WEBSITES FOR ISSUES RELATED TO BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS
Families Resources and Support
This site provides opportunities to learn about braille and how the young child might use braille to
develop literacy skills.
DOTS FOR FAMILIES
Services provided: adocacy, parent support groups, summer programs, vocational
diagnostic/training counseling, employment training.
Department of Assistive & Rehabilitative Services Division of Blind Services
This site offers resources, programs, and activities on vision impairment rehabilitation.
Lighthouse of Houston Vision Rehabilitation Clinic
Committed to providing the optimal Active Learning environments to the learners that can benefit
from them (education of multiply-disabled children).
LilliWorks Active Learning Foundation
It provides publications, databases, and other resources for deaf-blindness.
DB-Link
Provides support by providing resources to parents of Blind Children.
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children (NOPBC)
This site addresses misconceptions and the lack of information about blindness that exist. This site
shares successes, provides support to each other in times of failure, and creates imaginative
solutions.
National Federation of the Blind
A statewide non-profit organization serving families of children who are visually impaired or blind,
including those who have multiple disabilities.
Texas Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (TAPVI)
This organization provides services and programs to families, professionals and the broader
community to meet the unique needs of infant and preschool children who are blind or visually
impaired.
Blind Babies Foundation
This site has materials and information about learning. Also, it has other links attached to it.
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
This foundation advocates for children with CHARGE and those deafblind through targeted programs
aimed at improving patient care in pediatric hospitals and at home by increasing awareness and
focus while decreasing the burdens on families and medical professionals associated with the
CHARGE lifestyle.
Lily Voelkel Foundation
Talking Book Program Texas State Library and Archives Commission
PO Box 12927 Austin, TX 78711-2927
1-800-252-9605
Talking Book Program Texas State Library
Other Resources
Directory of Agencies & Resources for Students with Visual Impairments (Region 4 Education Service
Center Fall 2009) Wesite: www.theansweris4.net