Accessible Resource Centre - BC. Educators will soon be able to download alternate format resources for students with perceptual disabilities.

Assistive Technology - BC: Provides Assistive Technology to Adults with disabilities.

Special Education Technology - BC: Provides Assistive Technology to Students with disabilities from Kindergarten to Grade 12

Ministry of Education's K-12 Curriculum and Learning Resources

For More Access to Talking Books at Your Local Library

Welcome to British Columbia Public Libraries: Your Library Without Walls! We have something NEW for you!

The program is offered through a combination of on-campus summer coursework and part-time, on-line study.

ALACD promotes, supports and enables Canadians with disabilities to lead active, healthy lives.

ASIC is a Vancouver area group of volunteers who help advocate equal access and independence for persons who are blind, sight impaired or deaf-blind.

AEBC wants to increase awareness of rights and responsibilities, so blind Canadians can have equal access to all aspects of society.

BCBSRA's role is to facilitate participation and encourage skill achievement in all aspects of physical activity for BC residents with visual impairment.

Braille 200 is the Canadian banner for events which are being organized by the World Braille Foundation to mark the 200th birthday of Louis Braille.

Camp Hornby seeks to create a unique environment for blind children to expand their physical and social boundaries in a supportive atmosphere.

CBA is a Canadian resource organization to promote the use of braille as a primary medium for persons who are blind.

CBLF provides funding to promote braille literacy and to make braille publications and instruction more accessible to blind and visually impaired people.

CCB is a national self-help consumer organization "of" persons blind, deaf-blind and visually impaired.

CGDB assists visually-impaired Canadians with their mobility by providing and training them in the use of professionally trained Guide Dogs.

CNIB is a national voluntary agency providing services to Canadians with visual impairment.

NEADS advocates for increased accessibility so that disabled students may gain equal access to college or university education.

AFB promotes wide-ranging, systemic change by addressing the critical issues faced by individuals who are blind and visually impaired.

APH promotes independence of blind and visually impaired persons by providing specialized materials, products, and services.

ASDB's site is for family members, Vision teachers, and others interested in promoting literacy for children with visual impairments.

AER develops and promotes professional excellence through support of those who provide services to people with visual impairments.

BANA publishes rules, interprets and renders opinions pertaining to the standardization of braille and/or tactile graphics transcription.

BI provides materials with both print and braille in a unique, easy-to-use format that encourages shared reading and promotes braille awareness.

BI-UMS offers a free braille magazine subscription and a wide range of recreational reading in braille for for both children at a reasonable price.

CTEVH promotes acceptable practices and technology to enhance the total educational program for the visually impaired.

DAISY Consortium was formed in May, 1996 by talking book libraries to lead the worldwide transition from analog to Digital Talking Books.

HSB offers more than 90 distance education courses to eligible students, in the U.S. and Canada, completely free of charge.

ICEVI is an international association devoted to increasing access to education and rehabilitation services for blind and low vision persons worldwide.

ICEB's purpose is to coordinate and improve standards for braille usage for all English-speaking users of braille.

IJSE is only published on this website. Libraries and individuals are permitted to print out entire issues for educational purposes free of charge.

ISE is an information resource for parents, teachers, special educators, siblings, peers, students, child care and social workers and the community.

Lighthouse is committed to preventing visual disabilities and helping people live better with vision loss.

LSC's learn-by-doing apartment setting has helped to empower generations of visually impaired people to take charge of their own lives.

NBA's role is to provide continuing education to those who prepare braille, and to provide braille materials to persons who are visually impaired.

NBP is a nonprofit braille printer and publisher that offers blind children the power of literacy and blind adults access to the printed word.

NCTD is UK based and provides tactile diagrams, maps and pictures for blind and partially sighted people of all ages.

NFB's role is to help blind persons achieve self-confidence and self-respect and to act as a vehicle for collective self- expression by the blind.

NIMAS's role is to help define the best system for the production and delivery of instructional materials to students with perceptual disabilities in the US.

PSB is committed to helping those who are blind and visually impaired reach their greatest possible independence. Howe Press (Perkins Braillewriter).

RFB&D lends over 100,000 audiobook and digitally recorded CD titles for individuals with print disabilities.

RNIB offers information, services, support and advice to over two million people in the UK with sight problems.

Seedilings is dedicated to increasing the opportunity for literacy by providing high quality, low cost braille books for children.

SEI seeks to enhance the independence of qualified blind persons in the United States and Canada through the use of seeing eye dogs.

SCIVIS is a six-day program in Hunsville, Alabama, jam-packed with astronaut training for kids age 9-11.

TSBVI is a Texas based center for educational services for blind and visually impaired students, their parents and special educators.

Vision Australia is a living partnership between people who are blind, sighted or have low vision.

WAB's Dan Kish is a blind O & M Specialist and shows how the blind can be taught to "see" by using echolocation.

WBU is an internationally recognized organisation speaking on behalf of blind and partially sighted persons at the international level.

ATC supplies Braille Embossers, Braille Writers, Thermoform Machines, Swell Machines, paper, labeling material, and poly covers.

Apple has a large repository of assistive software and hardware.

Vancouver based company with assistive and adaptive products for blindness, low vision, communication aids, learning disability software and devices.

Producer of Braille 2000 and ED-IT PC, braille translation software.

Producer of Duxbury (DBT) and MegaDots, braille translation software.

Developer of products designed specifically for people who are legally blind and have macular degeneration and other low vision conditions.

Producer of adaptive technologies for people with visual impairment and blindness.

Producer of adaptive technologies for people with visual impairment and blindness.