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