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<TITLE>Blindness Resource Center: a service of the New York Institute for Special Education</TITLE>
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<td width="255"><img src="images/brc.gif" alt="Blindness Resource Center" border="0" height="90" width="250" usemap="#brc"></td>
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<div align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>(This
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<font size="4"> <a href="access.htm"><b>Universal Access: Lynx, Windows</b></a></font></td>
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<TD ROWSPAN="1" WIDTH="252" VALIGN="TOP"> <a HREF="blindness.htm"><img src="gifs/blind.gif" alt="Blindness Sites" border="0" height="38" width="251"></a></td>
<TD ROWSPAN="1" WIDTH="370" VALIGN="TOP"><font size="4">
<p><a href="blindness.htm"><b>Resource Sites on Blindness <br>
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<TD ROWSPAN="1" WIDTH="252" VALIGN="TOP"> <a HREF="blind/barbier2.htm"><img src="gifs/braille.gif" alt="braille history" border="0" height="38" width="251"></a></td>
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<p><a href="blind/barbier2.htm"><b>History of Reading Codes &amp; Braille
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<TD ROWSPAN="1" WIDTH="252" VALIGN="TOP"> <a HREF="braille.htm"><img src="gifs/literacy.gif" alt="braille literacy" border="0" height="38" width="251"></a></td>
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<p><a href="braille.htm"><b>BRL Literacy, Translators, Advocacy<br>
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<p><a href="deaf.htm"><b>Deaf-Blindness<br>
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<p><a href="disable.htm"><b>Resources Sites on Other Disabilities<br>
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<p><a href="eye.htm"><b>Eye Diseases and Visual Conditions <br>
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<p><a href="lowvision.htm"><b>Low Vision Resources<br>
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<p><a href="online.htm"><b>On-Line Info: libraries, news, E-texts <br>
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<TD ROWSPAN="1" WIDTH="252" VALIGN="TOP"> <a HREF="orgs.htm"><img src="gifs/orgs.gif" alt="Organizations" border="0" height="38" width="251"></a></td>
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<p><a href="orgs.htm"><b>Organizations: national/international <br>
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<p><a href="vendors.htm"><b>Vendors Specializing in Technology<br>
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<p><a href="homepage.htm"><b>Web Homepages of the Blind Community</b></a></p>
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<p><a href="whatsnew.htm"><b>What's New?<font size="3"> ...or maybe just
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