IMPORTANT LINKS
American Foundation for the Blind AFB promotes technological access and provides people with important information and tools for those living with vision loss and their families.
VisionAWARE AWARE supports a self-help approach to vision rehab, providing useful adaptive techniques, and access to important information about resources and services.
The Readers Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Partners for Sight is a grant-making foundation whose mission is to increase the self-reliance of the blind and visually impaired.
National Eye Institute Part of the National Institutes of Health, the NEI was established to protect and prolong the vision of the American people, primarily by conducting research to prevent and treat eye diseases.
National Federation of the Blind The NFB improves blind people’s lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and self-confidence.
Lighthouse International The Lighthouse is one of the largest non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving vision and helping those with vision loss. They provide direct rehabilitation services.
Schepens Eye Research Institute Schepens fights blindness by developing new technologies, therapies and knowledge to retain and restore vision. Through a continuum of discovery, the Institute works toward a future in which blindness is prevented, alleviated, and, ultimately, cured.
ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT LINKS
- All About Low Vision
- AMD Alliance International
- American Academy of Ophthalmology
- American Council of the Blind
- American Optometric Association
- The Blinded Veterans Association
- The Eye Digest
- Foundation Fighting Blindness
- Foundation for Retinal Research
- International Blind Sports Federation
- Linkable.org (Social network for the disabled)
- The Low Vision Gateway (portal)
- Low Vision Research Group Network
- Macular Degeneration Foundation
- Macular Degeneration Partnership
- National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments
- National Association for the Visually Handicapped
- National Federation of the Blind
- National Organization on Disability
- Prevent Blindness America
- American Academy of Ophthalmogy
- American Optometric Association
- American Diabetes Association
- Jewish Guild for the Blind
- National Federation of the Blind
- Eye Care America
- The Seeing Eye
- Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation
- Ears for Eyes Program
- SmartSight (AAO)