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- Pavis Foundation for Visually Impaired People - The Pavis Foundation for visually impaired people is the umbrella organisation for all visually impaired people. It was set up to encompass two groups - Pathfinders and Visage.
- Stockton Blind People's Voice - Improving access for blind and visually impaired people. Offers a free Braille greeting card service and transport information system to aid the blind and visually impaired.
- Visual Impairment Scotland - A national organisation of people who work in the area of visual impairment to help visually impaired children and their parents. Information about their activities.
- St. Lucy Day School for Children with Visual Impairments - Serving visually impaired students grades pre-k through eighth grade. History of the school, events calendar, and a description of their curriculum. Philadelphia.
- Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired - Center for educational services for all blind and visually impaired students in Texas. School calendars, enrollment information, and descriptions of their programs. Austin.
- Tennessee School for the Blind - State Department of Education residential and day school located in Nashville, serving visually impaired K-12 students and providing resources to the blind and visually impaired community across the state.
- California School for the Blind - Provides comprehensive educational services to students of California who are visually impaired, deaf/blind, and visually impaired/multi-handicapped from infancy through age 21. These services will be provided in order to empower students to lead vocationally, personally, and socially satisfying productive lives leading to their highest level of independence.
- Visual Impairment Centre for Teaching And Research - Carries out research, teaching and training, and provides advice and resources in the area of visual impairment and education. Birmingham based. News and project details.
- Playback - Offers a library of taped reading materials for the blind and visually impaired. also transcription services. Includes playback tape library and links of visual and blind interest.
- Arizona Center For The Blind and Visually lmpaired - Services are available to adults who are either legally blind or visually impaired as well as those who have a degenerative eye condition which may eventually become a visual impairment.
Wikipedia Articles
- Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired - The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a special public school, in the continuum of statewide placements for students aged 6 through 12 who are visually impaired.
- South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired - The South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (SDSBVI) is a state-supported school located in Aberdeen, South Dakota that provides services to meet the educational needs of sensory impaired children from birth through twenty-one in South Dakota. SDSBVI is governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents.
- Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired - The Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired (NCECBVI), is located in Nebraska City, Nebraska. It was founded in 1875 and serves children from infancy to age 21.
- GPS for the visually impaired - There have been many attempts at integrating Global Positioning System into a navigation-assistance system for the blind. GPS was introduced in the late 1980s and since then there have been several research projects such as MoBIC, Drishti, and Brunel Navigation System for the Blind, NOPPA, BrailleNote GPS and Trekker.
- Screen magnifier - A screen magnifier is software that interfaces with a computer's graphical output to present enlarged screen content. It is a type of assistive technology suitable for visually impaired people with some functional vision; visually impaired people with little or no functional vision usually use a screen reader.