blindness and low vision

The following blindness and low vision services are listed on the Vision Australia website:

Vision Australia is a not-for-profit organisation and Australia's largest provider of services for people with blindness and low vision.

The organisation focuses on preventing avoidable blindness and on treating blindness and low vision when it is correctable.

The organisations that merged to form Vision Australia have a long and proud history of providing services to the blindness and low vision community in Australia.

The design of the exhibit was a collaboration by a group of visually impaired people, tactile cartographers, perceptual psychologists, model makers and specialists on blindness and low vision.

In 2002, Abraham established the SCORE Foundation, a non-profit organisation which launched Project Eyeway as a single- stop knowledge resource for people living with blindness and low vision.

The inclusion of guide dog services will mean that for the first time in the history of the blindness community of Australia, one national organisation will be able to provide all the services required by the blindness and low vision community.

Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these.

Mrs. Bron is one of a growing number of visually impaired people who are using computers and new technology to enter the work force, said Dawn Suvino, coordinator of blindness and low vision service at the Westchester Institute for Human Development.