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960 Grand Avenue
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858-454-2145
www.allaboutvision.com

AllAboutVision.com was launched in January 2000 to provide consumers with an independent source of trustworthy information on eye health and vision correction options. The web site contains information about eye conditions, problems, diseases, and clinical trials.

American Foundation for the Blind
2 Penn Plaza, Suite 1102
New York, NY 10121
800-232-5463 (800-AFB-LINE)
212-502-7600
888-545-8331 (Fax)
E-mail: afbinfo@afb.net

AFB Center on Vision Loss
11030 Ables Lane
Dallas, TX 75229
214-352-7222
E-mail: dallas@afb.net

AFB TECH
949 3rd Avenue, Suite 200
Huntington, WV 25701
304-523-8651
E-mail: AFBTECH@afb.net

Find Technology Information

AFB TECH publishes AccessWorld®: Technology and People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired, AFB's acclaimed online technology magazine. AccessWorld® provides objective information, informed commentary, and cutting-edge news and trends about information technology and visual impairment. Find more information in the Technology section of the AFB web site.

Find Information for Older Adults

The AFB Center on Vision Loss publishes Senior Site®, an online resource center that connects seniors, family members, and caregivers to local services and showcases a wide range of assistive living products available to people with vision loss.

Find Services and Support Groups

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) provides a "Where Can I Find…" database of services in the United States and Canada. The database includes extensive resources, including computer training, rehabilitation services, volunteer services, employment and job training, support groups, and many other helpful areas.

In addition, the American Foundation for the Blind

• Provides services to, and acts as an information clearinghouse for, people who are blind or visually impaired and their families, professionals, organizations, schools, and corporations
• Stimulates research and mounts program initiatives to improve services to blind or visually impaired people
• Publishes a wide variety of professional, reference, and consumer books and videos in the AFB Bookstore

1703 North Beauregard Street, Suite 440
Alexandria, VA 22311
877-492-2708 (Toll free)
703-671-4500
703-671-6391 (Fax)
www.aerbvi.org
Contact AER

The Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) is the only international membership organization dedicated to providing support and assistance to the professionals who work in all phases of education and rehabilitation with adults and children who are blind or have low vision. Membership is comprised of more than 4,000 professionals who provide services to people with visual impairments.

The Low Vision Rehabilitation Division and the Orientation and Mobility Division offer on-line courses for professionals.

For a list of United States chapters of AER, see AER Chapters, state by state.

Blindskills, Inc.
P.O. Box 5181
Salem, OR 97304-0181
800-860-4224 (Toll free)
503-581-4224
503-581-0178 (Fax)
E-mail: info@blindskills.com

The mission of Blindskills, Inc. is to disseminate resources and information to blind and visually impaired people and their families. Blindskills addresses this mission through its toll-free help line, web site, and bi-monthly publication, DIALOGUE: A World of ideas for Visually Impaired People of All Ages, which is available in five formats. Blindskills, Inc. also provides a toll-free number that can be used by anyone in the United States or Canada. 

741 North Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90029
323-663-1111
www.brailleinstitute.org
E-mail: la@brailleinstitute.org
Office locations: Contact Braille Institute

The Braille Institute offers services to help people with limited or no vision lead independent and enriched lives. All programs are free of charge and include the following services:

• An in-home Child Development Program for parents of blind infants and toddlers
• Youth and Career Services
• Counseling and Support Services
• Adaptation to Sight Loss classes
• Low Vision consultations

For adults who can't attend a regional center, many classes are offered in community locations throughout Southern California. Mobile Solutions vehicles travel throughout Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties. Vistas, the retail store, has many practical, adaptive items for sale.

Lighthouse International
111 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022-1202
800-829-0500 (Toll free)
212-821-9200
212-821-9713 (TDD)
E-mail: info@lighthouse.org

Lighthouse International is dedicated to fighting vision loss through prevention, treatment and empowerment. Founded in 1905, Lighthouse International furthers its mission through the following programs and services: Low Vision Center; Vision Rehabilitation Services; The Ethel & Samuel J. LeFrak School; and The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School.

The Lighthouse Store has a wide section of helpful, vision-friendly products. The "Resources" section of the web site provides helpful tips, information, and trusted advice.

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision (RRTC)
108 Herbert - South, Room 150
Industrial Education Department Building
P.O. Drawer 6189
Mississippi State, MS 39762
662-325-2001
662-325-8989 (Fax)
662-325-2964 (Voice/TDD)
www.blind.msstate.edu
E-mail: rrtc@colled.msstate.edu

Find Vision Rehabilitation and Low Vision Information

The mission of the RRTC is to enhance employment and independent living outcomes for individuals who are blind or visually impaired through research, training, education, and dissemination.

The Information and Referral Resource Project provides information and network links by state on the following topics: low vision services, organizations, products, publications, radio reading services, rehabilitation and blindness resources, sports and recreation.

The Business Enterprise Program is a training and entrepreneurial program that teaches individuals who are blind or have low vision to manage and run businesses, most often vending operations, including snack bars and cafeterias in schools, corporate offices, and Federal and state facilities.

Project H.I.R.E. (Hip, Independent and Ready for Employment) is conducting empirical research on transition services that lead to competitive employment outcomes for transition-age individuals with blindness or other visual impairments.

National Federation of the Blind
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
410-659-9314
410-685-5653 (Fax)

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of information that exist."

With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is the largest membership organization of blind people in the United States. The NFB works to improve blind people's lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs that encourage independence and self-confidence. The NFB has affiliates in all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, and over 700 local chapters. In January 2004, the NFB opened the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and training center in the United States for the blind led by the blind. To find the local chapter in your area, go to State Affiliates of the NFB.

Programs and services include:

• The International Braille and Technology Center for the Blind
• NFB-NEWSLINE®
• NFB-LINK®
• Jacobus tenBroek Library
• NFB Scholarship Program
• NFB ShareBraille

105 Judd Street
London WC1H 9NE
England, UK
+44 20 7388 1266
+44 20 7388 2034 (Fax)
www.rnib.org.uk
E-mail: helpline@rnib.org.uk  

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) offers information, support and advice to over two million people in the UK with sight problems.

The RNIB's research library is Europe's largest, most comprehensive, and diverse collection of print and electronic materials covering all aspects of partial sight and blindness. Some materials are also available in braille and audio formats. You can search the online catalog for items in the collection.

The RNIB's online shop sells a variety of accessible products, such as clocks, games, lighting, talking book players, telephones, and publications.