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Visually Impaired Schools

Editor recommended websites offering information on visually impaired schools for special needs students who are blind or partially blind.

Editor Recommended Visually Impaired School Resources
  • Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB) - Extensive education and rehabilitation system supporting children and adults who are deaf, blind and multidisabled.
  • California School for the Blind - Offers extensive educational services to students of California who are visually impaired, deaf/blind, and visually impaired/multi-handicapped from birth to age 21. These services will be offered in order to enable students to lead vocationally, personally, and socially successful lives resulting in their highest level of independence.
  • The Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB) - Helps deaf and blind students throughout the state of Colorado. Besides on-campus school programs, CSDB offers outreach services for school districts and parents around Colorado.
  • Ebenezer School & Home for the Visually Impaired (Hong Kong) - Offer blind and low-vision students and elderly special services such as education & rehabilitation, and care & attention services respectively.
  • Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind - Public residential school developed for students with sensory impairments.
  • Georgia Academy for the Blind - Georgia's sole residential institute for the blind. The school includes programs for deaf-blind and multidisabled youth.
  • Governor Morehead School - Offers a free, public education as well as other services which deal with social, physical, intellectual and emotional traits of the total development of children possessing visual impairments.
  • Indiana School for the Blind - Provides pre-school through high school programs, free of charge on a residential or day school basis, to the young people of Indiana who are blind and visually impaired. The school also offers students with training in the same coursework required of all school-aged children in Indiana. Customized courses featuring orientation and mobility, adaptive physical education, independent living skills, vocational education, music instruction, Braille and specially adapted computer technology.
  • Kansas State School for the Blind - Strives to achieve equal access to a high quality education every Kansas student that is blind or visually impaired.
  • Kentucky School for the Blind - Offers an array of educational programming, customized materials, and information to Kentucky students who are blind or visually impaired.
  • Maryland School for the Blind - A private, not-for-profit school assisting children from infancy through age 21 who are blind, visually impaired and multiply disabled.
  • Missouri School for the Blind - A day school featuring a residential component assissting 1,200 blind and visually impaired children ages of 0-21. A statewide resource center of educational excellence designed for parents, families, and local school districts helping children with significant vision loss.
  • Montana School For The Deaf And The Blind - Offers educational services to deaf and hard of hearing and blind and low vision children that are impaired such that their natural progression is stunted in regular public schools.
  • New Mexico School for theVisually Handicapped - Objective is to offer the training, support and resources needed to help the blind / visually / multiply impaired children across New Mexico enjoy full participation with families, community, and work force and to lead independent, productive lives.
  • The New York Institute for Special Education - Private, not-for-profit, non-sectarian educational facility conducting quality programs for children that are blind or visually disabled, emotionally and learning disabled and pre-schoolers who experience developmental delays.
  • Oklahoma School for the Blind - The school's objective is to realize the educational needs of blind and visually impaired students who are residents of Oklahoma by offering a program to assist students in realizing their maximum potential.
  • Oregon School for the Blind - Helps students with visual impairments possessing educational needs above and beyond which the local school district and regional program can offer.
  • Overbrook School for the Blind - A private, not-for-profit, non-sectarian educational facility featuring quality programs for children who are blind or otherwise visually disabled, or emotionally and learning disabled.
  • The Pattaya School for the Blind - Offers free residential instruction for underpriveleged blind children who might otherwise miss out on education. Based in Thailand.
  • Perkins School For The Blind - Provides blind, visually handicapped, multi-handicapped blind, and deaf blind learners and clients on a daily or residential basis.
  • Royal Blind School - A national school offering for the special educational needs adolescents possessing visual impairments. Based in Edinburgh.
  • Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children - Descriptive details on how the institute offers globally recognized educational programs for kids possessing sensory disabilities.
  • South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind (SCSDB) - Offers services statewide specifically for deaf, blind and sensory multidisabled individuals (children and adults), including their families and the professionals who work side by side with them. SCSDB provides programs for preschool, elementary, middle school, high school, sensory multidisabled, vocational and postsecondary educational learners, including a variety of outreach and support services.
  • St. Lucy Day School for Children with Visual Impairments - Special education school in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia offering visually impaired students from a five county area.
  • Tennessee School for the Blind (TSB) - Special resource for Tennesseans from birth through high school that are blind or visually impaired and for others who offer them with care and services. TSB provides details, education, counseling and technical support to families and schools in local communities including children enrolled as residential or day school students.
  • Texas School For The Blind And Visually Impaired - A site for educational services developed for all blind and visually impaired students within Texas.
  • Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind - Strives to offer high-quality direct and indirect services for sensory-impaired children from birth through age 21 across the state of Utah.
  • Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind - Formed to offer comprehensive educational services to deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired children needing personalized instruction not available in local public schools.
  • Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children - The school's objective is to offer great opportunities for training and education to students who, besides visual impairment, are impaired by other serious conditions. The school is committed to assisting all students obtain as much independence as possible so students can experience positive companionship of family, friends, and the community. School provides support to families and serves as a resource for the general public.
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