Resources for Serving Blind and Visually Impaired students

A List of Resources Compiled by Kathy McGillivray (Bethel College, Minnesota) and Jim Marks (University of Montana, Missoula), for the 2002 AHEAD conference

The following is a list of internet resources where you will find a wealth of information about blindness and teaching blind students. Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement by the presenters, their respective institutions, or AHEAD.

Access to Print

• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFBD)http://www.rfbd.org
• American Printing House for the Blind (APH): http://www.aph.org/
• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS): http://www.loc.gov/nls/
• BookShare: http://www.bookshare.org
• National Braille Press: http://www.nbp.org
• Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
• Dancing Dots: http://www.dancingdots.com
• Purdue Tactile Diagrams Manual: http://www.taevisonline.purdue.edu/Tactile_Diagram_Manual.html

Math and Science Resources

• Project EASI Science and Math Page: http://people.rit.edu/easi/easisem.htm
• John Gardner's Science Education & Visual Impairments: http://dots.physics.orst.edu/Gardner/jag_SAPpubs.html
• Teaching Math to Visually Impaired Students: http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/
• Barrier Free Education: http://barrier-free.arch.gatech.edu/
• National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/
• Strategies for Teaching Blind Students: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/text/vision_impair.html
• RFBD Symposium on Access to Math and Science:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/rfb-math-workshop/summary.html

Technology

• Freedom Scientific: http://www.freedomscientific.com
• WC3: http://www.w3.org

Accessible Webpage Design

• Resources: http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/Accessible/pub_resources.htm

General Information on Blindness and Low Vision

• National Federation of the Blind (NFB) http://www.nfb.org
• American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org