Where can I find other parents with blind or deafblind children?
There are over 6,000 children eligible for special education services as visually impaired in Texas. Nearly 700 children are registered as deafblind through the Texas Deafblind Census. Although both visual impairments and deafblindness represent low incidence populations, there are a variety of resources to help connect you with other families. Here are a few: • Blind Children’s Vocational Discovery & Development Program Specialists with TCB 800-252-5204 http://www.dars.state.tx.us/dbs/bcp.shtml • Texas Association of Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (TAPVI) http://www.tapvi.org • National Association of Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI) 800-562-6265 http://www.spedex.com/napvi/ • Deaf-Blind Multihandicapped Association of Texas (DBMAT) 972-287-1904 www.dbmat-tx.org/ • National Family Association for the Deaf-Blind (NFADB) 800-255-0411 www.nfadb.org/ • Texas Parent2Parent www.main.org/txp2p/ • National Parent to Parent Network www.netnet.net/mums/ Also, the
