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- Job Accommodation Network: www.jan.wvu.edu
JAN is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities by:
1) providing individualized worksite accommodations solutions, 2) providing technical assistance regarding the ADA and other disability related legislation, and 3) educating callers about self-employment options.
- ADA Homepage: www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm
This is the homepage for the Department of Labor’s American’s with Disabilities Act information.
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission “Questions and Answers about Blindness and Vision Impairments in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act”- www.eeoc.gov/facts/blindness.html
All of your questions answered about what your rights are as a blind or visually impaired worker.
- Sensory Access Foundation www.sensoryaccess.com
Assists people who are blind or visually impaired to obtain or retain competitive employment by providing the highest quality access technology assessment, computer training, job placement and accommodation services with a goal of achieving 100% job retention.
- LightHouse Adaptations Store 888-400-8933, www.adaptationsonline.com
- Revolution Enterprises, Inc. 800-382-5132, www.advantagecanes.com
- Ambutech Canes, 800-561-3340, www.ambutech.com
- American Printing House for the Blind, 800-223-1839, www.aph.org
- Bossert Specialties, Inc. 800-776-5885, www.wemagnify.com
- Howe Press, 617-924-3490, www.perkins.org
- Independent Living Aids(ILA), 800-537-2118 www.independentliving.com
- Innovative Rehabilitation TechnolRogy Inc. 800-322-4784 www.irti.net
- LS&S Group, 800-468-4789, www.lssgroup.com
- MaxiAids, www.maxiaids.com
- Physical Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide, www.scarecrowpress.com
- Welcoming Students with Visual Impairment to your School, www.perkins.org
- American Foundation for the Blind, www.afb.org
- Blind Babies Foundation, www.blindbabies.org
- Blind Children’s Center, www.blindchildrenscenter.org
- Blind and Visually Impaired Center of Monterey County, www.blindandlowvision.org
- Blindness Support Services, www.blindnesssupport.com
- Braille Institute of America, www.brailleinstitute.org
- California Association of Blind Students, www.nfbcal.org
- California Department of Rehabilitation, Blind Field Services, Transition Services for blind and visually impaired high school aged youth, www.dor.ca.gov
- California School for the Blind, www.csb-cde.ca.gov
- Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, www.cbvi.org
- Center for the Partially Sighted, www.low-vision.org
- Earle Baum Center of the Blind, www.earlebaum.org
- Guide Dogs for the Blind, www.guidedogs.com
- Intercommunity Blind Center, www.intercommunityblindcenter.org
- Junior Blind of America, www.juniorblind.org
- LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, www.lighthouse-sf.org
- The Hatlen Center for the Blind, www.hcblind.org
- Orientation Center for the Blind, www.rehab.cahwnet.gov
- San Diego Center for the Blind, www.sdcb.org
- Santa Clara Valley Blind Center Inc, www.visionbeyondsight.org
- Sensory Access Foundation, www.sensoryaccess.com
- Society for the Blind, www.societyfortheblind.org
- Valley Center for the Blind, www.valleycenterblind.org
- Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, www.vistacenter.org
- A peer advocate's internet resource guide on vision loss survival
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