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Adaptive Environments
374 Congress Street, Suite 301, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, United States of America.
Contact person: Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director
Tel: +1 617 695 1225
Fax: +1 617 482 8099
Email: vfletcher@adaptenv.org or info@AdaptiveEnvironments.org
Web: www.adaptenv.org
Activities: Adaptive Environments promotes accessibility as well as universal design through
education programs, technical assistance, training, consulting, publications and design advocacy.
Its mission is to promote, facilitate and advocate for international adoption of policies and designs
that enable every individual, regardless of disabilty or age, to participate fully in all aspects
of society.
Last updated: 12/05/2006
Braille Authority of North America (BANA)
c/o Braille and Talking Book library, Perkins School for the Blind, 175 North Beacon Street, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, United States of America.
Contact person: Kim Charlson
Tel: +1 617 972 7249
Fax: +1 617 923 0004
Email: kim.charlson@perkins.org
Web: www.brailleauthority.org
Activities: BANA's purpose is to promote and to facilitate the uses, teaching and production
of Braille. Publishes guidelines for the correct production of Braille materials.
Last updated: 25/05/2006
Carroll Center for the Blind
770 Centre Street, Newton, Massachusetts, 02458, United States of America.
Contact person: Dina Rosenbaum
Tel: +1 617 969 6200
Fax: +1 617 969 6204
Email: dina.rosenbaum@carroll.org
Web: www.carroll.org
Activities: The Carroll Center is a multi-faceted agency providing a number of specialized
professional services including personal/vocational adjustment programs, international training programs,
computer services, educational services, community mobility and a vision resource library.
Last updated: 26/05/2006
Howe Press
Perkins School for the Blind, 175 North Beacon Street, Watertown, Massachusetts, 02472, United States of America.
Tel: +1 617 972 7308
Email: howepress@perkins.org
Web: www.perkins.org/area.php?id=9
Last updated: 26/05/2006
National Braille Press
88 Saint Stephen Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115-4302, United States of America.
Tel: +1 617 266 6160
Fax: +1 617 437 0456
Email orders@nbp.org
Web: www.braille.com
Activities: A nonprofit braille printer and publisher offering braille books, magazines, textbooks, tests, and customized embossing services.
Last updated: 26/05/2006
Perkins School for the Blind
175 North Beacon Street, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, United States of America.
Tel: +1 617 924 3434
Fax: +1 617 926 2027
Email: info@perkins.org
Web: www.perkins.org
Activities: Residential and day programs providing educational, diagnostic, counselling, prevocational,
vocational, and rehabilitation services for the blind, deafblind, visually impaired, and multi-impaired
children, teenagers and adults. Braille and Talking Book Library, Howe Press, DB-Link, Hayes Research
Library, Low Vision Clinic, internship/fieldwork program for local universities, and in-service training
program in sign language are available on campus. Co-ordinates funding of deafblind programs in New
England for US Department of Health and Human Services through the New England Center for services
to the Deafblind. Outreach and satellite programs offer evaluation service to outside agencies and
individuals; assess a diverse special needs population that includes but is not limited to multi-impaired
blind and deafblind, and provides educational and recreational opportunities for students not served
on campus. Hilton/Perkins Program provides leadership, expertise and resources to improve and expand
services for multi-handicapped blind and deafblind children in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, Eastern
Europe, Latin America, and Russia.
Last updated: 26/05/2006
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