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Keren Or provides education, rehabilitative therapies, and comprehensive day-services for children in Israel who are blind or visually impaired and also have cognitive, developmental, or physical disabilities. Its New York office supports fundraising, outreach, and donor engagement to sustain the Center’s programs.

Access Virginia is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was created to provide open captioning and audio description at live theatrical performances so that Deaf/Hard of Hearing and Blind/Visually Impaired persons can attend performances and experience the wonder of live entertainment at public facilities.

BC Guide Dog Services began the professional training of guide dogs for blind & visually impaired British Columbians in 1996. In 2001, B.C. Guide Dog Services became full members of the International Guide Dog Federation, an international accrediting body. In 2002, B.C. Guide Dog Services registered the title Alberta Guide Dog Services for the purposes of providing guide dogs to blind & visually impaired Albertans. The goal of BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services is, by the year 2020, to have a working guide dog population of 250 guide dog teams. The working life of a guide dog team is about eight years, therefore, BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services will need to have graduated a cumulative total of 395 guide dog teams by 2020 to achieve this goal. BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services gives priority to blind & visually impaired youths between the ages of 13 and 18 years. Alberta Guide Dog Services, PO Box 5471, Stn A, Calgary, AB T2H 1X8 Tel: 403-258-0819.

One Kids Place Children's Treatment Centre offers a range of community-based rehabilitation services to help children and youth with special needs and their families. OUR SERVICES: PHYSIOTHERAPY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPY; SOCIAL WORK; THERAPEUTIC RECREATION; INFANT HEARING PROGRAM; BLIND/LOW VISION PROGRAM; SPECIALIZED CLINICS

Our mission as an organization is to promote God’s heart for the fatherless, bringing their plight to the awareness of the church and global community. We encourage the church as a whole to take action by praying, going, giving, sponsoring, and adopting. In countries where Fields of Promise has a humanitarian presence, this mission will expand to relieving and eliminating problems associated with poverty, blindness, special medical needs, and educational deficits.

Best Day Foundation helps children with special needs build confidence and self-esteem through safe, fun, adventure activities like surfing, bodyboarding, kayaking, outrigger canoeing, SUP, snow-tubing, and more. Please join us in creating special days for kids with Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Blindness, Cancer, Spinal Cord Injuries, and other physical and developmental challenges!

SERVICES ONTARIO EARLY YEARS Programs which include parenting courses, workshops, emergent literacy, single parent groups, groups for mothers and their infants and drop-in sessions. ESSEX PRESCHOOL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE (TALK 2 ME) Offers assessment and a range of intervention services for families who have concerns about their child’s speech, language or emergent literacy skills, from birth to the year they start school. ESSEX-KENT INFANT HEARING PROGRAM Offers universal newborn hearing screening, high risk monitoring and additional services for families of children identified with a permanent hearing loss living in Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent counties. ESSEX-KENT BLIND-LOW VISION PROGRAM Offers specialized family-centred services for children who are born blind or with low vision. VOLUNTEER / STUDENT PLACEMENT PROGRAM This program offers orientation, training and supervision to community volunteers and student placements.

The mission of the Center for the Visually Impaired is to empower people impacted by vision loss to live with independence and dignity.>We serve anyone with vision loss from partially sighted to fully blind. >Regardless of age or income level, CVI has four programs to suit the needs at each life-stage.>Operate an onsite retail store with a wide assortment of aids for the visually impaired.>Central, convenient location in Midtown Atlanta.

We provide essential and transformative eyecare, around the world and right here at home. We bring medical volunteers and partners together to care for the people who need it most. Our teams work side-by-side with local doctors and clinics to improve access to high-quality eyecare. Together we break the cycle of hardship that blindness and visual impairment cause, making patients, families, and communities healthier and stronger.

The Boys & Girls Club of Lynn encourages the positive development and enhances the quality of life for the youth of the greater Lynn area, by providing service based on principles of behavioral guidance, social, educational, vocational, character, athletic and leadership disciplines, the Club will be a safe, welcoming and positive environment for all youth. The club's mission is to serve as a family and community resource, on a need-blind basis, that works through other agencies, its members, civic leaders and clergy to achieve these goals.

Aravind Eye Foundation was established in 2000 to promote sustainable, high-quality, patient-centric eye care and eliminate needless blindness throughout the world. It does so by sharing best practices and facilitating partnerships with universities, social enterprises, other non-profits, and interested individuals and through its targeted investment in capacity building, community outreach, medical research, and patient support. Aravind Eye Foundation is part of the internationally renowned Aravind Eye Care System.

The CDBA was formed in 1975 by parents of children with deafblindness who were attending the W. Ross Macdonald School for Students who are Blind and Deafblind in Brantford, Ontario. Initially, the CDBA was an advocacy organization representing a small group of children born with deafblindness largely from the congenital rubella epidemic. Its mission has been expanded from advocacy to include service provision, awareness, public education and research. The CDBA is inclusive and represents all Canadians with deafblindness.