Educational Resources

Welcome to the Greater Detroit Agency for the Blind and Visually Impaired educational resources page. In this ever-changing world there are many reasons why learning needs to be an ongoing process. We hope the resources on this page will prove helpful.

Education Web Sites

• Michigan Parents of Children with Visual Impairments: Resources for Parents. The MPVI resources page includes numerous links to information on educational programs geared to persons with special needs. It also contains links to Public Broadcasting System children's and family programming that emphasizes many types of learning.
• Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts. Perkins was the first school for the blind in the United States. They provide a wide variety of services locally, nationally, and internationally.
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. This site not only contains information about the school itself, but it also has a wide array of other educational resources.
• Hadley School for the Blind, Winnetka, Illinois. Hadley is famous for its wide range of college level courses that it offers, free of charge, by correspondence. Blind adults, family members of blind persons, and professionals in the blindness field are eligible to participate in the Hadley program.
• Courseware for Visually Impaired Students from Microsoft. Microsoft Corporation offers special "Optic Packs" for visually impaired students for some of their certification courses. These packs include the standard set of study materials as well as copies of the printed manuals and study guides on floppy disk.

Educational Software

• The Computerized Nemeth Tutor. The Computerized Nemeth Tutor is a program for Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 intended to teach the Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation to sighted persons who already know braille.
• The Computerized Braille Tutor. The Computerized Braille Tutor is a DOS-based computer program for teaching or refreshing the skills of a person wishing to become familiar with Grade 2 Braille. It is intended principly for sighted persons wishing to learn to write Braille or to transcribe materials into braille.