Directories > Agencies/Organizations
The Achromatopsia Network - An information and support network for individuals and families concerned with the rare inherited vision disorder achromatopsia, including both rod monochromacy and blue cone monochromacy
- Website - http://www.achromat.org/
Action for Blind People
14-16 Verney Road
London
SE16 3DZ
Phone: 0171 732 8771
AERBVI
4600 Duke Street, Suite 430
P.O. Box 22397
Alexandria, VA 22304
Phone: 703-823-9690
Fax: 703-823-9695
- Website: http://www.aerbvi.org
America WALKs
P.O. Box 29103
Portland, OR 97210
Phone: 503-222-1077
Fax: 503- 228-0298
- E-mail: info@americawalks.org
- Website: http://americawalks.org
American Academy of Ophthalmology - Eyenet: provides authoritative information about eye care for the public
- Website: http://www.eyenet.org
American Council of the Blind
1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 720
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-467-5081
Phone 800-424-8666
Fax: 202-467-5085
- Website: http://www.acb.org
American Foundation for the Blind
11 Penn Plaza
Suite 300
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 800-AFB-LINE (232-5463)
- E-mail: afbinfo@afb.org
- Website: http://www.afb.org
American Printing House for the Blind
P.O. Box 6085
1839 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY 40206
Phone: 502-895-2405
Fax: 502-895-1509
- Website: http://www.aph.org
APHAKIC - Association of Parents Having A Kid In Contacts - A website for parents of young children who, because of aphakia or other reasons, must wear contact lenses
Association for Macular Diseases
210 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212-605-3719
Aurora of Central New York Inc
518 James Street
Syracuse, NY 13203
Phone: 315-422-7263
Blind Children's Center
4120 Marathon St.
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Phone: 213-664-2153
Phone: 800-222-3566 (USA)
Phone: 800-222-3567 (California)
- Website: http://www.blindcntr.org/bcc/
Bridges for Families
1500 Highland Avenue
Waisman Center, Room 217
Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-263-9907
Canadian National Institute for the Blind - Information regarding eye diseases and living with vision loss
- Website: http://www.cnib.ca
The Council for Exceptional Children
- Website: http://www.cec.sped.org
Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind - A multi-service rehabilitation agency providing opportunities for independence to people with vision impairments
4245 Office Parkway
Dallas, TX 75204
Phone: 214-821-2375
- Website: http://www.dallaslighthouse.org
Disabled Living
Redbank House
4 St Chad's Street
Cheetham
Manchester
M8 8QA
Phone: 0161 832 3678
DO-IT - Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology
- Website: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/
Descriptive Video Service (DVS) - National service that makes television & movies accessible to the blind and visually-impaired
- Website: http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/access/dvs/
DREAMMS for Kids, Inc. (Developmental Research for the Effective Advancement of Memory and Motor Skills) - A non-profit parent and professional service agency specializing in Assistive Technology (AT) related research, development, and information dissemination
273 Ringwood Road
Freeville, NY 13068-6916
Phone: 607-539-3027
Fax: Same
- Website: http://www.dreamms.org
Envision - Envision is a private, not-for-profit agency uniquely combining employment opportunities with rehabilitation services. Anyone who is legally to totally blind is eligible.
2301 S. Water
Wichita, KS 67213
- Website: http://www.envisionus.com
Fiesta Educativa - Dedicated to Empowering Families of Persons with Disabilities
- Website: http://www.fiestaeducativa.org
FOCUS (For Our Children's Unique Sight)
2571 Pico Place
San Diego, CA 92109
Phone: 619-273-1473
- E-mail: daphari@adnc.com
Foundation Fighting Blindness
Executive Plaza 1, Suite 800
11350 McCormick Road
Hunt Valley, MD 21031-1014
Phone: 800-683-5555 (410-785-1414)
- Website: http://www.blindness.org
The Foundation for Blind Children - Providing education, counseling, media and technology services to blind and visually impaired children and their families
- Website: http://www.the-fbc.org
Genetic Alliance
4301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20008-2304
Phone: 202-966-5557
Helpline: 800-336-GENE (4363)
Fax: 202-966-8553
- E-mail: info@geneticalliance.org
- Website: http://www.geneticalliance.org
Glaucoma Foundation
33 Maiden Lane, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10038
Phone: 800-452-8266
Phone: 800-832-3926
- Website: http://www.glaucoma-foundation.org
Glaucoma Research Foundation
490 Post Street, Suite 830
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 800-826-6693
- E-mail: info@glaucoma.org
- Website: http://www.glaucoma.org
Helen Keller National Center
Phone: 516-944-8900
INTACT - Commission on Tactile Graphics for Blind and Visually-Impaired People
International Federation of Pedestrians (FIP) - An organization dedicated to pedestrian issues
For more information, contact:
Ralph B. Hirsch, Secretary-General
3500 Race Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-4925, USA
Phone: 215-386-1270
Fax: same
- E-mail: hirsch@igc.org
Jersey Pedestrians Association - An organization dedicated to pedestrian issues
For more information, contact:
Geraint Jennings,Chair
102 Rouge Bouillon
St Helier, Jersey, Channel Isles, GB
Phone: 01534 280778
Fax: 01534 280778
- E-mail: geraint@itl.net
Keystone Blind Association - Dedicated to the joint missions of maintaining and improving the quality of life for blind and/or visually impaired persons, preventing blindness, and providing employment opportunities and advocacy for persons who are disabled.
1230 Stambaugh Avenue
Sharon, PA 16146
Phone: 800-837-4122
Fax: 724-347-2204
- Website: http://www.keystoneblind.org
Late-Onset Tay-Sachs Foundation
1303 Paper Mill Road
Erdenheim, PA 19038
Phone: 800-672-2022 or 215-836-9426
The Lighthouse, Inc.
111 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Phone: 800-334-5497
Fax: 212-821-9705
- Website: http://www.lighthouse.org
Macular Degeneration Foundation
P.O. Box 9752
San Jose, CA 95157
Phone: 408-260-1335
- E-mail: eyesight@eyesight.org
- Website: http://www.eyesight.org
Macular Degeneration International
2968 West Ina Road #106
Tucson, AZ 85741
Phone: 520-797-8010
Fax: 520-797-8018
- E-mail: tperski@aol.com
Massachusetts Association for the Blind
200 Ivy Street
Brookline, MA 02146
Phone: 617-738-5110
Fax: 617-738-1247
- Website: http://www.tiac.net/users/mablind
Mobility International
18 Boulevard Baudouin
B-1000
Brussels
Belgium
Phone: 0032 2 201 5608/5711
Mobility International USA - An excellent resource for anything to do with issues relating to adapting and including persons with disabilities into international exchange programs
- Website: http://www.miusa.org
NAPVI - National Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired, Inc
PO Box 317
Watertown, MA 02272-0317
Phone: 800-562-6265
Fax: 617-972-7444
- Website: http://www.napvi.org
National Association for Visually Handicapped - Health agency dedicated to serving the visually impaired
- Website: http://www.navh.org
The National Braille Association - Works with the Library of Congress to train Braille music transcribers
3 Townline Circle
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone: 716-427-8260
National Braille Press
88 St. Stephen Street
Boston, MA 02115
- Website: http://www.nbp.org
National Eye Institute
Building 31, Room 6A32
31 Center Drive MSC 2510
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: 301-496-5248
- E-mail: 2020@b31.nei.nih.gov
- Website: http://www.nei.nih.gov
National Federation of the Blind
1800 Johnson Street, Suite 300
Baltimore, Maryland 21230-4998
Phone: 410-659-9314
- Website: http://www.nfb.org
National Foundation for Jewish Genetic Disease, Inc.
250 Park Ave, Suite 1000
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-371-1030
National Information Center for Children & Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
P.O. Box 1492
Washington, DC 20013-1492
Phone: 800-695-0285
National Library of Congress - Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Website: http://lcweb.loc.gov/nls/nls.html
National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentaion
1500 Locust Street #29
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 800-473-2310
- E-mail: noah@albinism.org
- Website: http://www.albinism.org
National Organization for Rare Disorders - NORD is committed to the identification, treatment, and cure of rare disorders through programs of education, advocacy, research, and service
- Website: http://www.pcnet.com/~orphan/
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
National Federation of the Blind
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore MD 21230
Phone: 410-659-9314
National Organization on Disability - The National Organization on Disability promotes full and equal participation of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life
- Website: http://www.nod.org
National Rehabilitation Information Center - NARIC library and information center on disability and rehabilitation
- Website: http://www.cais.net/naric/home.html
The National Resource Center for Blind Musicians
David Goldstien, Director
c/o Music and Arts Center for the Handicapped
600 University Avenue
Bridgeport, Connecticut 06601
Phone: 203-366-3300
National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association, Inc.
2001 Beacon Street, Suite 204
Brookline, MA 02146
Phone: 800-906-8723 or 617-277-4463
Fax: 617-277-0134
- E-mail: NTSAD-Boston@worldnet.att.net
Parent Education Project of Wisconsin
2192 S. 60th Street
West Allis, WI 53219
Phone: 414-231-8382
Prevent Blindness Texas
3211 West Dallas
Houston, TX 77019
Phone: 713-526-2559
PXE International - Support groups for Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) - Serves people who cannot read standard print due to visual, perceptual or physical disability
- Website: http://www.rfbd.org
ROPARD - The Association for Retinopathy of Prematurity and Related Diseases - Ropard funds clinical research to eliminate ROP and to fund work leading to new low vision devices and teaching techniques. The website contains a comprehensive bulletin board, bibliolography and links to other resources
- Website: http://www.ropard.org
Royal National Institute for the Blind, UK - Challenging blindness
- Website: http://www.rnib.org.uk
Santa Casa Project - A joint Brazilian-Swedish project to support low vision children in Brazil
SIH - The National Swedish Agency for Special Education - Information available in Swedish and English
- Website: http://www.sih.se
Singapore Association for the Deaf
227 Mountbatten Road
Singapore 397998
Republic of Singapore
Phone: +65-344-8274
Fax: +65-345-7706
- Website: http://www.dpa.org.sg/SAD/
Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped
47, Toa Payoh Rise
Singapore 298104
Phone: +65 251-4331
Fax: +65 253-7191
- Website: http://www.dpa.org.sg/SAVH/
Stargardt International and Juvenile Macular Degeneration
c/o Macular Degeneration International
2968 W Ina Road # 106
Tucson, AZ 85741
Phone: 520-797-2525
Fax: 1-520-797-8018
- E-mail: tperski@aol.com
Texas Commission for the Blind
4800 North Lamar
Austin, TX 78756-3175
Phone: 512-459-2500
Phone: 800-252-5204 (Voice or TDD)
Fax: 512-459-2685
- Website: http://www.tcb.state.tx.us
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board - CB Report
- Website: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us
The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH)
11 Greenwood Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98133
Phone: 206-361-8870
Fax: 206-361-9208
