Welcome to NAC's External News Portal for the Latest News for the Blind & Visually Impaired
NAC is proud to incorporate news & information regarding advances affecting the blind & visually impaired. If you would like to have news considered for inclusion send us a note, along with relevant information via the contact form on our
contact page or reach us using the information at the bottom of this page.
Here are links directly to organizations we are proud to have relationships with:
(below are individual links to specific articles from various organizations we have relationships with)
Information provided by our scholarly board member, Graham Strong, O. D.
The Center on Rehabilitation Synergy @ SUNY Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Finding and keeping a good job can be a challenge for anyone in this economy. Imagine the extra difficulties for someone with a serious disability.
The Center on Rehabilitation Synergy, a new center at the University at Buffalo, has done just that, and more. In a few short years, the center, headed by David Burganowski, Ph.D., a UB research professor and director of the Graduate School of Education's rehabilitation counseling program, has become a leader in showing state agencies, schools, families and businesses how to help people with disabilities become independent by becoming successfully employed.
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Outlook, the National Eye Health Education Program's (NEHEP) Fall Newsletter
Letter From the Chair of the NEHEP Planning Committee
November has been declared "American Diabetes Month" by the American Diabetes Association and "Diabetic Eye Disease Month" by Prevent Blindness America. Proper care for individuals with diabetes can prevent blindness, but how can we communicate the importance of regular eye exams to the millions of people with diabetes?
In This Issue:
Letter From the Chair of the NEHEP Planning Committee
Variables That Influence the Receipt of Eye Care: Focus Group Report
Diabetic Eye Disease: What You Can Do To Make a Difference
NEI Launches Online News Magazine
InfantSEE(r) Pilot Program Tests New Awareness Efforts
PBA Receives MCHB Grant To Create National Center To Save Sight
Macular Degeneration Partnership Targets AMD Risk Groups
Defining Blindness Prevention
Wills Eye Institute Launches Online Learning Portal for Ophthalmologists
NOA Three Silent Killers Program
OSUCO Students Provide Service and Gain Experience
CDC's Commitment to Vision Loss Prevention and Eye Health Promotion-New Website
Healthy Vision Community Awards Spotlight: Prairie Band Potawatomi Health Center
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Lions Vision Research and Rehabilitation Center, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Low Vision Rehabilitation Network (LVRN) & Low Vision Project Site
This site describes collaborative research and development projects that involve the Lions Vision Research and Rehabilitation Center at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. This site also is the gateway to the Low Vision Rehabilitation Network (LVRN). We invite you to join the LVRN so that you can follow progress and participate in collaborative projects. You can read descriptions of the projects by clicking on the links in the menu bar above. To join the LVRN, click on the link in the left-hand panel and fill out the enrollment form. Under "How to Use This Site" in the menu bar above, you can find responses to a list of frequently asked questions.
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Outlook, the National Eye Health Education Program's (NEHEP) Summer Newsletter
Letter From the Chair of the NEHEP Planning Committee
Two of the articles in this issue of Outlook focus on the challenge of access to care. Variables That Influence Access to Eye Care discusses findings from NEI-supported interviews with officials from five government agencies and five nongovernmental organizations about factors that influence the receipt of health care and eye care, specifically considering care that may prevent vision loss. FocusFirst: An Alabama Student Vision Initiative, featured in the Healthy Vision Community Awards Spotlight, discusses efforts being made to address the vision care problems of children living in poverty in Alabama, where a variety of barriers exist in both rural and urban areas to the provision of proper eye care.
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National Eye Institute Celebrates Healthy Vision Month
New Online Features Translate
Vision Science to Everyday Life
Nearly 14 million Americans experience vision problems, ranging from the need for glasses to blindness. The National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, supports vision research that leads to sight-saving treatments for these conditions. During Healthy Vision Month this May, NEI unveils three online resources for the public to get an inside look at the research process and its impact on public health ...
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Vision Rehabilitation Evidence-Based Review (VREBR) has amassed a collection of
Comprehensive Evidence-Based Reviews of Rehabilitation Interventions and Services
for the blind & visually impaired.
The Vision Rehabilitation Evidence-Based Review (VREBR) is a comprehensive evidence-based review of rehabilitation interventions and services for the blind and visually impaired. Designed as a systematic research synthesis, VREBR modules serve as an authoritative reference to unmet research needs and a compelling stimulus for partnerships among agencies with allied interests in vision health -
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Seminars@Hadley Presents
Update Your Knowledge About Common Eye Conditions and Earn Credits
through The Hadley School for the Blind, 700 Elm St. , Winnetka, IL 60093
If you are a blindness professional or paraprofessional interested in convenient and affordable continuing education, consider the following online Hadley courses. Learn more
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