Resources

• Information About Braille
  
• Information About Eye Conditions and Vision
  
• Other Sources of Braille Materials for Children
  
• Helpful Organizations and Agencies
  
• Other Good Resource Lists
• Fun Stuff

Information About Braille

Dots for Families: a site with lots of information about braille

Information about braille from the American Foundation for the Blind

Information about braille from Duxbury Systems

Tips on promoting your child's braille literacy skills from AFB

Information about braille technology from AFB

Information about Louis Braille from RNIB

Information about Helen Keller from AFB

Information about Helen Keller from RNIB

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Information About Eye Conditions and Vision

Information about blindness and low vision from AFB

Information about eye care and vision impairments

The Low Vision Gateway

ROPARD: information about Retinopathy of Prematurity including information about a great resource book called "A Parents' Guide to the Development of their Child with Retinopathy of Prematurity."

VisionConnection: Your connection to vision information and an accessible community for people who are partially sighted or blind.

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Other Sources of Braille Materials for Children

The American Printing House for the Blind

Braille Bibles International
(Braille Bibles including a Twin Vision Children's Bible)

The Braille Institute

Lutheran Braille Workers for free braille Bibles and other Christian material in many languages

The National Braille Press: Children's Book of the Month Club & other books

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Walking Along With My Dog book & CD
Walking Along With My Dog" is a fun-loving book about a little girl named Iris and her guide dog, Seemore.

List of Sources of Braille Children's Books and Magazines

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Helpful Organizations and Agencies

American Council of the Blind

The American Foundation for the Blind

Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired

Blind Babies Foundation

Blind Children's Fund: information for parents and professionals

Blind Children's Learning Center

The Canadian National Institute for the Blind

The Foundation Fighting Blindness

The Foundation for Blind Children

Guide Dogs for the Blind

Hadley School for the Blind (correspondence courses re: braille etc.)

Helen Keller National Center

Independent Living Aids: low vision aids, braille games and watches, etc.

Jewish Guild for the Blind's National Tele-Support Network
On-going telephone support groups for parents of children with visual impairment.

Kansas Braille Transcription Institute Braille courses, and tactile American flags

Lighthouse International

Michigan Commission for the Blind

The National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments

The National Braille Association

The National Federation of the Blind

National Association for Visually Handicapped

Perkins School for the Blind

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic

Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired

The Royal National Institute for the Blind, UK

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Other Good Resource Lists

Resource Roundup for Parents of Blind Children

The Visually Impaired Information Center has hundreds of helpful links.

Online resources about combined vision and hearing loss.

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Fun Stuff

BRAILLEiant: Personalized braille necklaces and T-shirts

BumpyName Labels: Personalized (in print & braille) orbit labels for drink containers, etc.

Christiansen Designs: a producer of braille jewelry

Pip Squeakers: fun baby and toddler shoes that motivate with sound!

Tack-Tiles: fun Lego-type blocks with braille on them!

Uncle Goose Toys: braille alphabet blocks

Wikki Stix: waxy sticks which can be easily bent into shapes...great for tactile graphics, etc.

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