource designed for all teachers and related service personnel who are involved in educating students with visual impairments, but it is also full of great resources for parents of blind children as well.

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The Vision of Children Foundation

The Vision of Children is a California organization dedicated to curing hereditary childhood blindness and other vision disorders and to improve the lives of visually impaired children and their families.

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National Eye Institute

The National Eye Institute has primary responsibility within the National Institutes of Health for supporting and conducting research aimed at improving the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of eye diseases.

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8 years ago More
 

Blind Skills Videos

The Washington State School for the Blind has created a series of videos describing how to do simple tasks with little or no vision, such as how to zip a zipper, shave, or tie a shoe.

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9 years ago More