Programs and Services
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Access-Able Travel Source
Web site - Access-Able Travel Source
Description - Access-Able Travel Source is dedicated to aiding travelers with disabilities and the mature traveler. We accomplish this by having practical information needed to go cross town or around the world. The data base has not only accessible accommodations, but everything to make a trip fun and exciting. We have information about scuba diving for persons withall types of disabilities. There are accessible safaris, sailing, raft trips and even a place where you can learn to sky sail. We've included information for persons who are blind about hands on attractions. Seashore areas that have beach wheelchairs. The basis of Access-Able is to emphasize the positive.
American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adluts
Web site - American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adluts
Description - The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults is a service agency which specializes in providing to blind people help which is not readily available to them from government programs or other existing service systems. The services of the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults are planned especially to meet the needs of blind children, the elderly blind, and the deaf-blind. The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults has offices in Baltimore, Maryland, and Tarzana, California, and volunteer workers throughout the country.
Associated Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired
Web site - Associated Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired
Description - Serving Philadelphia's and the nation's blind and visually impaired population since 1874. Associated Services for the Blind (ASB), a non-profit, is established to promote self-esteem, independence, and self-determination in people who are blind and visually impaired. ASB accomplishes this by providing support through education, training, and resources. ASB also serves as a voice and advocate for the rights of the people by working to remove barriers through community action and education.
Associates for World Action in Rehabilitation and Education
Web site - Associates for World Action in Rehabilitation and Education
Description - AWARE is committed to bringing rehabilitation information to the millions of hard-to-reach and unserved people with severe visual disabilities. In the United States such people include the elderly, unemployed, African Americans, Spanish speaking, homebound, and those in long-term care. Overseas AWARE works in partnership with local sources to train rehabilitation workers, where none currently exist, and to develop custom-designed "grassroots and self-help" outreach interventions.
Braille Institute Library Services
Web site -Braille Institute Library Services
Description -A world without books is nearly impossible for most people to imagine. Many who are blind or visually impaired or who have reading or other physical disabilities often cannot use printed materials, which deprives them of reading materials that most take for granted. Braille Institute's Library Services has solved this problem for more than six decades by providing free books, periodicals and other texts in braille and recorded formats. With a Reader Advisor's help, choosing books is easy; patrons select from more than 900,000 volumes accessible from the Library's own collection or that of the National Library Service.
Lions World Services for the Blind
Web site - Lions World Services for the Blind
Description - Lions World Services for the Blind was founded in 1947 to serve people who are blind and visually impaired who needed to learn independent living skills or job training skills that considered the special requirements of their individual visual impairments. The goal of the rehabilitation center then, and today, is to prepare the individual who is blind or visually impaired to function independently in our "sighted" society.
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
Web site - National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
Description - Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.
Outta Sight Travel
Web site - Outta Sight Travel
Description - Outta Sight Travel is the beginning of dreams come true. Many people have had the desire to take a dream vacation, but thought that it could never become a reality. The staff at Outta Sight Travel can steer you in the right direction. With their combined expertise they can assist you in planning a vacation that goes beyond the visual realm. They can help you plan destinations that are ready to accept service animals and get whatever documentation is necessary to facilitate the travel procedures. Their ultimate goal is to be able to provide the traveler with itineraries and information in accessible format.
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Web site - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Description - Anyone with a documented disability, including a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability which makes reading standard print difficult or impossible, is eligible to use RFB&D's audio textbooks but in order to access our library, you need to become a member. We offer two types of membership: individual and institutional. Students may join as individual members or become a member through their school if the school has an RFB&D Learning Through Listening® institutional membership. Some students become members through their school and also maintain an individual membership.