Literacy Training for Blind/Low Vision Learners
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Provides links to information about braille and literacy issues and information for parents and teachers.
A guide to over 700 pages of useful sites and articles about home education.
The Bookstore: Braille Subjects
Provides links to a variety of textbooks dealing with braille.
Published by The Braille Revival League, this site lists internet web sites on the subject of braille.
Braille Resources for Parents, Teachers and Students
This site offers suggestions on the teaching braille to children.
Braille Through Remote Learning
This service provides an online instruction program for teachers, parents, social workers and current/future braille transcribers with a series of three integrated online courses in braille and braille transcribing.
Early Intervention Training Center for Infants and Todlers with Visual Impairments
The mission of this five-year project is to develop resources that build the capacity of colleges and universities to prepare personnel to serve infants and toddlers with visual impairments and their families.
History of Reading Codes for the Blind (link coming soon)
This site describes the many different types of embossed letters that have been used as reading codes throughout history. This informative site is maintained by the New York Institute for Special Education.
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
NLS administers a free library program of braille and recorded materials circulated to eligible borrowers.
Project EASI is part of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology. This site posts developments in in the adaptive technology field and gives visitors access to Webcasts, workshops, publications, and news.
Resource Roundup for Parents of Blind Children
This site provides articles and books that have been written for parents and teachers of children with visual impairments.
Resources for Parents and Teachers of Blind Kids (link coming soon)
This site provides a variety of information and resources mainly focused on home schooling.
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
This is a national educational library for those with print disabilities.
Summer Camp for Blindness and Visual Impairments
Summer Independent Computer Literacy Training Camp for youths ages 16 to 19 sponsored by the Division of Rehabilitation-Education Services of the University of Illinois for students with disabilities. The summer camp is specifically designed for participants with visual impairments to develop independent computer literacy skills and to explore the possibilities of post-secondary education.
The mission of Vision Associates is to assist in identification of vision deficits in support of the earliest possible intervention, thus improving the quality of life for children and adults. To achieve this mission, Vision Associates Distributes quality vision tests and materials, and provides vision assessment workshops.
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