Visual Disabilities & Blindness:

• American Academy of Ophthalmology
  Eye professionals providing information on eye health care, consumer advocacy, and public service.
  
  
• American Council of the Blind
  Membership organization of blind and visually impaired people that provides services that includes a Jobs Bank, resources, and advocacy.
  
  
• American Foundation for the Blind
  Agency dedicated to addressing the critical issues of literacy, independent living, employment, and access through technology for people who are blind or visually impaired.
  
  
• American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery/American Society of Ophthalmic Administrators
  Includes links to the latest information on eye care, medical developments, advocacy activities, consumer products, and publications.
  
  
• Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
  Architecturally barrier-free lending library. This full-service library includes comfortable reading rooms, large circulating collections of special format materials, audio playback equipment for listening to recorded books and magazines, and a variety of other electronic reading aids.
  
  
• Blinded Veterans Association
  Organization specifically established to promote the welfare of blinded veterans.
  
  
• Blindness Resource Center
  Includes links to resources on access, blindness, braille history, braille literacy, deaf-blind, disabilities and more.
  
  
• Computer Center for the Visually Impaired, Baruch College, The City University of New York
  Offers non-credit computer classes for beginners and experienced users who need synthetic speech, large print, and braille adaptive technology.
  
  
• eSight Careers Network
  A great place to find the perfect job. Also offers helpful hits and articles on finding a job.
  
  
• Glaucoma Foundation
  Clearinghouse of information, including referrals, public service announcements, medical developments, and links to related topics.
  
  
• Helen Keller Services for the Blind
  Provides services to blind and visually impaired seniors, including Elderly Vision Screening and Social Integration for Seniors.
  
  
• International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI)
  ICDRI is a United States non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization. Its mission is to compile outstanding disability resources. Also includes calendar of disability events around the world.
  
  
• JBI International
  Formerly The Jewish Braille Institute of America, JBI helps men, women and children around the world who are blind, visually impaired, reading disabled and physically handicapped, to integrate into their community and society in general.
  
  
• Jewish Guild for the Blind, The
  The Jewish Guild for the Blind (The Guild) is one of the country's foremost vision care agencies. The Guild has been assists visually impaired, blind and multi-disabled people of all ages through a wide range of programs designed to support and enhance physical, emotional and intellectual functioning. The Guild is nonsectarian.
  
  
• Lighthouse Inc.
  Services, programs, and products for the blind and visually disabled.
  
  
• Louis Braille Center
  The Louis Braille Center supplies a guide to braille books for children and adults, a Saturday program for children who are blind or visually impaired, and an information section for schoolchildren interested in learning about braille.
  
  
• Macular Degeneration Foundation
  Information about the disease, newsletter, and useful links.
  
  
• National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH)
  Comprehensive information for people with low vision, including a Low Vision Aids department and links to other agencies and services.
  
  
• National Eye Institute
  For researchers, health care professionals, educators, the media, and the general public.
  
  
• National Federation of the Blind
  Membership organization that helps blind persons achieve self-confidence and self-respect by providing services that include information and referral, scholarships, public education, and advocacy.
  
  
• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
  Government agency responsible for administering a national program to provide reading materials for blind and physically handicapped individuals and U.S. citizens living abroad. The program furnishes books, magazines, and music scores and texts produced in raised characters, in sound recordings, and in other suitable forms.
  
  
• New England Eye Center
  Eye care facility, website contains information on eye conditions.
  
  
• New York State Office of Children & Family Services Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped
  The New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (CBVH) provides vocational rehabilitation and other direct services to blind and visually impaired New York State residents, including children, adults, and elderly persons.
  
  
• Prevent Blindness America
  Dedicated to saving sight, this foundation offers public and professional education and community services. The website includes a newsletter.
  
  
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
  Library contains more than 80,000 taped textbooks in a variety of subjects, from literature and history to math and the sciences, at all academic levels from kindergarten through postgraduate.
  
  
• Steen-Hall Eye Institute
  Website of a medical facility in Louisanna that provides information on eyes, eye care, and eye conditions.