NAVH provides information, referral and direct services. Direct services include offering a free loan library of large print books by mail, offering a wide variety of visual aids in visual aids rooms in New York and San Francisco, and offering counsel and guidance to adults with partial vision and their families and to families and children with partial vision. NAVH acts as a clearinghouse of information for all services available to partially seeing people from federal, state, and local government agencies and from private sources. NAVH publishes materials not available elsewhere concerning the problems encountered by people with partial vision. It publishes two newsletters in large print, one for children and one for adults.
Most information is provided in large print.
A membership program is available allowing subscribers discounts on services. Publications include information packets, NDIC fact sheets, The Diabetes Dictionary , and Directory of Diabetes Organizations , some in Spanish. NFB acts as a legislative resource for its state chapters and serves as advocate in discrimination cases for people who are blind. NFB publishes a monthly magazine, The Braille Monitor , which reports on problems, progress, activities and new technologies related to blindness, and it is available in large print, cassette, Braille and diskette. Future Reflections is a quarterly magazine for parents and educators of children who are blind and is available in print or on cassette.