Services and Advocacy

How to realize our dreams? How to achieve success? We can apply our collective decades of world gathered experience in educational and rehabilitative programming to help you plan for the best possible outcomes. We help blind people, parents, and institutions put pieces together to implement the most effective programs, or refine existing programs. If you want success, we will help you achieve it. In the interest of positive action and student respect, our approach to effective programming is not just based on remediation of student weakness, but augmentation of student strengths. Being blind ourselves and with much experience with all sorts and combinations of involvements, we have lived and learned the process of making it work in the face of significant societal and administrative challenges. <Check out our credentials> Whatever your situation, however complicated, we specialize in innovative resolutions to the most intricate and exciting challenges. After an initial free consultation, we will provide you a free proposal of how we can help you. <click here to view a sample proposal>

We offer comprehensive, detailed assessments of functional living and personal achievement. We do not poke and probe with a critical eye. Our assessments do not just highlight or innumerate student weaknesses. We learn who the student is by a process of respectful involvement, interaction, and exchange. We believe assessment has three purposes - to learn who the student is, to communicate that knowledge clearly and respectfully, and to propose an effective program of positive action based on those findings. Our assessment process rests on three principals:

1. The student does not have special needs, but the same needs as all students - the need for full, self-directed access to the opportunities of all aspects of society.
2. The intent of our assessment is not to determine what's right or wrong with a student, but to determine how to optimize the student's self-directed access to society. The key question is, what needs to happen in order for the student to gain full access?
3. Student strengths are as important as student challenges, and a service program will capitalize on these strengths as well as address challenges.

Before agreeing to conduct the assessment, we deliver a free consultation which includes an assessment price quote based on anticipated time to completion.  Click here for sample assessment reports.

You are fed up! You've thrown up your hands! You've had it up to here! Enough is enough! Or, maybe you just want a little direction, and experienced ear to bounce things off of. We can certainly help you. We have a unique, non-abrasive way to help you untangle the tangles, straighten out the messes, set the confusions straight, and find firm direction. Being blind ourselves, we have lived through the troubles, and we have learned to straighten them out in a way that can strengthen rather than further damage your relationship with your service agency. How do we do this?

We can provide sound information and guidance to any blindness project. Are you planning a project about blindness in research, legal proceedings, assistive technology development, a film or documentary, a book or article, a disability awareness program, a class project, a fund raising campaign? Do you want your project to address blindness respectfully and accurately? Do you want to avoid mistakes made so often that denigrate or threaten the integrity of blind people? Much harm has been done to blind people out of good but mis-guided intentions. Our approach to blindness is clear, broad, and respectful. It is unparalleled in its focus on self-reliance and possibility. It is based on capability, not deficiency; achievement not struggle. It is based on the latest research in human perception, and rooted in the exemplary experiences and successes of many blind people. World Access for the Blind is one of the few organizations in the world inspired by blind people, built by blind people, and led by blind people, and we are known throughout the world for our ground breaking and effective work. We know about blindness. We know about the realities of achievement through ingenuity, adaptation, and perseverance. We are uniquely capable of helping you infuse your project with a solid understanding of blindness, and it is our pleasure.

How do we dare to dream, and make our dreams real? Let's learn to challenge what we think we know. Learn to see without sight, to live with No Limits. In two hours, World Access for the Blind combines hard science, inspiration, and hands-on experience to open the eyes of everyone to a new way of seeing. Video and real life demonstrations, unforgettable tales of personal achievement, and instructional activities challenge and change what we think we know. Everyday blind people share how they can see through darkness - riding bikes and climbing mountains by ourselves, playing sports, and living our dreams with self-reliance. Everyone, blind or not, should enjoy the freedom and strength of character to seek and discover our own limits and strengths, without suffering limits imposed on us by the presumptions of others. We show you how to banish limits. You will learn to see in the dark using innate senses within us all. By learning to do what seems impossible, we learn to change our lives and the lives of others. Shown across the world through TV and publications, we bring you a New Light. We extend to you the opportunity to share what you learn with others through a community activity or raising funds. We can help you help others. You receive concrete video updates on the impact you make. A follow-up ceremony can be arranged in the eyes of the local community and press to award a shining token of mutual achievement and enduring partnership. Sharing the New Light gives children an unparalleled sense of gratification, self worth, personal power, and camaraderie. Adults are drawn together into a powerful spirit of solidarity and purpose. Help blind people see. Help sighted people see better. Join us in the New Light, No Limits way of life.