Helping students with visual impairments. The website provides a guide with tips and resources for students with visual impairments to achieve success in schools, and was created in part by four experts in the field that draw on their experiences. The guide contains
- an extended list of tips for choosing the right college,
- an in-depth look at the top assistive technology and tools being used today,
- additional scholarships available for students with visual impairments, and further valuable information.
A U.K. national organization that aims to ensure blind and partially sighted people receive practical support in all aspects of their lives.
America’s leading membership organization of blind and partially sighted people. This website provides links to all major visually impaired associations, organizations and schools in the United States.
Information on blindness, low vision and related issues.
Focuses on aspects for positive change.
Promotes the empowerment of people with disabilities and a barrier-free society in developing countries in the Asia and Pacific Region.
A-Z information on deafblindness.
Directory on assistive technology and devices.
An organization of visually impaired people who use Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
Acts upon the needs and rights of people with disabilities.
College students with disabilities have rights that allow for specific accommodations to help them succeed in school. Learn about legal protections, scholarships, technologies, and other assistance available to students with disabilities.
This offers in-depth information in several areas, including:
- Legal rights of students with disabilities
- Services colleges can or need to make available
- Required accommodations for students
- Technologies and helpful apps for students
- Financial aid and scholarships for students with disabilities
Serves blind musicians and their educators through technology and training.
Dark and Light Blind Care is a Christian foundation for helping visually impaired people in Africa and Asia, especially children, through projects for prevention, treatment, education and vocational training.
Deafblind International (DbI) is the world association promoting services for deafblind people.
Assists to raise standards in access for everyone.
A U.K. registered charity with the principal aim of relieving the poverty and improving the living standards of disabled people, and an eventual goal of breaking the link between poverty and disability.
An information sharing platform of voluntary organizations involved in providing services to persons with disabilities.
A unique international online magazine (e-zine) dedicated to advancing and exchanging information and expertise about the international independent living movement of people with disabilities.
Established to find relevant information and act as a comprehensive directory of information and websites for the disabled both within the U.K. and Internationally.
Provides guide dogs, mobility and other rehabilitation services that meet the needs of blind and partially-sighted people.
Helen Keller International (HKI) is among the oldest international non-profit organizations devoted to fighting and treating preventable blindness and malnutrition.
International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) is a global association of individuals and organizations that promotes equal access to appropriate education for all children and youth with visual impairment so that they may achieve their full potential.
IAPB was established as a coordinating umbrella organization to lead an international effort in mobilizing resources for blindness prevention activities.
Seeks to achieve the full integration of the blind and visually impaired through sport at all levels.
IDDC is a self-managing group, currently consisting of 16 international non-government organizations, that supports disability and development work in over 100 countries globally.
International Society for Low-vision Research and Rehabilitation consists of people from a variety of disciplines who work in the field of research and development for rehabilitation of people with vision impairment.
Aims to provide the latest news on issues affecting persons with disabilities in Japan and overseas, details of training courses, and other information.
Lions are an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 202 countries and geographic areas who work together to address challenges to communities around the world.
Assists in enabling people of all ages who are blind or partially sighted to lead independent and productive lives.
Designed for people who know or work with someone with low vision, with the aim to give an understanding of low vision.
The largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States, it seeks to improve blind people’s lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and self-confidence.
A worldwide network of 125 international NGOs working on behalf of children in over 110 countries, and is currently based in New York and Geneva.
The OECD brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world.
Agencies, centres, organizations and societies for the visually impaired.
A non-profit organization fighting blindness in developing countries, where 90 percent of the blind reside.
An innovative leader in serving people with visual impairments.
The U.K.’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss.
Provides guidelines on accessibility issues for all types of disabilities, for designers of information and communication technology (ICT) systems. It also offers in-depth information on assistive devices and agencies for blind and partially sighted people, current and future research, as well as information about tactile reading.
Works to combat blindness in developing countries, and restoring sight through specialist treatment and eye care. It also supports people who are irreversibly blind by providing education, counseling and training, and has a main focus on those living in poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Seeing with your ears is designed as a step towards a vision substitution device for the blind through the real-time conversion of arbitrary images into soundscapes.
FFB is a U.S. foundation driving research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), macular degeneration, Usher syndrome, and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.
Deploys efforts in the fields of education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information as the means to a far more ambitious goal: to build peace in the minds of men and women.
Aims to achieve for every child – health, education, equality, protection, and advancement of humanity.
Documents on Persons with Disabilities.
The UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
Vision information and an accessible community for people who are partially sighted or blind.
The World Bank finances development projects involving disability components in areas such as education, health care, infrastructure, employment, de-institutionalization, and children & youth. It also works in a wide variety of disability-related fields, including data collection and statistics, research and analysis, technical assistance and knowledge sharing.
A non-political, non-religious, non-governmental and non-profit-making organization which has consultative status within the UN Agencies and ECOSOC. It is the only organization entitled to speak on behalf of blind and partially sighted persons of the world, and represents 162 million blind and visually impaired persons from about 600 different organizations in 158 countries.
The directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system, and is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries, and monitoring and assessing health trends.
