 VERMONT RESOURCES FOR THE BLINDFor information about services available to you in your state, please contact:The national Federation of the Blind (NFB) of VermontFranklin Shiner, President 1 Mechanic Street, Apartment 214 Montpelier, Vermont 05602 Phone: 802-229-0748 fshiner@myfairpoint.net For services to blind children and their parents offered by the NFB:(NFB) National Organization of Parents of Blind ChildrenLaura Weber, President Home: 832-569-4547 Email: president@nopbc.org Website: www.nfb.org/nopbc For services relating to adults offered by the NFB:NFB Training CentersBLIND, Incorporated (Blindness: Learning in New Dimensions, Incorporated) Shawn Mayo, Director 100 East 22nd Street South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404 Phone: 612-872-0100 Toll Free: 800-597-9558 Fax: 612-872-9358 Email: info@blindinc.org Website: http://www.blindinc.org/ Colorado Center for the Blind Louisiana Center for the Blind NFB commitment to making the Internet accessible to the blind:The “NFB Nonvisual Accessibility Web Certification” program was created by working with members of the technology community. Together we have developed a rigorous procedure by which Web sites and applications can be evaluated and made to be accessible to the blind. Contact us for more information about becoming certified, becoming a WAC, or on the program in general, please contact Anne Taylor: Resources available within Vermont:For services to blind children and their parents offered by Vermont agencies:Division of Special Education Special Education Services Karin Edwards, Director State Office Building 120 State Street Montpelier, Vermont 05620 Phone: 802-828-5118 Fax: 802-828-0573 Website: http://education.vermont.gov/new/html/pgm_sped.html For services relating to adults offered by Vermont agencies:Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired Agency of Human Services Weeks IC 103 South Main Street Waterbury, Vermont 05671-2304 Phone: 802-241-2210 Library Services:Vermont Department of Libraries For more information about blindness, please contact the Jacobus tenBroek Library of the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute at 410-659-9314or send a message to jtblibrary@nfb.org |