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Lighthouse International
111 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Toll-free: 800-334-5497
Phone: 212-821-9200
Fax: 212-821-9705
Internet site: http://www.lighthouse.org
E-mail: info@lighthouse.org
Serves as a clearinghouse for information on vision and aging and on hearing impairment and aging. Offers educational materials for consumers and professionals. Promotes the improvement of service delivery to sensory-impaired older people.
National Alliance of Blind Students
Suite 1004
1155 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
Toll-free: 800-424-8666 from 2:30-5:30 pm
Phone: 202-467-5081
Fax: 202-467-5085
E-mail: infor@acb.org
Internet site: http://www.acb.org
National Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired, Inc.
P.O. Box 317
Watertown, MA 02272-0317
Toll-free: 800-562-6265
Fax: 617-972-7444
E-mail: napvi@perkins.org
Internet site: www.napvi.org
Addresses the needs of parents and families of children who are visually impaired, provides information about care, treatment, and quality services.
NAVH provides information, referral and direct services. Direct services include offering a free loan library of large print books by mail, offering a wide variety of visual aids in visual aids rooms in New York and San Francisco, and offering counsel and guidance to adults with partial vision and their families and to families and children with partial vision. NAVH acts as a clearinghouse of information for all services available to partially seeing people from federal, state, and local government agencies and from private sources. NAVH publishes materials not available elsewhere concerning the problems encountered by people with partial vision. It publishes two newsletters in large print, one for children and one for adults. Most information is provided in large print. A membership program is available allowing subscribers discounts on services.
Responds to requests for information about diabetes and its complications, and distributes information to health professionals, people with diabetes and their families, and the general public. Publications include information packets, NDIC fact sheets, The Diabetes Dictionary, and Directory of Diabetes Organizations, some in Spanish.
National Federation of the Blind
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
Phone: 410-659-9314
Toll-free job opportunities: 800-414-5748
Internet site: http://www.nfb.org
E-mail: nfb@nfb.org
In New Jersey:
National Federation of the Blind - New Jersey
Joe Ruffalo, State President
254 Spruce St.
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
phone: 973-743-0075; 1-866-632-1940
NFB's National Blindness Information Center attempts to answer by phone or mail, any questions about blindness and the rights of people who are blind. NFB acts as a legislative resource for its state chapters and serves as advocate in discrimination cases for people who are blind. NFB publishes a monthly magazine, The Braille Monitor, which reports on problems, progress, activities and new technologies related to blindness, and it is available in large print, cassette, Braille and diskette. Future Reflections is a quarterly magazine for parents and educators of children who are blind and is available in print or on cassette. Voice of the Diabetic is published quarterly by the Diabetes Division of NFB and is available in print or on cassette.
POBC-NJ provides support, information, referrals, training, and advocacy to parents
and teachers of blind/visually impaired children. The group helps blind/VI
children grow up to be productive, fully functioning, independent members of
society by providing practical information, networking and contact with
other families and blind adults, and teaching a positive attitude toward blindness
and the abilities of blind people. The organization is also dedicated to providing
ideas, assistance, and information that will help blind/VI children with additional
disabilities reach their potential.
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children (NOPBC)
1800 Johnson St.
Baltimore MD 21230
410-659-9314
www.nfb.org/nopbc
For more information, see the listing for NFB - Parents of Blind Children
National Rehabilitation Information Center
Information Specialist
4200 Forbes Blvd.., Suite 202
Lanham, MD 20706
Toll-free: 800-346-2742
Fax & TTY: 301-459-4263
Internet site: www.naric.com
E-mail address: narcinfo@heitechservices.com
State agency providing various services to blind and visually impaired residents of New Jersey: orientation and mobility training, home instruction programs, prevocational evaluation, rehabilitation center, deaf-blind services, vocational training and job placement follow-up services. Textbook and materials center, technical aids center. Camp Marcella is sponsored by the Commission for the Blind.
Internet site: New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
New Jersey Council on Special Transportation see NJ COST
New Jersey Foundation for the Blind
18 Green Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: 973-623-3937
Camp/Training Center
230 Diamond Spring Road, P.O. Box 929
Denville, NJ 07834
Phone: 201-627-0055
Parents of Blind Children see NFB - Parents of Blind Children
POBC-NJ see NFB - Parents of Blind Children
Lends recorded educational and professional books at all academic levels from late elementary through graduate school and beyond. Services are available to persons with a verified visual, physical, or specific learning disability that substantially limits reading. A registration fee of $75 is required of all applicants and $25.00 annually thereafter. Also sells electronic books, called E-Text, on computer disk.
Recordings for Recovery
5103 Eastman Place, Suite 101
Midland, Michigan 48640-0261
Phone: 800-798-1192
Internet site: www@r4r.org
E-mail: staff@r4r.org
Recordings for Recovery provides a broad selection of musical programs. It acts as a lending library. Up to 8 tapes may be borrowed for sixty days. Its library includes categories of music starting from the 1900's to the present, short stories, poems, and readings. Specialty tapes include sound effects, ethnic music, religious, and exercise. Persons who are visually impaired, institutionalized, homebound or otherwise limited by a disabling condition may be considered eligible for Recordings for Recovery. There is an annual membership fee of $10.00 for an individual or $20.00 for a facility.
Publisher of Braille books for children. Call for free catalog.
Ski for Light, Inc. is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization founded in 1975 to promote physical fitness (especially cross-country skiing) and social well-being for adults of all ages who are blind or who have mobility impairments. Regional, national and international events are sponsored by the organization. SFL also acts a the feeder organization for the U.S. Disabled Cross-Country Ski Team.
United States Association of Blind Athletes
33 North Institute Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Phone: 719-630-0422
Fax: 719-630-0616
E-mail: blindgolf@msn.com
Internet Page:www.blindgolf.com/United_States/USHomePage.htm
USABA promotes athletics among people who are legally blind. USABA is a Disabled Sports Organization member of the U.S. Olympic Committee, the International Blind Sports Association, and International Paralympic Committee. The organization has 40 chapters and 2,200 members participating in the following nine sports: alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, athletics, goalball, judo, powerlifting, swimming, tandem cycling, and wrestling.
The foundation operates a nationwide information center, which handles inquiries on the availability of large-print materials and aids and appliances, Social Security and other benefits and services, travel, housing, employment, recreation and other areas. A VISION resource list is available in large print and on cassette. VISION Foundation charges a handling fee for items ordered.
Through its international publication series VISIONS offers (1) self-study cassettes in basic indoor mobility housekeeping skills, personal management, and sensory development; (2) instructor manuals in orientation and mobility, personal management, sewing, and sensory development; and (3) HINTS booklets (English and Spanish) giving basic information to individuals who are newly blind and their families.
Makes available various weekly and monthly Catholic periodicals on cassette; maintains free lending library of hand-transcribed Braille, large-type, and books of primarily religious nature.
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