Additional opportunities to educate professionals are available through hosting visitors from around the world. Attendance at the annual meeting of Independent Sector also offers an opportunity to spread the word about NAVH to its fellow members. Most parents are referred by pediatric ophthalmologists throughout the United States. After being told about a child's condition, diagnosis and explanation by the physician is rarely understood or accepted. NAVH becomes a prime source of support, information and assurance to parents concerned about their child's future.
Great hope is here with fantastic changes in computerized and adaptive technology.
Young people need only to avail themselves of such products and services to reach personal goals previously unattainable. Success stories of young adults overcoming obstacles are no longer unusual. In Focus, is distributed, free of charge, worldwide. Wherever a visually impaired child is mainstreamed in a school, copies of the newsletter are supplied to each pupil in that youngster's class. NAVH helps to give the impaired student an additional sense of self worth while educating the student's peers.