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About Braille from the National Braille Press (NBP). If your child or student is blind, you may be wondering whether or not they need to learn braille. Read on to find out more about how braille works, why it's important, and where to find braille resources.
The Braille Bug The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) created the Braille Bug web site to teach sighted children about braille, and to encourage literacy among all children.
Braille Displays:
- Blind and Low Vision Products AbleData's database of products for people with visual disabilities. Major Categories: Computers, Educational Aids, Health Care, Information Storage, Kitchen Aids, Labeling, Magnification, Office Equipment, Orientation and Mobility, Reading, Recreation, Sensors, Telephones, Time, Tools, Travel, Typing, Writing (Braille).
Duxbury Systems leads the world in software for braille. The Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT) and MegaDots, are used by virtually all of the world's leading braille publishers. No one supports more languages than Duxbury Systems—DBT supports grade 1 and grade 2 translation for over 130 languages. The software can produce contracted and uncontracted braille, mathematics, and technical braille.
Perkins Brailler Product Comparisons – Specifications manufacturing Braille Embossers for over 140 years. Updated
Howe Press & the Perkins Brailler History New
Humanware – Blindness products makers of the BrailleNote and BrailleNote PK, screen readers, embossers, reading machines talking GPS, and other items for blind, low vision, deaf/blind communication solutions.
Unified English Braille (UEB) is an English language Braille code standard, developed to permit representing the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today, in uniform fashion. From Wikipedia.
U.S. National Library Service (NLS) Factsheets: Web-Braille
See our Web-Braille page for more information about Web-Braille. New

National Literacy Directory (NLD) is a national database of literacy programs available on the Internet and at the Operator-Assisted Search Hotline: 1-877-389-6874. NLD provides listings for Early Childhood, Family Literacy, High School Equivalency/Adult Basic Education, English Language Learning, and Citizenship Classes. The NLD is managed by the National Center for Families Learning. Updated
DeafRead DeafRead is an aggregator that gathers posts from deaf blogs and vlogs from all over the internet into one website.
- DeafRead blogs list contains active and inactive blogs that feed the DeafRead site.
"Disability, Accessibility and Electronic Literacy" Special Topic in Currents in Electronic Literacy, Spring 2001 (No. 4)
Daisy Consortium The DAISY standard is now an official NISO standard and is also recognized by the Library of Congress and the W3C. "The DAISY Consortium's mission is to develop the International Standard and implementation strategies for the production, exchange, and use of Digital Talking Books in both developed and developing countries, with special attention to integration with mainstream technology, to ensure access to information for people with print disabilities."
Tutorial & Instructional Programs and Exercises Gallaudet University, Washington, DC Updated
International Literacy Association (ILA) is a nonprofit, global network of individuals and institutions committed to worldwide literacy. The Association supports literacy professionals through a wide range of resources, advocacy efforts, volunteerism, and professional development activities. Our members promote high levels of literacy for all
- Focus on Struggling Readers and Writers: International Literacy Association (ILA) Resources
- International Literacy Association SIGs
Learning Ally While Learning Ally remains a leading provider of audiobooks – including the world's largest library of audio textbooks – our organization has blossomed to become a critical resource to not only students in need, but also their parents, families, and educators. From delivering parent services, webinars and tools for managing a learning difference to providing links to support networks, certifiers and professionals in the field of learning disabilities, our goal is provide a community of support – online, on the phone and in person. We help parents manage the challenges that come with supporting a child with a reading and learning disability.
Sundance Literactive "Teaching Children to Read" Literactive is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten, and grade 1 students available online. The program is comprised of carefully leveled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities, and a wealth of supplemental reading material which gradually develop a child's reading skills in a sequential and enjoyable manner. Developed and approved by teachers and parents across the United States, Literactive is the acknowledged leader in early learning online. It also provides an ESL version in Spanish for every Guided Readers, e-Poetry, e-picture books, and learning activities. Updated
Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) This site offer an array of new, final publications from the old National Institute for Literacy (NIFL); the LINCS Resource Collections (online subject-oriented collections of high-quality instructional resources); archives of all NIFL webcasts; and a continuation of popular resources such as the news items and discussion lists.
WYNN Literacy Software to Aid Struggling Students from Freedom Scientific, makers of WYNN and TestTalker Updated
Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
Literacy Volunteers of the National Capital Area
Maryland Adult Education and Literacy Services Program Adult Education and Literacy Services is housed within the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation as part of the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning. Adults may prepare to earn a high school diploma through the GED® tests or the National External Diploma Program (NEDP).
Practice Math & Language Arts | K–12
Starfall for pre-kindergarten through second grade
"The Reading Connection: Literacy Development and Homeless Children," by Eileen Hanning, Assistant Program Director for The Reading Connection, Arlington, VA
The Reading Connection (TRC)
U.S. Department of Education: Help My Child Read, Reading Resources
Virginia Adult Learning Centers

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