Deaf Blindness

Contact – Lorie Pacheco or your EA EA/LEA assignments

Deaf-blindness means concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness. (34 CFR Sec. 300.8(c)(2))

Resources

American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

800-233-1839
www.afb.org

American Printing House for the Blind

(APH) 800-223-1839
www.aph.org
Email: info@aph.org

Association for the Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visually Impaired

703-671-4500
www.aerbvi.org
Email: aer@aerbvi.org

Helen Keller National Center for Deaf- blindness

516-944-8900
www.hknc.org
Email: hkncinfo@hknc.org

Learning Ally (formerly Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic)

Toll free: 800-221-4792
http://www.learningally.org/

Library of Congress

Toll free: 800-424-8567
www.loc.gov/nls

Local Lions Club

www.lionsclubs.org

National Center on Deaf-Blindness

Toll free: 877-614-4051
www.nationaldb.org

New Mexico Academy of Ophthalmology

505-366-3273
www.nmao.org

New Mexico Commission for the Blind

http://www.cfb.state.nm.us

New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Toll free: 800-437-3505
www.nmsvh.k12.nm.us

New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Instructional Resource Center (IRC)

Toll free: 800-437-3505 ext. 4437
http://nmsbvi.k12.nm.us/IRC.html
Email: IRC@nmsbvi.k12.nm.us

New Mexico State Library

Toll Free: 800-456-5515
www.nmstatelibrary.org

Project for New Mexico Students who are Deaf-Blind

Toll free: 877-614-4051
https://www.nationaldb.org/state-deaf-blind-projects/nm/

Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Toll free: 800-872-5273
www.tsbvi.edu