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Wayfinder Family Services (WFS), Founded in 1953 [1] as the Foundation for the Junior Blind and previously known as Junior Blind, [2] is a United States–based nonprofit organization for services for the blind. The organization's mission is to help children and adults who are blind, visually impaired, or multi-disabled achieve independence.
Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children (WPSBC) is a private chartered school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for individuals with blindness and visual impairment. It serves nearly 500 individuals ages 3 to 59 from 33 counties through on-campus school programs, A Child’s VIEW inclusive childcare, LAVI adult program, residential program and outreach services.
Named after longtime leader of the National Federation of the Blind, Kenneth Jernigan, this program headquartered in Tarzana, California, will loan out braille books from its library of 40,000 + titles for a period of three months. The books will be sent free of charge.
Most notable: the Book Angel Program which provides four free braille books a year to children with vision loss under 21 years of age. The Rose Project is another program that provides free braille transcriptions of World Book Encyclopedia articles to blind and visually impaired students. As well as the aforementioned programs Seedlings has a ...
When Daniel Solomon was born with ocular albinism, his parents turned to Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired for help and support. Blind since birth, Brown University student ...
The Jernigan Institute offers various programs that promote and empower independence among blind people. Such programs provide an education in and promote the use of tools and resources for blind youth, leadership training, and empowerment and resources for parents and teachers of blind children. [8]
The first school for blind adults was founded in 1866 at Worcester and was called the College for the Blind Sons of Gentlemen. Georgia Academy for the Blind, Macon, Georgia, US, circa 1876. In 1889 the Edgerton Commission published a report that recommended that the blind should receive compulsory education from the age of 5–16 years.
It helps blind children learn the code. Lego is selling Lego Braille Bricks to families after offering the product to schools that educate blind children. It helps blind children learn the code.