77 Powder Mill Road
Unit #4
Acton, MA 01720
800-681-5909 (Toll free)
253-595-3623 (Fax)
www.abisee.com
E-mail: info@abisee.com

ABISee is a developer of hi-tech products and assistive reading and magnification devices for people who are blind, have low vision, and are deaf-blind.

65-B Town Hall Square
Falmouth, MA 02540
508-540-0800
508-548-6116 (Fax)
http://home.capecod.net/~braillinc
E-mail: braillinc@capecod.net

Braille Co., Inc., is a professional braille publishing company that specializes in transcription services for vocational and educational needs.

Braille Co., Inc. is capable of transcribing all languages using the Roman, Greek, or Cyrillic alphabet into literary, mathematics, computer, or music braille and can produce textbooks, workbooks, computer manuals, training guides, complex regulatory manuals, schedules, charts, graphs, and tables.

770 Centre Street
Newton, MA 02458
800-852-3131 (Toll free)
617-969-6200
www.carroll.org  
E-mail: info@carroll.org  

The Carroll Center serves the needs of blind and visually impaired persons by providing rehabilitation, skills training, and educational opportunities to achieve independence, self-sufficiency, and self-fulfillment and by educating the public regarding the potential of persons who are blind and visually impaired.

Established in 1936, the Center has pioneered innovative methods for blind persons to gain independence in their homes, in class settings, and in their work places. New and evolving technologies, combined with time-tested adaptive methods, individualized instruction, and personalized therapies developed by the Carroll Center staff, have provided thousands of blind and vision impaired persons with diverse opportunities for success and independent living.

Carroll Tech is a web-based distance learning service intended to assist blind and visually impaired individuals, as well as to train education and rehabilitation professionals. Instruction is offered in access technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, braille embossers, note-takers, and scanners. Each course is comprised of text, videos, exercises, quizzes, and chat sessions.

23 East Brundreth Street
Springfield, MA 01109
413-781-2274
www.choroideremia.org
E-mail contacts

The Choroideremia Research Foundation, Inc. is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds to find a treatment or cure for Choroideremia, a rare inherited retinal degenerative disease that causes blindness.

Meet Josh Crary, a 23-year-old senior and resident advisor at the University of New Hampshire who also has CHM.

169 Merrimack Street, 2nd Floor
Lowell, MA 01852
978-454-5704
www.lowellassociationfortheblind.org
E-mail: labinfo@lowellassociationfortheblind.org

Lowell Association for the Blind (LAB) is a non-profit, community-based organization that is dedicated to working with people who are blind and visually impaired.

Programs and services include:

• Youth program for blind and visually impaired children, ages 5 to 14
• Senior youth program for blind and visually impaired youth ages 15 to 21
• Adult programs meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at LAB for variety of activities including crafts, field trips, guest speakers, community information and resources, cooking demonstrations, and adaptive equipment demonstrations. 
• LAB Radio Reading Service is a radio station that provides the reading of daily newspapers by local volunteers. 
• Low vision and adaptive equipment
• Training programs for adaptive equipment, computers, the Internet, and software programs
• Information and referral services
• Retrievers Beep Baseball Team

200 Ivy Street
Brookline, MA 02446
617-738-5110
617-738-1247 (Fax)
www.mabcommunity.org
E-mail: webmaster@mabcommunity.org  

Founded in 1903, MAB Community Services is the oldest social service agency in the country providing services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Since that time, MAB has broadened its scope to include services for adults with developmental disabilities and adolescents with brain injuries.

MAB offers a multidisciplinary rehabilitation approach to helping elders, adults, and adolescents with disabilities live full and meaningful lives in their communities:

• Brain Injury Services: Comprehensive educational and treatment services to adolescents overcoming the challenges imposed by brain injury or other neurological difficulties
• Developmental Disability Community Services: Supports in a range of residential and vocational settings
• Vision Community Services: Through peer, professional and volunteer support, people with vision impairments gain the skills and spirit of independent living.
• MABWorks: A vocational training program

48 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116-4718
800-392-6450 (Voice toll free MA only)
617-727-5550
800-392-6556 (TDD toll free MA only)
617-626-7685 (Fax)
www.mass.gov/mcb
E-mail contacts

Programs and services include:

• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Independent Living Social Services
• Assistive Technology for the Blind Program
• Specialized Services for Specific Populations
• Rehabilitation Teaching
• Orientation and Mobility
• Medical Assistance 
• Vending Facility Program
• Ferguson Industries for the Blind
• Consumer Assistance and Program Support (CAPS)

Healthy Aging, Health and Disability Unit
250 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02108
617-624-5070
617-624-5992 (TTY)
617-624-5075 (Fax)
E-mail: anita.albright@state.ma.us

The Office of Healthy Aging of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health fosters healthy aging for the Commonwealth's population by planning, advocating, coordinating and administering programs and policies that assure access to quality health care and enhance opportunities for older people to learn about and take responsibility for their own health.

243 Charles Street
Boston, MA 02114
617-523-7900
617-523-5498 (TDD)
www.meei.harvard.edu

The Vision Rehabilitation Center
www.meei.harvard.edu/shared/ophtho/low.php
617-573-4177

Services include:

• A comprehensive low vision evaluation
• Information about beneficial visual aids, ranging from simple magnifiers to innovative optical devices or technologies, video camera magnifiers, or computers with magnification or speech output 
• Training in using residual vision
• In-home daily living skills training

Administrative Offices
27 Wormwood Street
Boston, MA 02210-1616
800-245-6543 (Voice/TDD)
617-204-3600
617-727-1354 (Fax)
www.mass.gov/mrc
Contact information

The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission is responsible for Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Community Services, and eligibility determination for the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) federal benefits programs.

National Braille Press
88 St. Stephen Street
Boston, MA 02115
888-965-8965 (Toll free)
617-266-6160
617-437-0456 (Fax)

National Braille Press (NBP) is a nonprofit braille printer and publisher offering braille books, magazines, textbooks, tests, and customized embossing services.

The National Braille Press Bookstore has books for adults and children, print books for sighted teachers and parents, and braille gifts. 

Everything Braille provides sources of braille publications, adaptive technology, tactile graphics, braille fun and games, and braille music.

Vision Rehabilitation Service
Tufts University School of Medicine
260 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02111
800-231-3316 (Toll free)
617-636-4600
617-636-4866 (Fax)
Web site

The Vision Rehabilitation Service provides a complete low vision evaluation that determines visual function under various conditions and assesses each patient's visual requirements for work or home activities.

Additional services include:

• Selection of electronic visual aids
• A Pediatric Vision Rehabilitation Program, including specialized low vision evaluation and rehabilitation for children and adolescents
• A consulting service regarding driving rehabilitation or driving cessations, as needed.

940 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
617-262-2020
www.ne-eyeinstitute.org

The New England Eye Institute is a network of eye care centers and programs that reach out to the community with tailored programs for diverse populations.

The network features a range of programs for special populations such as children, the elderly, the homeless, and individuals who are either physically or mentally challenged.

New England Eye's doctors provide eye care to a wide range of populations at 44 health care facilities located throughout Massachusetts.

Perkins School for the Blind
175 North Beacon Street
Watertown, MA 02472
617-924-3434
E-mail: info@perkins.org

The Perkins Scout is a comprehensive resource for information about blindness and visual impairments. Topics include general information on blindness, resources for persons who are 55+, help for families, cooking and kitchen safety, gardening, orientation and mobility, adjusting to blindness, transition, and many other resources for educators and other professionals.

22 Bonad Road
Winchester, MA 01890
781-368-9094
781-368-9096 (Fax)
www.rfr.org 
E-mail: info@rfr.org

Publishes a wide range of publications that enable people with disabilities and chronic conditions to remain independent:

• Individuals with a disability or chronic condition
• The parent of a child with a disability
• The adult offspring of an older parent with one or more disabilities
• A professional service provider

Also produces a series of large print materials designed for distribution to clients and patients.

Low Vision Rehabilitation
39 Cross Street, Suite 109
Peabody, MA 01960
978-532-3303
978-532-4396 (Fax)
www.schepens.com  
E-mail: sraf@schepensretina.org

P.O. Box 414
87 School Street
West Dennis, MA 02670
800-427-6842 (Toll free MA only)
508-394-3904
www.sightloss.org
E-mail: sightloss@verizon.net

Sight Loss Services, Inc., Cape Cod and Islands (Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket) is a non-profit, human service organization offering peer support, information and referral, education and awareness, outreach, and home independence training to people who are learning to cope and function safely and independently with the loss of sight.

Based on a “peer support and self-help” philosophy, Sight Loss Services aims to foster an individual's sense of self-worth and independence and to point the way for him/her to help others.

Sight Loss Service’s programs include:

• Self-Help Support Groups
• Adaptive Aids
• Information and Referral
• Education and Awareness
• Outreach and Independence Services

464 Hillside Avenue, Suite 205
Needham, MA 02494
781-726-7337
781-726-7333 (Appointments)
www.bostonsight.org
E-mail: info@bostonsight.org

Our mission is to advance our development of sight-restoring contact lens devices for people visually disabled by corneal diseases and to make them available to all who can benefit from their use regardless of their ability to pay or where they live.

333 Elm Street
Dedham, MA 02026
800-793-9227 (Toll free)
781-461-8200
781-461-8213 (Fax)
www.tobiiati.com
E-mail: customercare@tobiiati.com

Tobii Assistive Technology, Inc. (Tobii ATI) is a developer of innovative hardware and software solutions for people with disabilities, including eye tracking and eye control products and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) solutions that help individuals with speech impairments communicate.

Digital Audio Books for the Blind
Tom Peters, Project Coordinator
6106 South Stillhouse Road
Oak Grove, MO 64075
816-616-6746
www.unabridged.info
E-mail: tpeters@tapinformation.com
State contact information: www.unabridged.info/contact.htm

Unabridged provides narrated downloadable digital audio books for eligible individuals living in California, Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, and Vermont who are blind, visually impaired, or physically challenged.

The goal of Unabridged is to develop and evaluate a multi-state program that provides a downloadable library of narrated digital audio book content and services to blind, low vision, and physically challenged library users in the participating states.

The Unabridged collection contains thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles. Current popular fiction is the strength of the collection. There are books for children, tweens, and teens, as well as old-time radio programs.

132 Turnpike Road, Suite 300
Southborough, MA 01772
303-663-2600
www.worldteamsports.org
E-mail: jeffmessner@worldteamsports.org

World T.E.A.M. Sports is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to creating opportunities for individuals of all abilities through the power of sports. By bringing athletes of all cultures, with and without disabilities together as one TEAM, World T.E.A.M. enables fully inclusive TEAMS to accomplish a wide range of sports goals.