Resources for Parents or Caregivers
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Blind Childrens Center
Web site - Blind Childrens Center
Description - A Source of Hope FOR 65 Years! The Blind Childrens Center is a non-profit organization available to blind and partially sighted children regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, religion, or ability to pay. The Blind Childrens Center is a family-centered agency which serves children with visual impairments from birth to school-age. The center-based and home-based programs and services help the children acquire skills and build their independence. The Center utilizes its expertise and experience to serve families and professionals worldwide through support services, education, and research. This site has an interesting "Publications and Resources" section containing educational books and videos for teachers and parents of children who are visually impaired, commonly encountered eye conditions, and more information regarding childhood blindness.
Blind Children's Fund
Web site - Blind Children's Fund
Description - Blind Children's Fund promotes the development of materials and methods regarding how to care for and work with and educate infants and young children. We develop articles, handouts and video materials for use by both parents and professionals. BCF also produces a quarterly VIP Newsletter that is available for an annual subscription of $10.00 within the United States and $15.00 outside the United States.
Children with Diabetes
Web site - Children with Diabetes
Description - The online community for kids, families and adults with diabetes.
Seedlings Braille Books for Children
Web site - Seedlings Braille Books for Children
Description - Seedlings is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to increasing the opportunity for literacy by providing high quality, low cost braille books for children. Seedlings braille materials have opened up new worlds for thousands of children. Seedlings Braille Books for Children is keeping visually impaired children in the mainstream of popular literature and is reaching braille readers in all 50 states and several foreign countries. Seedlings contributes to literacy by providing visually impaired children equal opportunity to develop the love of reading. At this time, less than 20% of the 50,000 blind children in the United States are proficient in braille. All too often, the written word has been inaccessible to them, and this is what we are hoping to change.
TACK-TILES
Web site - TACK-TILES
Description - Tack-Tiles® Braille Systems are a sophisticated teaching tool for all ages based on LEGO®-type blocks. These Braille blocks provide a unique bridge, a smoother, shorter, more interesting path to Braille literacy. Now in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian literary Braille Code as well as Nemeth Braille Code for mathematics, Braille code for music notation, and computer Braille code. True to their nature, TACK-TILES® have shown themselves to be valuable tactile aids in several settings wherein of sensory stimulation, not vision, is the central issue to be addressed.
Travel Tales: A Mobility Storybook
Web site - Travel Tales: A Mobility Storybook
Description - TRAVEL TALES: A MOBILITY STORYBOOK, by Julia Halpern-Gold, Robin Weinstock Adler, and Shelly Faust-Jones. This large print, paperback book, is geared for pre-school and early elementary students with visual impairments. Designed to reinforce different environmental concepts in which a child would travel, it features a boy named Elliot, who is blind. Elliot provides a positive role model for blind children as he travels through the supermarket, in the subway, around the block, all around the town. Share his adventures with family and friends through 17 chapters that reinforce environmental concepts and moblity skills.
V. I. Guide
Web site - V. I. Guide
Description - This site contains information on many topics pertaining to parenting and teaching a child with visual impairments