Visual Impairments and Education

ACB strives to increase the independence, security, equality of opportunity, and quality of life, for all blind and visually-impaired people.

Includes a glossary of eye conditions, tips and support for parents of children who are blind or visually impaired, directory of services around the country

Provides resources to the professionals who serve those who are blind and visually impaired.

A professional association of educators dedicated to advancing the success of children with exceptionalities. We accomplish our mission through advocacy, standards, and professional development.

Provides a wealth of information on living, working, learning, and recreation for people who are blind. Includes helpful lists of contacts, program information, additional online resources, and more!

Acts as a conduit for accurate and authoritative information about all aspects of living with albinism and to provide a place where people with albinism and their families, in the United States and Canada, can find acceptance, support and fellowship.

Strategies in different areas: general literacy, LMA, Emergent literacy, Multiple Disabilities, Braille, Struggling readers Print, Writing, Dual Media, ELL, Auditory Strategies, Math Literacy, O and M Assistive Technology strategies. Free, once you sign up you receive emails different topics.

Includes free webinars, tools, resources to encourage students to discover his/her own skills, and teaching resources

Professors and instructional designers need to make sure all their students enjoy equal access to course materials, including students with disabilities. To help educators tackle that challenge, web accessibility expert Janet Sylvia presented a webinar on 10 tips to creating accessible course content.

Provides a wealth of information and resources for teachers of visually impaired students. Broken down by grade level and teaching tools

Contains over 4,000 items covering physical and intellectual disabilities and special education-related topics

This interactive training module presents the challenge of what to do to accommodate a student with a visual impairment in one’s classroom. It is made up of five components: a Challenge (realistic scenario), Initial Thoughts (first response to the scenario), Perspectives and Resources (nuggets of information), Assessment (a self-evaluation tool), and Wrap up (summary of the information).

Includes resources on Making The Environment Safe, Lighting And Color, Making Text Legible, Organizational Skills, Orientation To The Classroom, and General Teaching Strategies

An accessible online library for people with print disabilities. Free to U.S. schools and students. volunteer opportunities available from scanning and proofreading, to describing images, to providing support for Bookshare® teachers and families.

National non-profit dedicated to helping blind, visually impaired and dyslexic students succeed in education. World’s largest collection of human-narrated audio textbooks and literature as well as solutions, support and community for parents, teachers and students.

LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 25,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.

A free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed page. Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS circulates books and magazines in braille or audio formats, delivered by postage-free mail or instantly downloadable.

Braille books can be extremely hard to find in places like libraries and are expensive to purchase. ShareBraille.org is sponsored by the National Federation of the Blind and is an online community-run library. Users register and then can lend and borrow braille books to one another.

Administers a free library program of Braille and recorded materials circulated to eligible borrowers through a network of cooperating libraries