A Shared Vision: Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Impairment is Colorado’s LEADING PROVIDER of early intervention vision services for children who are blind or visually impaired or have vision concerns. Since its start in 2016, the organization now has 15 Early Intervention Teachers of the Visually Impaired on their team, including their founders.

The goal of this 501(c)(3) nonprofit is to ensure that all families of children with visual impairments have access to and receive essential early intervention services specific to blindness, visual impairment or vision concerns from a community of highly skilled and collaborative professionals.
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Towards this goal, A Shared Vision provides customized trainings for hospitals, pediatric clinics, therapy agencies and Community Centered Boards on how blindness and visual impairment affect the strategies that other EI providers use with their clients, including how to identify “Red Flags” of visual impairment.

Anchor Center for Blind Children is more than leaders in early education and intervention for children who are blind or visually impaired. They are a passionate community of caring professionals who put children and families first.

Anchor Center's Infant, Toddler, Preschool, Family Support and Community Outreach programs allow their multidisciplinary Anchor Center team to fully support each child’s needs. They teach the life skills that prepare children for success in their school years and beyond.

​Founded in 1982 by a librarian from the Colorado Library for the Blind and the local Delta Gamma alumnae chapter, their first class included four Preschool students and six homebound infants. Today, Anchor Center provides early education and intervention services for children birth to five years old who are blind or visually impaired. Their collaborative team approach to education, therapeutic and family support services ensures lifelong success. Everyone matters in the life of a child.

As a dynamic service agency, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) provides leadership, resources, support and accountability to the state’s 178 school districts, 1,888 schools, over 53,000 teachers and over 3,200 administrators to help them build capacity to meet the needs of the state’s approximately 905,000 public school students.

CDE also provides services and support to boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES), early learning centers, state correctional schools, facility schools, the state’s libraries, adult/family literacy centers, and General Education Development (GED) testing centers reaching learners of all ages. CDE operates the Colorado Talking Book Library which provides supports for people who have vision, print, and reading disabilities.
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In addition, CDE provides structural and administrative support to the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind and the Charter School Institute.
CDE serves students, parents, and the general public by protecting the public trust through ensuring adherence to laws, strong stewardship of public funds, and accountability for student performance.

Colorado Hands and Voices is dedicated to supporting families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing without a bias around communication modes or methodology. They’re a parent-driven, non-profit organization providing families with the resources, networks, and information they need to improve communication access and educational outcomes for their children. Their outreach activities, parent/professional collaboration, and advocacy efforts are focused on enabling Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children to reach their highest potential.

​“As individuals who are in so many ways connected to each other through deafness or hearing loss – professionally, parentally, or otherwise-we’d had an opportunity to rally around the things that unite us and show the whole world, but instead we burned ourselves out in the same old heated arguments over communication methodology. Those events were the coming of age for Hands & Voices. Twelve years ago, we were just a fledgling Colorado parent support group (who would become Hands & Voices) watching the whole Silent America debacle take flame. It was incredible, as in ‘not believable’. Why didn’t they just ask us how to do this? Perhaps through natural selection or just by serendipity, our group was increasingly comprised of diversely communicating parents, professionals, and deaf and hard of hearing adults fully united by our cause. As we grew, we became galvanized by the need to create strength and unity in our community. Certainly, we’re not the first or only who have ever wanted to accomplish that, but in many ways, joining all camps together towards a common goal continues to be the unique selling point of Hands & Voices.”

The Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB) provides children and families statewide with comprehensive, specialized educational services in safe, nurturing environments. CSDB empowers learners to become self-determined, independent, contributing citizens within their communities.

CSDB is a state-funded school within the Colorado Department of Education. The school was established for the purpose of providing comprehensive educational services for children, birth to age 21, who are blind/visually impaired and/or deaf/hard of hearing. Services are provided directly to students enrolled at the school, and outreach programs serve students, staff, and families in communities throughout Colorado.
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Whether working with students in their home districts or on the campus in Colorado Springs, CSDB retains skilled and talented staff members who strive for excellence and are deeply committed to providing quality services for all students. Staff use innovative and differentiated instructional strategies, supported by appropriate technology, to assist all students in reaching their potential.