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National organizations dealing with blindness and visual impairment are key sources of assistance on most issues for consumers and professionals alike. They can usually provide prompt assistance, information on a wide range of topics, and referrals for services or additional information. The following list provides the web sites of many of the key organizations in the United States and Canada for quick reference. For a listing of these key U.S. and Canadian organizations, choose National Organizations as the organization type in either the subscriber or advanced search.

AARP www.aarp.org
Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation & Education Professionals www.acvrep.org
Achilles Track Club www.achillestrackclub.org
American Academy of Ophthalmology www.eyenet.org
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus www.aapos.org/
American Association of Certified Orthoptists www.orthoptics.org
American Association of the Deaf-Blind www.aadb.org
American Blind Skiing Foundation www.absf.org
American Council of the Blind www.acb.org
American Council on Rural Special Education www.ksu.edu/acres
American Diabetes Association www.diabetes.org
American Foundation for the Blind www.afb.org
American Optometric Association www.aoanet.org
American Printing House for the Blind www.aph.org
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery www.ascrs.org
American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses www.asorn.org
Associated Blind www.tabinc.org
Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired www.aerbvi.org
Association for Macular Diseases www.macula.org
Association of Junior Leagues International www.ajli.org
Association of Vision Science Librarians http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~library
Association on Higher Education and Disability www.ahead.org
AWARE (Associates for World Action in Rehabilitation and Education) www.awareusa.org
Blinded Veterans Association www.bva.org/
Braille Authority of North America www.brailleauthority.org
Canadian Association of Optometrists www.opto.ca
Canadian Council of the Blind www.ccbnational.net
http://Canadian.cec.sped
Canadian Deaf-Blind and Rubella Association www.cdbra.ca
Canadian National Institute for the Blind www.cnib.ca
Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind www.cnsdb.ca/
Canadian Ophthalmological Society http://eyesite.ca
Challenge Aspen www.challengeaspen.com
Choroideremia Research Foundation www.choroideremia.org
Christian Association for Rehabilitation and Education Ministries www.careministries.org
Christian Blind Mission International www.cbmi-can.org/
Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists www.clao.org
Council for Exceptional Children www.cec.sped.org
Council of Schools for the Blind www.cosb1.org/
DB-LINK: The National Information Clearinghouse
on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
www.dblink.org
Delta Gamma Foundation: Service for Sight www.deltagamma.org
Easter Seals www.easterseals.org
Eye Bank Association of America www.restoresight.org
Eye Care America www.eyecareamerica.org
Eye Care Foundation http://eyecarefoundation.org
Fight for Sight http://fightforsight.com
Foundation Fighting Blindness www.fightblindness.org
Foundation Fighting Blindness (Canada) www.ffb.ca
Glaucoma Foundation www.glaucomafoundation.org
Glaucoma Research Foundation www.glaucoma.org
Guide Dog Users www.gdui.org
Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu
Helen Keller International www.hki.org
Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults www.hknc.org
Helping Hands for the Blind www.HelpingHands4theBlind.com
Hilton/Perkins Program of the Perkins School for the Blind www.perkins.org
IN TOUCH Networks http://66.40.142.226/InTouch/default.asp
Institute for Families www.instituteforfamilies.org
International Association of Audio Information Services www.iaais.org
International Association of Lions Clubs (Lions Club International) www.lionsclubs.org
International Braille Research Center www.braille.org
Jewish Braille Institute of America www.jewishbraille.org
John Milton Society for the Blind in Canada www.jmsblind.ca
Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology www.jcahpo.org
Joslin Diabetes Center www.joslin.org
Knights Templar Eye Foundation http://www.knightstemplar.org/ktef/
Lighthouse International www.lighthouse.org
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation www.modimes.org
Mississippi State University: Rehabilitation Research and
Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision
www.blind.msstate.edu
Mobility International USA www.miusa.org
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation www.myasthenia.org
National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving People
with Blindness and Visual Impairment
www.nacasb.org
National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments www.napvi.org
National Association for Visually Handicapped www.navh.org
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging www.n4a.org
National Association of State Directors of Special Education www.nasdse.org
National Association of State Units on Aging www.nasua.org
www.members.tripod.com/
charlie216
National Birth Defects Center www.thegenesisfund.org/
nbdc.htm
National Braille Association www.nationalbraille.org
National Council of State Agencies for the Blind www.ncsab.org/default.htm
National Dissemination Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities www.nichcy.org
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center www.nectac.org
National Federation of the Blind www.nfb.org
National Glaucoma Research Program
of the American Health Assistance Foundation
www.ahaf.org
National Industries for the Blind www.nib.org
National Industries for the Severely Handicapped www.nish.org
National Marfan Foundation www.marfan.org
National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation www.albinism.org
National Self-Help Clearinghouse www.selfhelpweb.org
National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children
and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind
www.tr.wou.edu\ntac
Operation Eyesight Universal www.giftofsight.com
Opticians Association of America www.opticians.org/
Prevent Blindness America www.preventblindness.org
Randolph-Sheppard Vendors of America www.acb.org/rsva/
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic www.rfdb.org
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive
Technology Society of North America
www.resna.org/
www.rpbusa.org
RP International www.rpinternational.org
Schepens Eye Research Institute www.eri.harvard.edu
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute:
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
www.ski.org/rerc
TASH www.tash.org
United States Association for Blind Athletes www.usaba.org
United States Blind Golf Association www.blindgolf.com
United States Braille Chess Association www.crisscrosstech.com/
usbca
Vision Council of America: Better Vision Institute www.visionsite.org/
/s_vision/
Vision World Wide www.visionww.org

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