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Choice Magazine Listening
Choice Magazine Listening (CML) provides bimonthly audio tapes of current magazine articles from over 100 magazines free of charge to the blind, visually impaired, or physically handicapped. Eight ho... Details >
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DB-LINK
DB-LINK is a federally funded information and referral service that identifies, coordinates, and disseminates (at no cost) information related to children and youth who are deaf-blind (ages 0 to 21 ye... Details >
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Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc.
The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind provides trained dogs for qualified blind persons. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization incorporated under the Membership Corporation Laws of New York. I... Details >
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Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc.
Guide Dogs for the Blind was organized in 1942 to serve blind veterans by providing them with trained dogs and with training in the use of guide dogs. The school now provides these services to all qu... Details >
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Guide Dogs of America
Guide Dogs of America, formerly International Guiding Eyes, established in 1948, trains blind persons in the use of guide dogs, and trains and provides guide dogs free of charge to blind persons. An... Details >
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Guiding Eyes for the Blind
Guiding Eyes for the Blind was created to provide independent mobility to qualified blind persons through the use of highly trained guide dogs. The puppies are placed in the homes of volunteer foster... Details >
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Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults
The mission of the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults (HKNC) is to enable all those who are deaf-blind to live and work the community of their choice. It provides comprehensi... Details >
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Jewish Guild for the Blind
The Jewish Guild for the Blind is one of the country's foremost vision care agencies.Founded in 1914, The Guild is a non-profit, nonsectarian agency serving persons of all ages who are visually impare... Details >
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Leader Dogs for the Blind
Leader Dogs for the Blind is one for the largest dog guide schools in the world. Established in 1939, the school is recognized for its fine training of dogs, stellar education of its students and it'... Details >
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National Alliance of Blind Students
The National Alliance of Blind Students (NABS) was founded in 1974 as an affiliate of the American Council of the Blind to provide a forum for blind and visually impaired students. It believes that e... Details >
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National Braille Association, Inc.
The National Braille Association (NBA) was founded in 1945 to provide continuing education to those who prepare braille, and to provide braille materials to persons who are visually impaired. The orga... Details >
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National Federation of the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), established in 1940 as an organization of blind persons, serves as both an advocacy and a public information vehicle. NFB contacts newly blind persons to h... Details >
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National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
Administers a national library service that provides braille and recorded books and magazines on free loan to residents of the United States and American citizens abroad who cannot read standard print... Details >
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Pilot Dogs, Inc.
Pilot Dogs is a nonprofit organization founded in 1950 to train guide dogs and to teach blind persons to work with them. Dogs are trained individually for 3 to 4 months, then trained for another 4 we... Details >
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Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D;), founded in 1948, provides recorded educational books free of charge to persons who cannot read standard printed material because of visual, perceptual, or o... Details >
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Research to Prevent Blindness
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has been the leading non-goverment source of financial support for eye research directed at finding treatment, cures, and preventives for all diseases that damage a... Details >
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Seeing Eye, Inc.
The Seeing Eye was founded in 1929 with the purpose of helping blind persons achieve independence and mobility through the use of properly trained guide dogs. The Seeing Eye teaches dogs to guide bli... Details >
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Surgical Eye Expeditions International
Founded in 1974, this international, non-profit humanitarian organization recruits, coordinates and deploys volunteer ophthalmologists, nurses and technicians to perform free, sight-restoring surgery ... Details >
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