Adapted Curriculum Enhancement
internet: http://www.ace-education.org/

"NASA science inquiry materials for visually impaired". Included on this site are the braille and graphics files for some of their learning materials.

American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAS]
internet: http://www.sciencemag.org

Publishes booklets on making labs and science programs accessible to the disabled and a resource directory of scientists and engineers with disabilities.

American Printing House for the Blind
internet: http://www.aph.org

Learning supplies for students who are blind or have low vision, including math manipulatives, anatomical and geographical tactile materials, supplies for tactile graphics, and others.

Arm and Hammer Division of Church and Dwight Co., Inc.
mail: 469 North Harrison Street, Princeton, NJ  08540  U.S.A.
voice: 800-524-1328

Will send out free a brochure on how to make "play clay" from their baking soda.

California School for the Blind
internet: http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/spbranch/State-Spec_Schools/for-the-Blind/

Has applications for a children's summer space camp in California.  Applications are accepted many months before the actual camp, so call far in advance.

Clovernook Center
internet: http://www.clovernook.org

They sponsor a summer program to introduce blind and low vision students to technology skills.

College of Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle
internet: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit

Their DO-IT program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) was designed to nurture the academic interests of college-bound high school students with disabilities.

Constructive Playthings
internet: http://www.ustoy.com/

Microscope with large vertical screen for viewing. The optical quality is much less than that of traditional microscopes.

Creative Adaptations for Learning
internet: http://www.cal-s.org

Sells "haptic flashcards" to learn the alphabet, counting, and shapes.

Exceptional Teaching Aids
internet: http://www.exceptionalteaching.com

Sells a curriculum for teaching mathematics, plus manipulatives, and many other educational items.

Fisher Science Education
mail: 485 South Frontage Road, Burr Ridge, IL  60521  U.S.A.
internet: http://www.fisheredu.com
voice: 800-955-1177

Sells equipment and supplies for science classes, including detailed models of the human: body, eye, ear, brain, reproduction systems, etc.

Folkmanis Puppets
mail: 1219 Park Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608 U.S.A.
internet: http://www.folkmanis.com/

They have a catalog of over 200 life-like puppets. Although not to scale, they are surprisingly good recreations of creatures and plants which inhabit our land, sea, and air.

Forestry Suppliers, Inc.
mail: P.O. Box 8397, Jackson, Mississippi  39284-8397  U.S.A.
internet: http://www.forestry-suppliers.com
e-mail: fsi@forestry-suppliers.com
fax: 800-543-4203
voice: 800-647-5368, 601-354-3565

Sells outdoors educational supplies, including orienteering equipment, water testing kits, weather instruments, raised-relief maps, sieve sets, geology tools, and others.

Grand River Toy Company, The
mail: 276 Carlaw Avenue, Unit 101, Toronto, ON M4M 3L1  CANADA
internet: http://www.grandrivertoys.com
fax: 888-567-5601, 416-469-2862
voice: 800-567-5600, 416-469-1946

Catgalog and retail store with educational supplies, toys, and craft kits, including: "make your own" bath gel, body lotion, and lip balm; 50x microscope which works under water; parabolic microphone; Brio® toys; etc.

Hunt, P.
mail: PO Box 404, Pfaff Town, NC 27040 U.S.A.
e-mail: leannajo@aol.com

"Geometry Tactile Graphic Cards were created to concretely teach the geometry shapes by their tactile representations . . . The set consists of 12 hand-embossed cards. The geometric shapes are paired with its name, and formula. Drawings include: cube, triangular prism, rectangular prism, cone, sphere, square pyramid, right triangle, and several other." The cost is $30.00 if paid in advance, $35.00 if a purchase order is used.

Indigo Instruments
internet: http://www.indigo.com/

They sell a variety of products, including molecular models and focussing lenses.

J. L. Hammett Company
mail: P.O. Box 660420, Dallas, TX 75266-04023  U.S.A.
internet: http://www.hammett.com
e-mail: marketing@hammett.com
fax: 800-873-5700
voice: 800-333-4600

Wide variety of teaching supplies, including: globe with 3-D relief; microscopes with viewing screens; magnifiers and minifier; anatomy apron (large, cloth "organs" attach with velcro to the torso and abdomen sections while student is wearing the apron); etc.

Jim Jackson and Company
mail: 30 Buena Vista Park, Cambridge, MA 02140 U.S.A.
internet: http://jimjacksonanatomymodels.com
e-mail: jj@jimjacksonart.com
voice: 617-864-9063; 800-827-9063

Sells realistic models of the male and female reproductive systems, both internal and external, complete and cross-section.

National Lekotek Center
mail: 2100 Ridge, Evanston, IL  60201 U.S.A.
voice: 800-366-7529

They have 15 centers in several states with their CompuPlay Program in which disabled children can learn adaptive computer use, and use a lending library (toys, parents' resource books, some computer equipment and software).

National Center for Blind Youth in Science
location: U.S.A.
internet: http://www.blindscience.org/ncbys/Default.asp

Summer "camp" experiences in space, nature conservation, and medicine.

Pamela Drake, Inc.
mail: 801 Virginia Street, Berkeley, CA  94710  U.S.A.
fax: 510-528-2995
voice: 800-966-3762, 510-528-2993

Their Snakes and Things catalog includes wooden, jointed snakes, lizards, and fish (either prepainted or in a kit with paints).  Some of the paint glows in the dark.  Some of the kits come with corresponding coloring books about the animal.

Princeton Braillists
mail: 28-B Portsmouth Street, Whiting, NJ  08759 U.S.A.
voice: 732-350-3708

Tactile maps and drawings, including states, countries, continents, and human anatomy.

Repro-Tronics, Inc.
mail: 75 Carver Avenue, Westwood, NJ  07675 U.S.A.
internet: http://www.repro-tronics.com/
e-mail: davesrepro@aol.com
fax: 201-722-1881
voice: 800-948-8453, 201-722-1880

Chemistry Tactile Model Kit and Curricu-Packs tactual science illustrations.  See other products by them listed in the department Technology and Electronics.

Schweizerischer Zentralverein für das Blindenwesen
mail: Zentralsekretariat, Schutzengasse 4, CH-9000 St. Gallen  SWITZERLAND
fax: +41 71 222 7318
voice: +41 71 223 3636

Sells rulers and tape measures with raised dots and/or braille.

Science Kit and Boreal Laboratories
mail: 777 East Park Drive, Tonawanda, NY  14150-6784  U.S.A.
internet: http://sciencekit.com
e-mail: customerservice@sciencekit.com
fax: 716-874-9572
voice: 800-828-7777, 716-874-6020

Supplies all types of science supplies to schools, including: human anatomical models (eye, reproductive organs, other organs); 3-D models of other things (cells, DNA); several types of magnifiers and lamps; kits for molecule models; and "the real things" (animal organs, minerals [including flourescent ones], plants).

Scientific Explorer, Inc.
mail: 4020 East Madison, Suite 326, Seattle, WA  98112  U.S.A.
internet: http://www.instrumentsdirect.co.uk/se1.htm
fax: 206-322-7610
voice: 800-900-1182, 206-322-7611

Kits for experiments (scent, botany, spices, taste, sound, and others) and kits to make things (fragrances, soap, candles, dinosaur teeth, and others)

State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo
contact: Ms. Judith Tamburlin
mail: Dept. of Anatomy, 309 Farber Hall, Buffalo, NY  14214  U.S.A.
voice: 716-829-3630 x106

In conjunction with the National Science Foundation, they have put together a three-volume human anatomy atlas with over 100 tactual diagrams showing the major organs of the human body, in gross and microscopic form.  Each diagram is accompanied by braille or large print text captions.

TACK-TILES® Braille Systems
mail: P.O. Box 475, Plaistow, NH  03865-0475  U.S.A.
internet: http://www.tack-tiles.com
e-mail: braille@tack-tiles.com
fax: 603-382-1748
voice: 800-822-5845, 603-328-1904

Makes and sells the Tack-Tiles Braille System, unique connectable blocks with large braille dots on them (similar to and can be snapped onto Legos® blocks).

Tactile Learning Adventures
internet: http://tactilelearning.org/index.htm

"This site is the home for visually impaired science education and project information."

Teaching Math to Visually Impaired Students
internet: http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/

This site by Susan Osterhaus of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired has loads of information and helps for teachers.

ViewPlus Software, Inc.
mail: 800 N.W. Starker Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97330 U.S.A.
internet: http://www.ViewPlusSoft.com
e-mail: vps@ViewPlusSoft.com
fax: 541-738-6505
voice: 541-754-4002

Their Accessible Graphing Calculator is a Windows-based program that adds speech to make a functional graphing calculator for people with visual impairments or dyslexia. Also, "The Tiger Advantage Tactile Graphics Embosser translates screen fonts into braille and embosses crisp high resolution line and block graphics from all standard Windows applications."

West Virginia School for the Blind
contact: Dan Oates
mail: 301 East Main Street, Romney, WV  26757 U.S.A.
e-mail: doates@access.mountain.net
voice: 304-822-4883

Holds a Space Camp for students with visual impairments in the summer, for grades 4 through 12.

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