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TopiaSearch: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Eye Disorders: Blindness (90)
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Blindness Emailing Lists - Subscribe to blindness-related emailing lists and pan-disability and access-issues lists directly from this comprehensive hypertext index. Lenny McHugh's Home Page - Inspiring and motivational real-life stories from Lenny, who is a retired blind computer programmer. Includes links to many other resources for the blind. Savon Condition Center - A comprehensive information site including medical references and tools. Blindskills, Inc. - Offers solutions and answers to questions regarding blindness, visual impairment and vision loss. AccessDome - Resources for the blind. A web portal designed to enhance vision impaired and print restricted access to the web. VICUG-L - A visually impaired computer users' group list. Search the archives and join from this site. Video Description by Narrative Television Network - Makes movies and television programming accessible to blind and visually impaired people through narration. The Eye - Includes what to do when meeting a person with vision impairment, the signs of vision loss, legal blindness, braille and other health related links. Talking Software - Offers a word speech enabled dictionary and thesaurus for blind users. All controls are designed with unsighted user in mind. Envision - Flash presentation on the research at the Duke University Eye Center to eliminate blindness. Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted - Provides assorted information and resources for visually impaired people. Empower Connection - Technology for the Blind - Information and help for people using assistive Internet technology. Louis Database - Database of accessible materials for people who are blind or visually impaired. Contains information about more than 145,000 titles of accessible materials, including braille, large print, sound recordings, and computer files from over 200 agencies throughout the United States. Recording For The Blind and Dyslexic - Educational library for people with print disabilities, with a 77,000-title library of taped textbooks, reference and professional materials for people who cannot read standard print because of a disability. RNIB - Charles Bonnet Syndrome - Characterized by visual hallucinations in people who have a sudden change in vision such as that brought on by macular degeneration or serious sight loss. Kenneth Jernigan: 'power to the blind' - Article on the late director of the Iowa Commission for the Blind. Ellen Bomer - Survivor - The story of Ellen Bomer's recovery. After being blinded in the 1998 US Embassy Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya Ellen is still working toward recovering her lost eyesight. The Voice - Translates images from a camera into sounds that one hears via stereo headphones and targetting vision substitution for the totally blind. The Blind Readers Page - A source of information about books and reading, blindness and other disabilities and library services for the blind and physically handicapped. SensibleGraphics - Tactile Graphics for Blind and Visually Impaired - Information on tactile graphics for the blind and visually impaired. Graphic files free to download. Enablers for visually impaired young adults with learning difficulties - Resource and contact site for enablers working with visually impaired young adults with learning difficulties. Vis-Ability (DK) - Supplies electronic aids for the visually impaired. Blind BBS - a list for the discussion of issues concerning the blind Information about Vision Loss and Blindness - Information and diagrams with links to other helpful sites. Artificial Vision - Homepage - The Dobelle Institute (Portugal) Lda. announces development of an artificial vision system providing independent mobility to blind people. VisionConnection - Vision information and an accessible community for people who are partially sighted or blind. Searchable database of resources, and articles.
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