Blind and Visually Impaired

Association for the Multiple Impaired Blind (AMIB): Residential programs for people with multiple disabilities are what AMIB does with love, patience, and expertise. We recognize that people with disabilities are “Can Do” people.

Be My Eyes - See the World Together Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind or low vision users who want assistance, with volunteers and companies across the world, through live video and AI.

Camp Abilities: A week-long Educational Sports Camp for Children with Visual Impairments.Contact Dr. Alex Stribing [email protected].

Camp Happiness: New Jersey Blind Citizens Association (732) 291-0878. Through free programs and services for the blind and visually impaired, the New Jersey Blind Citizens Association unlocks opportunities and opens doors for growth, happiness and new experiences.

Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired: (973) 648-2111. Vocational rehabilitation services, counseling, social services and low vision services. Job placement. Educational services.

New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center (TBBC):TBBC provides free, home-delivered services on behalf of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled to everyone who has difficulty reading standard print or holding a book.  For youth and teen services: [email protected] Phone: (800) 792-8322 ext 823

Small Steps for Big Vision: An Eye Health Info Tool Kit for Parents and Caregivers: Small Steps for Big Vision: An Eye Health Information Tool Kit for Parents and Caregivers provides parents and caregivers with the information, suggested actions, and assistance they need to be empowered partners in their children’s vision and eye health and to care for their own vision and eye health.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Department of Human Services Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing:  [email protected] (800-792-8339) provides education, advocacy and direct services to eliminate barriers and promote increased accessibility to programs, services, and information routinely available to the state’s general population.

ACCESS Deaf Mental Health Services (St. Joseph's University Medical Center) (973) 754-5590 Based at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson and funded by the NJ State Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, ACCESS provides 24/7 community-based psychiatric and mental health services to deaf and hard-of-hearing people throughout New Jersey.

Monmouth County Library Assistive Listening Technology Loan Program  (732) 431-7220 ext. 7222 Assistive Listening Technology Loan Program devices are available for use at library functions as well as for loan to individuals for personal use, and organizations

Deaf - Blind 

The Campaign for Language & Literacy Excellence: CLLE is a New Jersey–based project run under The College of New Jersey’s Center for Sensory and Complex Disabilities that works to promote early language and literacy development in young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind. 

Last Updated: 03/03/26