National Association for Visually Handicapped - NAVH

Organization URL(s)

Other Contact Information

22 West 21st Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10010

212-889-3141 (Voice)
212-727-2931 (FAX)

Description

This is a national voluntary health agency founded in 1954 to provide services for the partially seeing. NAVH has supplied services to all 50 states and 98 foreign countries, including a FREE by-mail large print loan library available throughout the United States; counseling and referral to "Hard of Seeing" adults, children, and their families; self-help discussion groups for visually impaired adults and seniors; distribution of a wide array of visual aids worldwide; public and professional educational programs to help enlighten all to the needs of the low vision person; and, emotional support services to supply low vision individuals an opportunity to retain independence, hope, and dignity. NAVH also conducts testing of optical aids and lighting available from commercial sources, and serves as consultant to commercial publishers seeking the NAVH Seal of Approval for NAVH large-print standards.

Online Resources

Psychological Effects Of Low Vision
http://www.navh.org/psycheff.html

Print Resources

NAVH publishes and distributes numerous educational materials and pamphlets in English, Russian, Spanish and some Chinese--many in large print. An information kit, which contains a complete listing of all publications, is available upon request. In addition, its large print Visual Aids and Loan Library Catalogs are also offered free to members and for a small fee to non-members. The navh UPDATE, a quarterly large print newsletter is available free to anyone upon request. A regional office at 3201 Balboa Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, serves Alaska, Hawaii, and the 11 western States. Requests from all other States are served by the National office in New York.