Measuring America: An Overview on Vision Disability Statistics.

The following was posted by The American Council for the Blind on Facebook.

Do you know how to respond when you are asked how many blind and visually impaired persons reside in the United States? This is an often asked question of advocates by legislators and other policy makers. The American Foundation for the Blind, (AFB) is working closely with the U.S. Census Bureau to plan a series of webinars which will help educators, researchers, and advocates explore a wealth of existing data (from the American Community Survey, the Current Population Survey, and the National Health Interview Survey, just to name a few!). These webinars will be designed and led by Census Bureau experts, and the events will be hosted through their web-based training platform. Using the tools which will be explained in this webinar series, anyone with internet access can perform free, customized data searches to support research, grant-writing, program evaluation, education, and advocacy. We look forward to continuing this webinar series and to learning both from the Census Bureau’s experts and from participant questions and feedback. The first webinar will be titled Measuring America: An Overview on Vision Disability Statistics. It will take place at 2:00 pm Eastern time on February 26th, 2015. A recording of the webinar will be posted online at a later date. Please follow this link to register in advance to receive the log-in and call-in information via email.