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  • About Us
    • Contact Us
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Blindness and Visual Impairment Resources

This page has a list of resources for current and prospective students who are blind or visually impaired.  Deafblind resources are available on the page for students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.  Click here to return to the full list of disability-specific resources.

Tips for Blind College Students on Working with Your Professors

Self-Advocacy in Higher Education Toolkit and a Higher Education Accessibility Online Resource Center from National Federation of the Blind 

The Student Slate, a college student division of the NFB

Postsecondary Education for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired from Perkins School

The Low Vision Gateway

Some students benefit from working with Service Dogs. Some training centers include:
The Guide Dog Foundation
The Seeing Eye
Guide Dogs for the Blind in California
Video of Jennifer Coulter, a blind law student at the University of Texas Austin, talking about her experiences and accommodations
Tips for navigating the internet from NVISION.

Scholarships

Tools

American Council of the Blind scholarship programs
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National Federation of the Blind Scholarships

Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Bind and Visually Impaired  - Ferrell Scholarship for those pursuing education in service provision
You can find many textbooks in accessible formats at  Bookshare.org Once there, click on the "Get Started" tab

Your Disability Resource Center can help you find e-texts at the AccessText Network which works directly with publishers.

Some iOS and Android apps for Blind or Vision Impaired users

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The National Center for College Students with Disabilities (NCCSD) was developed through a four-year grant from the Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education (P116D150005), and administered through the Office for Postsecondary Education (originally funded via the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education). This grant funding ended on September 24, 2021. NCCSD is seeking additional funding at this time in order to continue.

The NCCSD is based at the Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD).  Please see caveats on the home page about assuming the NCCSD, AHEAD or the US Dept. of Education agree with all content on linked pages, and we can't guarantee the accessibility of other sites.

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