Useful links

We want this website to be a valuable resource for anyone concerned with visual impairment, or with catering to the needs of this expanding market. Accordingly, we have lots of links where you can seek further information.

Visual impairment and blindness

Find out more about helping the visually impaired and on blindness and causes of impaired vision.

• Royal National Institute for the Blind www.rnib.org.uk
• BBC In Touch www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/intouch.shtml
• Action for Blind People is an expert national organisation, ensuring blind and partially sighted people get practical support in all aspects of their lives www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk
• Vision 2020 UK is an umbrella organisation which facilitates greater collaboration between organisations which focus on visual impairment www.vision2020uk.org.uk
• National Association of Local Societies for Visually Impaired People (NALSVI)www.nalsvi.cswebsites.org
• National Blind Children's Society www.nbcs.org.uk

Reading disabilities

• Find out more about dyslexia from the British Dyslexia Association www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
• Advice on alternative formats, particularly of textbooks for students in education www.altformat.com

Literacy and sites devoted to reading

• The website for World Book Day provides a good resource: World Book Day
• The BBC is undertaking a major literacy initiative. Find the details at www.bbc.co.uk/raw - a guide to better reading and writing skills
• Thorndike, the foremost large print publisher in the US has undertaken research on the benefits that those learning to read, both adults and children, derive from a larger typeface. You can learn more here: www.galeschools.com/thorndike/help.htm

Links for publishers

• Lightning Source won a 2007 British Book Award for their initiative to expand the availability of print-on-demand Large Print titles. All their large print books appear on our website. www.lightningsource.com
• Antony Rowe also print many large print titles, either as short print run titles, or as print-on demand. www.antonyrowe.co.uk

RNIB Library Catalogue

• The RNIB Library Catalogue (incorporating what was formerly Revealweb) lists books available in braille, daisy audio, large print etc librarycatalogue.rnib.org.uk/

Assistive technologies and advice

• Emptech provide information on assistance technologies to help those with specific difficulties to work and study www.emptech.info

Medical conditions that affect vision

• Albinism www.albinism.org.uk
• Diabetes www.diabetes.org.uk
• Glaucoma www.glaucoma-association.com

For the over 50s and above

• Help the Aged www.helptheaged.org.uk
• Extracare Charitable Trust www.extracare.org.uk
• University of the Third Age www.u3a.org.uk
• Saga Magazine have been very supportive of The Large Print Bookshop since we won a business award (mentoring provided by Business Boffins www.businessboffins.com) for what we had set out to do. www.saga.co.uk/saga-magazine/