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- Health/ Conditions and Diseases/ Communication Disorders/ Deafblindness@ (9)
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- AccessDome - Resources for the blind. A web portal designed to enhance vision impaired and print restricted access to the web.
www.accessdome.com
- Artificial Vision for the Blind - The Dobelle Institute and Institut Dobelle AG announce development of an artificial vision system providing independent mobility to blind people.
www.artificialvision.com
- Aspire Consultancy - Helping visually impaired people to aspire to their full potential through the provision of quality advice and training on appropriate specialist technology.
www.aspire-consultancy.co.uk
- Blackburn and District Blind Society - A registered charity for the visually impaired and blind, babies and adults.
www.blackburnblind.org.uk
- Blind Related Links - Contains extensive listings of blindness related links on the internet.
seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html
- Blindness Emailing Lists - Subscribe to blindness-related emailing lists and pan-disability and access-issues lists directly from this comprehensive hypertext index.
www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blist.html
- Blindskills, Inc. - Offers solutions and answers to questions regarding blindness, visual impairment and vision loss.
www.blindskills.com
- Charles Bonnet Syndrome - Characterized by visual hallucinations in people who have a sudden change in vision such as that brought on by macular degeneration or serious sight loss.
www.rnib.org.uk/info/cbsfin.htm
- Charles Bonnet Syndrome - American Foundation for the Blind - Article describing the visual hallucinations associated with this condition.
www.afb.org/JVIB/JVIB940906.asp
- Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted - Provides assorted information and resources for visually impaired people.
www.csbps.com
- Ellen Bomer - Survivor - The story of Ellen Bomer's recovery. After being blinded in the 1998 US Embassy Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya Ellen is still working toward recovering her lost eyesight.
ellen-bomer.com
- Empower Connection - Technology for the Blind - A site dedicated to helping blind or visually impaired individuals, and the people who work with them, use assistive Internet technology.
ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/specialed/Empowerconnection/index.htm
- Envision - Flash presentation on the research at the Duke University Eye Center to eliminate blindness.
www.dukeeye.org/envision/index.html
- Keystone View Optical Division - Design vision screeners and optical tests.
www.keystoneview.com
- Lenny McHugh's Home Page - Inspiring and motivational real-life stories from Lenny, who is a retired blind computer programmer. Includes links to many other resources for the blind.
www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh
- Lighthouse International - Worldwide organization dedicated to overcoming vision impairment through rehabilitation, education, research and advocacy.
www.lighthouse.org
- Louis Database - Database of accessible materials for people who are blind or visually impaired. Contains information about more than 145,000 titles of accessible materials, including braille, large print, sound recordings, and computer files from over 200 agencies throughout the United States.
www.aph.org/louis.htm
- National Agenda for Blind and Visually Impaired Youths - Website for families, medical and educational personnel regarding the education of children who are blind.
www.obs.org/napa.html
- National Federation of the Blind - Resources for the blind.
www.nfb.org
- Parents of Blind and Visually Impaired Children - A resource page for parents of blind or visually impaired children created by a mother of a blind child. Included are links to adaptive technology sites, braille childrens books and blind organizations.
www.parentingtheblind.org
- Perceptual Alternatives - Theory and practice of using electronic travel aids in conjunction with other methods.
ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au/~heyes
- Pittsburgh Vision Services - Provides instruction in access technology devices for visually impaired.
www.pghvis.org/rehab.html
- Recording For The Blind and Dyslexic - Educational library for people with print disabilities, with a 77,000-title library of taped textbooks, reference and professional materials for people who cannot read standard print because of a disability.
www.rfbd.org
- Savon Condition Center - A comprehensive blindness information site.
www.savonblindness.com
- Talking Software - Offers a word speech enabled dictionary and thesaurus for blind users. All controls are designed with unsighted user in mind.
www.talkingsoftware.gothere.uk.com
- The Eye - Information on low vision and blindness. Includes what to do when meeting a person with vision impairment, the signs of vision loss, legal blindness, braille and other health related links.
www.99main.com/~charlief/Blindness.htm
- The Voice - Translates images from a camera into sounds that one hears via stereo headphones and targetting vision substitution for the totally blind.
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_Meijer
- Travel Vision - Orientation and mobility services for the visually impaired, blindness resources, e-zines and legal consulting.
kathyz.home.mindspring.com
- VICUG-L - A visually impaired computer users' group list. Search the archives and join from this site.
maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html
- Video Description by Narrative Television Network - Makes movies and television programming accessible to blind and visually impaired people through narration.
www.narrativetv.com
- Vis-Ability - Supplies electronic aids for the visually impaired.
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Vis_Ability/homepage.htm
- Vision of Children Foundation - Working towards the eradication of hereditary childhood blindness, ocular albinism and other blindness.
www.visionofchildren.org
- Vision World Wide - Provides information, education, guidance and support, not only to the blind and visually impaired, but to the many professionals (medical, social and technical) who serve them.
www.visionww.org
- Wisconsin Blind and Physically Handicapped Readers - A source of information about books and reading, blindness and other disabilities and library services for the blind and physically handicapped.
www.execpc.com/~wgraczyk/blndrdrs.html
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