Braille: Every Day, Every Way

This organization is very active in the literacy campaign, research, publishing consulting, and legislative lobbying around issues important to blind and low vision persons. They produce many publications of interest to professionals and family members of blind and low vision persons.

Career Connect: a data base of blind mentors in a wide variety of professions who are willing to share their experiences with other blind youth and adults who may be seeking information or employment.

Braille Bug: a section of the website designed especially for children, blind and sighted, where they can share ideas, learn about braille and read and discuss books together.

A primary educational resource center for blind and visually impaired students (infants through high school), it also sells to the public a wide variety of braille embossing equipment, braille books, software, games and toys appropriate for blind children and adults.

The Braille Rap Song http://www.aph.org/edresearch/braille_rap/index.html

APH houses the Callahan Museum, a historical exhibit of a wide variety of products used by the blind; and the Hall of Fame honoring many who have served in education or rehabilitation of the blind.

Producers and distributors of braille paper, braille label paper, braille embossers, binding equipment and supplies.

Tactile greeting cards, tactile graphics, books, and other educational materials all emphasizing tactile graphics.

Sale of "Driver Reads Braille" license plate holder

This vendor sells print/braille books, including current popular and classic titles. A book-of-the-month club is available in four age categories. Personal orders allow any book to be brailled and rebound.

This vendor offers a new print-braille children's book every month for children in preschool through third grade. The same children's picture book available at any store is enriched with the identical text in braille embossed on transparent plastic
sheets. You may receive a free monthly notice of the featured book with no obligation to buy, or for a flat annual fee, receive the monthly selections
automatically.

They also produce many print/braille and braille books for all ages including baby board books, fiction, biographies, computer reference sheets and manuals, how-to books, braille calendars, braille valentines and more.

This U.S. government agency administers a national library service that loans braille and recorded books and magazines free to anyone who cannot read standard print because of visual or physical disabilities. There are many regional libraries around the country.

Provides a free braille transcription certification course for U.S. citizens.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/index.html

WebBraille: downloadable braille files of most children’s and adult reading material produced for the Library of Congress since the late 1990’s including children’s and adult fiction and nonfiction, the Braille Book Review magazine and braille music scores.

Conundrum Magazine: a magazine of word games and puzzles. Just one of many magazines available to the patrons of this library.

Flexi-paper: A specially treated paper on which you can draw a graphic or picture Using a photocopier, HP deskjet printer, soft lead pencil or a china marker. This picture must then be exposed to heat using specially designed equipment for this purpose such as:

Tactile Image Enhancer: The device through which the Flexi-paper is passed to heat up the paper and raise the image.

Thermo Pen: An inkless, heated-tipped pen which is used to draw on special paper such as the Flexi-Paper to immediately raise the image.

This vendor sells a variety of braille books for children ages 1 to 14.

Seedlings also offers The Rose Project, a free service that provides braille versions of World Book encyclopedia articles for visually impaired students in grades 1 to 12 upon request.