Training Opportunities

“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.” - Galileo Galilei (1564–1642, astronomer, philosopher, and physicist, blind by age 72 from cataract and glaucoma)

The Nebraska Foundation for Visually Impaired Children provides assistance for educators and parents seeking advanced training opportunities in the State of Nebraska and nationally.

Since 1960, the NFVIC has helped educators and parents attend the following:

Literacy Conference

• Children’s Sight Center Pre-School
• Pilot Project for the integration of children with visual impairments
• Training classes through the University of Minnesota
• Optican training
• National Braille Press Association Convention
• Barkley Center
• Sixth Annual National Open Convention for the deaf/blind in Washington DC
• Summer Training Programs through State Services for the Blind
• Helen Keller Center
• Software Training
• Holiday Cooking Class
• Interpreters for the deaf/blind in the public schools
• Transition Team FairNational Technology Conferences
• Conferences relating to specific eye disorders

How To Apply for Funding

If you are an educator or parent seeking assistance to attend a class, workshop, fair, event, or convention, please write a letter of request to the NFVIC. In your letter of request, please state the following:

• Your name
• Address/Phone number
• Agency you work with
• Your position
• State the request
• Reason for request

Send your request to:

NFVIC
425 N 30 St
Omaha, NE 68131
Teresa@nebraskafoundation.org