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This page contains information about braille, its history and its remarkable inventor.... Details >

National Braille Association, Inc.  

This site provides information about the definition of low vision, and includes example of what people with low vision see.... Details >

Center for the Partially Sighted  

This pamphlet is designed to help people with age-related macular degeneration better understand the disease. It describes the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related macular degener... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Also available in: Spanish   

Age can bring changes that affect your eyesight. But regular eye exams can help. With early detection, many eye problems can be treated and your risk of vision loss reduced. ... Details >

National Institute on Aging Information Center

Amblyopia, commonly known as lazy eye, is the eye condition noted by reduced vision not correctable by glasses or contact lenses and is not due to any eye disease. This document provides information a... Details >

Optometrists Network  

This information fact sheet describes two vision conditions called amblyopia and strabismus. Amblyopia is the failure of one eye, although apparently healthy, to develop normal vision whereas strabism... Details >

Sight and Hearing Association  

The American Council of the Blind (ACB), the nation's leading membership organization of blind and visually impaired people, offers contact information on state, regional, and special-interest organiz... Details >

American Council of the Blind  

One in six adults aged 45 and older is affected by some type of vision problem. And the risk for vision loss increases with age. This article offers information about vision loss, including warning si... Details >

AARP  

This site provides a free resource for people who want to learn about the range and diversity of jobs performed by adults who are blind or visually impaired throughout the United States and Canada.... Details >

American Foundation for the Blind  

This information fact sheet describes cataracts as well as offers background information on the condition, causes of the condition, risk factors, and other known facts.... Details >

Sight and Hearing Association  

Online information on eye problems that specifically affect children. Some of these include amblyopia "lazy eye", stabismus, hyperopia (Farsightedness), and color blindness.... Details >

Prevent Blindness America  

Choice Magazine Listening is a free audio anthology for a special audience of blind, visually impaired, physically disabled, or dyslexic subscribers.... Details >

Choice Magazine Listening  

This interactive, searchable clinical trial database provides detailed information on ongoing and completed clinical trials supported and conducted by the NEI since 1970. This site is designed for pa... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) is a temporary or permanent visual impairment caused by the disturbance of the posterior visual pathways and/or the occipital lobes of the brain.... Details >

Blind Children's Fund  

Also available in: Spanish 

Taking this online quiz could help you recognize early warning signs of eye disease and make a decision to see your eye care professional as soon as possible for a diagnosis.... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Also available in: Spanish   

This fact sheet provides parents with ways to interact with their children and offers practical suggestions for giving children consistent sensory cues. The fact sheet suggests ways parents can recogn... Details >

National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness  

This site provides a list of newsletters published quarterly by the Low Vision Center. Recent issues are available here in both text (HTML) format and Portable Document Format (PDF). ... Details >

Low Vision Center  

This pamphlet has been written to help people with cataracts better understand the condition. It describes the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of cataracts... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

This pamphlet has been written to help people with diabetic retinopathy and their relations better understand the disease. It describes the cause, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetic retino... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can lead to damage to the eye's optic nerve and result in blindness. This pamphlet is designed to help people with glaucoma better understand the disease. It desc... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

This fact sheet provides information about presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) -- a serious eye disease that is a leading cause of vision loss. POHS infection, symptoms and treatment are di... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

This information fact sheet describes glaucoma, a group of diseases associated with increased pressure in the eye. The fact sheet offers background information on the condition, causes of the conditio... Details >

Sight and Hearing Association  

Understanding the basics of glaucoma is the first step to protecting your vision. Glaucoma leads to blindness by damaging the optic nerve. Elevated pressure in the eye is a risk factor, but even peop... Details >

Glaucoma Research Foundation  

Phakic intraocular lenses are new devices used to correct nearsightedness. These thin lenses are implanted permanently into the eye to help reduce the need for glasses or contact lenses. This web site... Details >

Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Also available in: Spanish   

This site provides information for those living with vision loss; includes topics such as getting around, reading and writing, everyday skills, adapting your home and more. ... Details >

American Foundation for the Blind  

This site helps you find different services available for the blind or visually impaired; including facilities, organizations and providers that offer specific services such as counseling, dog trainin... Details >

American Foundation for the Blind  

Also available in: Spanish 

Low vision means that even with regular glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery, people find everyday tasks difficult to do. Reading the mail, shopping, cooking, seeing the TV, and writing can s... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Also available in: Spanish 

This page answers three frequently asked questions about low vision: (1) "What is low vision?"; (2) "What causes low vision?"; and (3) "How many people have low vision?"... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

This site provides online publications and reports covering topics of interest to people with low vision and their families and friends. ... Details >

Center for the Partially Sighted  

Links to web sites and resources on health, aging, and low vision, along with information, tools and resources for AMD(age-related macular degeneration) patients, their families and older adults. Als... Details >

Macular Degeneration Partnership  

Prevent Blindness America (PBA) is a volunteer eye health and safety organization offering a wide variety of community services and information. PBA affiliates offer vision screening, volunteer opport... Details >

Prevent Blindness America  

The visually impaired are the second largest group of disabled people in the United States. Despite this fact, for the most part, the public--both lay and professional--is unaware of the myriad proble... Details >

National Association for Visually Handicapped  

This page provides important tips on how to manage the condition, including: lighting, everyday activities, computer, television, medication and more.... Details >

Low Vision Center  

The Braille Institute's five regional centers throughout the Southern California area offer services to help people with limited or no vision lead independent and enriched lives. ... Details >

Braille Institute  

This online document answers your questions about strabismus, a visual defect in which the eyes are not properly aligned.... Details >

Prevent Blindness America  

This online document provides a clinical description and treatment options for this genetic inherited disorder that is characterized by moderate to profound hearing impairment and progressive vision l... Details >

Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc.  

This page provides information on VISION ACCESS, a journal by, for, and about people with low vision.... Details >

Council of Citizens with Low Vision International  

Also available in: Spanish   

This fact sheet defines a range of visual impairments including the diagnosis of partially sited, low vision, legally blind, and totally blind. The incidence, characteristics, and educational implicat... Details >

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, U.S. Department of Education  

This document lists the many things and/or events that can cause a strabismus. They include genetics, inappropriate development of the "fusion center" of the brain, problems with the controlled center... Details >

Optometrists Network  

This article provides information about Keratoconus (KC), a non-inflammatory eye condition in which the normally round, dome-shaped cornea thins and becomes distorted. A cone-like bulge develops, resu... Details >

National Keratoconus Foundation  

Strabismus or tropia are the medical terms for eye conditions commonly called by various names: eye turns, crossed eyes, cross-eyed, wall-eyes, wandering eyes, deviating eye, etc. This document define... Details >

Optometrists Network  

Also available in: Spanish 

This booklet provides information about low vision and the resources that are available to help people with low vision live more safely and independently. Also available in Spanish.... Details >

National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health