Blind Babies Foundation (BBF) has been providing
critical early intervention and education services to infants and preschoolers
who are blind or visually impaired for more than 58 years. Our family-centered
services are provided in the home environment and encourage every child’s
development to the fullest degree possible with careful attention to their
individual abilities and needs. These intensive services can help to stimulate
and enhance available vision, often preventing a further decline of visual
acuity or total vision loss. As soon as a visual impairment is detected, BBF is
there to help families move from crisis to understanding and
self-sufficiency.
Through our Off to a Good Start program, our Vision
Impairment Specialists help nearly 500 children each year in 14 central and
northern California counties at no cost to families. BBF provides services to
children under six years of age who have a visual impairment regardless of
economic status, ethnicity, gender, country of origin or any other criteria. The
only time BBF screens a child and decides not to provide services is when the
diagnosis is that of a condition easily corrected through surgery, medication or
corrective lenses. Even in these cases, our specialists often act as advisors.
Taking into account all of the family members, medical professionals, caregivers
and teachers we advise, train and collaborate with, we estimate that more than
4000 people benefit from our services every year.
