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Exceptional Children and Youth,
Fourth Edition
Nancy Hunt, California State University, Los Angeles
Kathleen Marshall, University of South Carolina
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Web Links
Chapter Eleven: Children Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision
- Prevent Blindness America: This site has information for children who are blind or have low vision. (http://www.preventblindness.org/children/ch_eye_problems.html)
- The American Printing House for the Blind: APH provides special media, tools, and material needed for education and daily life by people with visual impairments. They also have a publication for teachers, Teaching the Student With a Visual Impairment: A Primer for the Classroom Teacher, which is available through the APH web site. (www.aph.org/)
- American Foundation for the Blind's AFB Directory of Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons in the United States and Canada: This directory, updated yearly, is a compilation of schools, agencies, organizations, and programs that serve individuals who are blind or have low vision and their families. (http://www.afb.org/)
- The Blind Childrens Center: This organization publishes a series of booklets that are useful, inexpensive, and reader-friendly on topics such as communicating and encouraging movement with the young child with visual impairments. They are written with parents in mind but are also helpful for early intervention specialists and teachers, too. (http://www.blindcntr.org/)
- The Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped: This is a free library program of Braille and recorded materials circulated to eligible borrowers through a network of cooperating libraries. (http://www.loc.gov/nls/)
- The American Printing House for the Blind (APH): This site currently houses a database called the Louis Database of Accessible Materials for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired. Louis contains information about more than 152,000 titles of accessible materials, including Braille, large print, sound recordings, and computer files from over 200 agencies throughout the United States. (http://www.aph.org/louis.htm)
- AccessWorld: Technology for Consumers with Visual Impairments: This is a bimonthly journal from the American Foundation for the Blind that plans to cover assistive technology and visual impairment. It is available online, in large print and Braille, or on tape or disk. (www.afb.org)
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