In recognition of the difficult economic times that many visitors and agencies are experiencing at present, VisionAWARE is happy to announce a summer discount on its Online Education Center courses. The discounts are as follows:

June is Home Safety Month. Learn more about home modifications for people with vision loss, including a comprehensive home safety checklist and information about color, contrast, and lighting considerations for every room in your home:

• Home Modifications for People who are Blind or Have Low Vision
• Our Home and Environmental Evaluation Questionnaire
• Room-by-Room: Evaluate and Modify Your Home Environment

• Summer Discount on Our Online Environmental Assessment Course: This course provides unique insights on assessing and modifying your surroundings to cope with vision loss. It delves into the role vision plays in interpreting your environment in regard to lighting, measurement, color and contrast. It also covers distance and time factors; signage and lettering; universal design; and the essential checklists people need for independent living with vision loss.

June 30 is your last day to have your gift to VisionAWARE automatically matched dollar for dollar.

Thanks to our gift-matching award from Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation, your generous support has helped VisionAWARE raise over $30,000 so far! We need your continued contributions so we can bring VisionAWARE to you in 2011! Your dollar increases opportunities for our visitors to reach out for vision rehabilitation services.

People with vision loss need not be in the dark about invaluable resources! Support VisionAWARE!

From Our Visitors

“I recently became acquainted with VisionAWARE via Twitter and was interested in the blogs that are made available through your site for and by visually impaired people … I really appreciate all your efforts as a nonprofit; as a visually impaired person, it is so comforting to find so many resources in this technologically driven day and age! Thanks so much!” ~ Laura Lawson (Select this link to visit Laura's blog!)

“I was literally lying in my bed in the middle of the night last night thinking about how grateful I am for your web site, as I can’t remember everything, even though I have previously learned it, done it, etc. Thank you soooo much for the effort put into the site.”” ~ Julie Adkins, MA, CVRT, Metrolina Association for the Blind (Select this link to find organizations like Julie's!)

We love our WalkSafe™ umbrella with our VisionAWARE imprint and message! In our national outreach campaign to make AWARE a “household word,” ASMS Products recommended this special umbrella with reflective material to keep people with low vision visible to vehicles while showing off our VisionAWARE logo and message.

ASMS Products works with organizations and businesses that serve people who are blind, partially sighted, or vision impaired. They offer custom designed and imprinted products appropriate for this market, as well as special co-op pricing to make their products affordable to organizations of all sizes.

While some of their products can be seen on the ASMS web site at www.logoitemsnow.com, most products and special co-op pricing are only available through their e-newsletters. Phone: 800-329-3650

About Us

Associates for World Action in Rehabilitation & Education (AWARE) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit social service organization. VisionAWARE is a "Self-Help for Vision Loss" web site that includes Questions & Answers on a wide range of topics, including eye diseases and disorders, home management, home modification, reading and writing, personal care and grooming, recreational activities, crafts, braille, computers and technology, and helpful services and resources.

For more information, e-mail Maureen A. Duffy, Editorial Director, or Anne Yeadon, Executive Director.

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