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Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
Provides rehabilitation services for Virginians who are blind or visually impaired.
RAVE
The Roanoke Alliance for the Visually Enabled (R.A.V.E.) is a support group for blind and visually impaired men and women in the Roanoke Valley.
Roanoke Blind Bowling League
Contact Opal Ferris for more information.
Blinded Veterans Association Chapter
Open to any veteran with an honorable discharge. Contact Ed Walker for more information
Locally owned blind/low vision businesses
Click this link for a list of locally (Roanoke and New River Valley businessess owned by Blind/Low Vision individuals.
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
Records and distributes audio books for students and professionals.
ShopFoodEx.com
On-line grocery shopping with local Roanoke Area delivery service and nationwide shipping.
Labels For Literacy
Self Stick labels in braille and large print, distributed at no charge to those with vision and print impairments. Labels are available for many common brands and products.
National Braille Press
Transcribes books into Braille and sells them at the retail price of the original print edition, including children's books with interleaf Braille pages that enable parents who are blind to read to their children.
WVTF Public Radio, Roanoke, Virginia
Host station for the Virginia Tech Radio Reading Service, partly funded by Voice of the Blue Ridge
American Printing House for the Blind
Manufactures Braille, large type, recorded, computer disk, and tactile graphic publications, as well as a wide assortment of educational and daily living products.
American Foundation for the Blind
Dedicated to addressing the critical issues of literacy, independent living, employment, and access through technology for the ten million Americans who are blind or visually impaired.
Lighthouse International
Strives to overcome vision impairment for people of all ages through worldwide leadership in rehabilitation services, education, research, prevention and advocacy.
Enabling Technologies
Manufactures and sells Braille embossers, including the popular Juliet.
Freedom Scientific
Vendor for a variety of special software and appliances including Jaws for Windows screen reader, Open Book scanning software, Magic screen-magnification software, note takers, Braille displays, and Braille embossers.
GW Micro
Developer and vendor for Window Eyes Screen Reader.
MaxiAids.com
Products for Independent Living. For blind, low vision, deaf, disabled, handicapped
Bookshare.org
Makes available to subscribers scanned and braille copies of books.
Pulse Data HumanWare
Specializes in assistive technology for persons who have difficulties reading print due to blindness, low vision, or learning and/or reading disabilities
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