Professional Development Workshops
These are usually two or three day extended, hands-on workshops. A small group of blind students are typically taught portions of our core curriculum with observation and participation by professional attendees. Courses are taught indoors and outdoors throughout the community. For more information, please see our sample workshop outline.
Blind Student Group Courses
These are training programs and small group courses. Professionals often attend, but these courses focus on perceptual mobility for blind students.
Professional Presentations and Seminars
These are shorter keynote presentations, informative talks, and training seminars. They are usually delivered in professional forums, and typically sponsored by professional organizations.
Family Seminars
These include informative talks and short training workshops, often involving instructional demonstrations with blind family members. They may be sponsored by private parties or professional groups.
Program Development and Relief Efforts
These comprise courses to develop or expand mobility training programs in developing countries or underserved regions to allow more service to more people. In some cases, mobility services were altogether non-existent.
Public Awareness Workshops
These include workshops for the general public including schools, companies, churches, and community forums. The aim is to foster a healthy awareness and respect for blindness within the public at large.
Recreation and Sensory Enrichment Clinics
These include enjoyable training experiences primarily for blind people to foster greater appreciation for recreational movement and strategic use of the senses. Soccer and other ball sports, solo bicycling, tree climbing, hiking, and other activities are involved. Through these events, we demonstrate that blindness need not prevent children or adults from being active and healthy, nor from having fun, and to show that they can participate in nearly any activity that they choose with a little adaptation and forethought. We are unique in that sighted assistance is not available under most circumstances in order to foster greater freedom and autonomy among participants.
No Limits Challenge Events
These include public events intended to challenge public perceptions about blindness, and also to challenge all of us to look beyond our limits.
Science, Research, and Higher Education
These include presentations for institutes of higher education and research - universities, medical establishments, and science symposiums.
World Access for the Blind Milestones
These include organizational achievements that are of particular note in expanding our ability to serve more people more efficiently with better results.