Special Needs
Find support for parents of children with special needs. Learn how to advocate for your child, raise funds for needed equipment and find helpful organizations.
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Music Play, Visual Impairment
Making Music Accessible to Blind Musicians
A revolutionary 3-D printing system makes music easier to read for blind musicians. Invented by a blind South Korean musician as part of her doctoral dissertation, it makes music accessible...
Assistive Technology, Visual Impairment
Assistive Technology Grants for the Blind
The Association of Blind Citizens is accepting grant applications for funding assistance with assistive technology and software.
Special Needs
NewView Oklahoma
NewView Oklahoma is an Oklahoma City-based nonprofit that focuses on helping people who are blind and visually impaired.
Education, Special Needs
Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs
This blog features extensive teaching resources for those educators teaching learners with multiple and severe special needs.
Assistive Technology
Self-Driving Car from Google
Google is creating a self-driving car that can go 25 mph and carry two people. It's currently in prototype testing but they hope to have it on the road this...
Support
The Relationship Between Parents and Professionals
Watch this webcast about building relationships between parents and the professionals who work with their children who are blind or visually impaired, with or without additional disabilities.
Assistive Technology, Orientation and Mobility
Verizon Creates Navigational Tools to Promote Independence for Blind Users
Being blind means giving up a lot of independence; this new technology from Verizon gives blind people real-time information about their environment, including colors, textures, nav cues, and more, using...
Play, Visual Impairment
Brazil’s Blind Soccer Team
With the World Cup happening, soccer fever is spreading. And if you think there’s no place out on the soccer pitch for a person who is blind, think again, because...
Autism, Behavior, Sleep
3 Tips for Choosing Pajamas for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorders
Is night time a nightmare? Here are 3 tips for choosing the best pajamas for kids with autism or sensory processing disorders (SPD).
Support, Visual Impairment
5 Steps to Overcoming Your Child’s Vision Loss
I had thought about calling this post, “My 6 year old child became blind now what?” When my daughter first started losing her vision, that's the book I was looking...
Assistive Technology, Math and Science
3D Printed Pictures of Space
Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore are working on a project creating 3D images of photos taken by the Hubble Telescope for people who are visually impaired.
Schools for the Blind
The Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired
The Children's Center for the Visually Impaired in Kansas City, Missouri serves any infant to school-age child who is blind or visually impaired by providing “innovative and stimulating programs customized...
Schools for the Blind
Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind
Idaho School for the Blind provides supplemental educational services, early intervention/education, consultation and transition support to families and local school districts throughout Idaho.
Schools for the Blind
Illinois School for the Visually Impaired
Illinois School for the Visually Impaired serves as a statewide educational resource offering students with visual impairments quality educational services which will enable them to become personally productive and self-sufficient...
Schools for the Blind
The Governor Morehead School for the Blind
The Governor Morehead School for the Blind is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves all of North Carolina's visually impaired needs.