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Arkansas Resource List

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NFB of Arkansas

Matt Lyles, President
214 Van Buren Street NW, Apartment C
Camden, Arkansas 71701
Phone: 501-244-0432
E-mail: nfb.arkansas@sbcglobal.net   

NFB Parents of Blind Children

For local information, please contact the state president.

National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
Carol Castellano, President
23 Alexander Avenue
Madison, New Jersey 07940-2101
Home: 973-377-0976
E-mail: blindchildren@verizon.net 
Web site: www.nfb.org/nopbc

NFB Training Centers

BLIND, Incorporated (Blindness: Learning in New Dimensions, Incorporated)
Shawn Mayo, Director
100 East 22nd Street South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
Phone: 612-872-0100
Toll Free: 800-597-9558
Fax: 612-872-9358
E-mail: info@blindinc.org
Web site: http://www.blindinc.org/

Colorado Center for the Blind
Julie Deden, Director
2233 West Shepperd Avenue
Littleton, Colorado 80120
Phone: 303-778-1130
Toll Free: 800-401-4632
Fax: 303-778-1598
E-mail: jdeden@cocenter.org
Web site: http://www.cocenter.org/

Louisiana Center for the Blind
Pam Allen, Director
101 South Trenton Street
Ruston, Louisiana 71270
Phone: 318-251-2891
Toll Free: 800-234-4166
E-mail: pallen@lcb-ruston.com
Web site: http://www.lcb-ruston.com/

Other State Resources

Library Services:

Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
One Capitol Mall
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1085
Phone: 501-682-1155

Rehabilitation Services:

Arkansas Division of Services for the Blind
700 Main Street, Slot 101
Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-3237
Phone: 501-682-5463

Children's Services:

Arkansas Department of Education
Special Education Unit
Marcia Harding, Director 
1401 West Capitol, Victory Building, Suite 450
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
Phone: 501-682-4221
Fax: 501-682-5159
Web site: http://arksped.k12.ar.us/

For more information about blindness, please contact the Jacobus tenBroek Library of the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute at 410-659-9314 or send an e-mail to jtblibrary@nfb.org.