- Adaptive
Innovations
Adaptive Innovations is committed to the development of new,
innovative and upgradeable software and technology to assist the
visually challenged in their quest for employment within the call
center and other industries.
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Advocates for Sight Impaired
Consumers
We are an independent Canadian consumer driven advocacy coalition. We
address issues affecting people who are blind, sight impaired or deaf-blind.
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Alliance for Equality
of Blind Canadians (AEBC)
The Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC), formerly the National
Federation for the Blind: Advocates for Equality, is a consumer group of
blind, partially sighted, and deaf-blind adults, parents of the aforementioned
and other interested individuals, with a common goal to preserve and enhance
the rights of such persons in Canada through public education, advocacy, and
other initiatives.
- AmbuTech
Canadian producer of canes for the visually impaired.
- Aroga
Technologies
Canadian distributor of assistive technology.
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Association québécoise de la
dégénérescence maculaire (AQDM)
Organization in Quebec, Canada, for people with macular degeneration.
(In French)
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Atlantic
Provinces Special Education
Authority
APSEA serves children and youth from birth to 21 years of age who
are visually impaired and reside in Atlantic Canada.
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AudioVision
Canada’s first and best supplier of described movies, TV shows and other
video products.
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Balance
BALANCE is a not-for-profit organization located in Toronto. Since 1986
BALANCE has enabled many visually impaired and blind adults to live
independently.
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CBM Canada
The Canadian site of the international Christian development
organisation whose primary purpose is to improve the quality of life of the
world's poorest persons with disabilities and those at risk of disability,
who live in the most disadvantaged societies.
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Blind
and Visually Impaired Education
(Manitoba)
The Blind/Visually Impaired Unit of the Student Services Branch
provides educational support services for students in Manitoba
schools who are Blind or Visually Impaired.
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Blind Sailing
Association of Canada
The Blind Sailing Association of Canada was formed to provide opportunities
for the blind to improve their quality of life by building self esteem and
confidence through recreational sailing.
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Braille
Jymico
Producer of braille and raised graphics in Canada. (Also in French)
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British Columbia
Blind Sports and Recreation Association (BCBSRA)
BCBSRA is a not for profit association of individuals who are blind,
visually impaired, deaf-blind, or are blind and have additional disabilities;
and their families and other supporters.
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Canadian
Braille Authority (CBA)
CBA is comprised of a committed and dedicated group of users, producers
and teachers of braille who work together for a common purpose, the promotion
of braille as a primary medium for persons who are blind. (Also in French).
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Canadian
Council of the Blind
The Canadian Council of the Blind is a national self-help consumer
organization "of" persons blind, deaf-blind and visually impaired. (Also in
French)
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Canadian Helen Keller Centre
The Canadian Helen Keller Centre is a training centre dedicated to providing
services and training needed by Canadians who are Deafblind.
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Canadian
National Institute for the Blind
(CNIB)
A rich and well structured information source.
- Canadian
National Society of the Deaf-blind
(CNSDB)
A national consumer-run advocacy association dedicated to helping deaf-blind
people across Canada. (Also in French)
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Daas Counsulting
Canadian company marketing a Vision Simulator Kit that will help you teach
sighted individuals about different vision disorders and increase their
understanding of the challenges faced by a person with a visual impairment.
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Fondation des Aveugles du
Québec
Association of visually impaired people in the province of Quebec,
Canada. (In French)
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Foundation
Fighting Blindness - Canada
Our mission is to promote and support research directed to finding
the cause, developing a treatment and ultimately a cure, for RP
and related retinal degenerations, including macular degeneration
and Usher syndrome.
- Frontier
Computing
Distributor in Canada of access technology.
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Glenvale Players
The Glenvale Players are a company of blind and low vision theatre artists
offering a stunning contribution of dramatic innovative presentations to the
Toronto Community theatre scene.
Guide Dog Users of Canada
Our organizations primary goals are to educate the general public, and
advocate for Guide Dog users who run into problems with accessability, etc.
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Institut
Nazareth et Louis-Braille
A rehabilitation center in Quebec. (In French)
- Joe
Clark
Canadian site presentred by Joe Clark, Toronto
writer–accessibility obsessif–curmudgeon.
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John Milton Society for the
Blind in Canada
The John Milton Society for the Blind In Canada is a national ecumenical
organization dedicated to providing Christian materials in alternative
formats to blind, deafblind and visually impaired Canadians.
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Judy's
Jolts of Hope
My name is Judy, and I have been recently told I have the eye
condition known as macular degeneration. In April 1999, I was
diagnosed with the wet exudative form of MD in the right eye, and
dry atrophic MD in the left.
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L'Association québécoise de la dégénérescence maculaire (AQDM)
Organizationb of French speaking Canadians suffering from macular
diseases. (In French)
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Microcomputer
Science Centre
For 20 years, Microcomputer Science Centre has helping Canadians
with a wide variety of disabilities gain access to
computers.
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Montreal
Association for the Blind
Offering rehabilitation adjustment and social services to chiefly
English speaking persons who reside in the Montreal region as well
as those from other regions of Quebec as needed.
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National
Broadcast Reading Service
NBRS' services include: VoicePrint - Canada's 24-hour audio
newsstand. AudioVision Canada - Described movies! "See" the action
in your mind's eye. AlternateMedia Canada - Technical
partnerships.
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National Coalition for
Vision Heath
The National Coalition for Vision Heath is a non-profit coalition of
Canadian organizations and service providers of vision care industry,
research, education, rehabilitation and consumers.
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On-Sight
Independence
On-Sight Independence is a non-profit organization providing service to
visually impaired persons and their families in Western British Columbia,
Canada.
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Ontario Blind Sports
Association (OBSA)
OBSA plans, promotes, co-ordinates and anctions events and activities
designed to stimulat and assist the further development of sports programs
for blind athletes in Ontario.
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Personal
Communication Systems
A Victoria, BC-based company which provides microcomputer hardware
and software both locally and nationally.
- Philip
E. Layton School
An English Montreal School Board School located on the grounds of
the Montreal Association for the Blind serving students with
visual impairments registered in the English language school
system throughout Quebec.
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Provincial Resource Centre
for the Visually Impaired (PRCVI)
PRCVI is a Ministry of Education Provincial Resource Program, hosted by
the Vancouver School Board (VSB). The mission is to provide leadership,
information, training and consultation to support school districts' goals of
equitable access and enhanced learning opportunities for students with visual
impairments.
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Regroupement
des aveugles et amblyopes du Québec
(RAAQ)
Le RAAQ est un organisme provincial regroupant des organismes
locaux de personnes ayant une déficience visuelle. Leur but
est de favoriser leur intégration pleine et entière
à la société québécoise. (In
French)
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Regroupement
des Aveygles et Amblyopes du Montréal
Métropolitan
Le RAAMM regroupe principalement des personnes aveugles et
amblyopes qui sont seules habilitées à siéger
à son conseil d'administration. (In French)
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RPResearch
We have the most comprehensive opthamology directory on Web.
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Sarnia
Lambton CCB White Cane Club
Founded in 1952, it exists as an active, vibrant, progressive club
within the community of Sarnia, and county of Lambton. The initial
focus was peer support through social interactions. While this
remains an integral element in the Club's philosophy, over the
years the club mandate has expanded and continues to
evolve.
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Saskatchewan Blind
Sports Association
The Saskatchewan Blind Sports Association is a volunteer-based,
not-for-profit organization that facilitates provincial, national, and
international sport opportunities for Saskatchewan residents who are legally
blind or visually impaired.
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Special
Education Technology British Columbia
(SET-BC)
SET-BC is a Provincial Resource Program designed to assist school
districts in British Columbia in meeting the technology needs of
students with physical disabilities and visual
impairments.
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Special Needs
Computer Solutions
Special Needs Computer Solutions (ADP Vendor) provides the latest in
Assistive Technology (AT) solutions for disabled children and adults in
Canada.
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Tactile Vision
Developer of a raised printing method that produces easily readable tactile
graphics and Braille for the Blind and Vision Impaired. Tactile Vision Inc.
has developed a new raised printing method which involves the deposition of a
polymer on a wide range of papers.
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University
of Toronto Adaptive Technology
Center
Vision Technology Service and Internet access for the
disabled.
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ViewsOn.ca
Advocay and support for children who are blind or have low vision and
their families in Canada.
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Vision Health Research Council
The Vision Health Research Council is working to link researchers across
Canada to develop an integrated research community capable of responding to
the expanding health research needs of our people. (Also in French)
- VisuAide
VisuAide is developing and marketing of innovative assistive
products for the visually impaired.
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VoicePrint
The flagship service of N.B.R.S.(National Broadcast Reading Service),
VoicePrint has been broadcasting 24 hours a day since December 1, 1990. While
VoicePrint's core target audience are blind or vision-impaired Canadians,
more than 500,000 Canadians from all walks of life cite VoicePrint as their
main source of news and information.
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W. Ross
Macdonald School
Special school in Ontario, Canada, offering alternative educational and
residential living placement for students who are blind, deafblind, or have
low-vision.