You Support Our Community, Our Community Sustains Us
Thank you to our community of supporters and friends for our most successful Colorado Gives Day ever! Your support and generosity for this annual nonprofit event is both affirming and greatly appreciated! Every year since the inception of Colorado Gives Day, our community steps up to show its support for our high-expectation, high-value blindness training, and every year that community grows! For that, I offer a simple, humble thank you!
Julie Deden
Executive Director
We believe you can do anything as a blind person. So, every day, we encourage and challenge you—and you come to understand your potential as you build the skills and confidence to live the life you want. Because when you believe in yourself and experience a thriving community of positive blind people, nothing can hold you back from pursuing your dreams.
Indeed, The Colorado Center for the Blind is a training center and thriving community of positive blind and low vision people located in Littleton, about a dozen miles south of downtown Denver, and proudly affiliated with the National Federation of the Blind. Founded in 1988, the Colorado Center for the Blind has grown into a world-renowned blindness-skills training center attracting students from across the United States and beyond. Nearly all of our instructors are blind and thus we, too, “walk the walk” every single day…























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A Thank-you Following the NFB Convention @nfb_voice
Michelle runs the sound board for the NFB of Denver Chapter meeting. Editor’s Note: As we do each year, staff and students at the Colorado Center for the Blind attended the National Federation of the Blind convention during the first week of July. Forty of us traveled to Houston where we joined over 2300 fellow members of the NFB at the Hilton Americas for six days of meetings, networking, presentations, and NFB business such as resolutions, a great exhibit hall with the best in blindness-related assistive technology and other products. There were division meetings and state caucuses, receptions, and open…
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Upcoming Events:

- October 14, 2023, All day: Chatfield Farms Corn Maze
- November 11, 2023, All day: Learn essential outdoor skills
- December 9, 2023, All day: Annual Holiday Party with Denver Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado
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Our Programs
Independence Training Program for Adults
Our Independence Training Program (ITP) is designed for blind adults (18 years of age and older). Typically students complete the program in six to nine months while residing in nearby McGeorge Mountain Terrace apartments, which are owned by the Center. Participants not only build the skills that they need to be independent, but also focus on gaining confidence and belief in themselves as blind people
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Program Areas
- Braille
- Cane Travel
- Home Management
- Technology
- Woodshop & Home Maintenance
- Challenge Recreation
- Discussion Groups on Blindness
Additional Rotating Classes
- Art
- College Prep
- Career Exploration
- Gardening
- Resume Writing
- Martial Arts
- Sewing
- Yoga
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Youth Programs
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Year-round Youth Programs
- October 14, 2023, All day: Chatfield Farms Corn Maze
- November 11, 2023, All day: Learn essential outdoor skills
- December 9, 2023, All day: Annual Holiday Party with Denver Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado
You won’t want your kids to miss it!
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Senior Programs
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The Colorado Center for the Blind works to change the experience of older blind and visually impaired persons from frustration to independence. With education and training seniors can and do obtain the skills and confidence necessary to stay in their own homes and continue be contributing members of their communities.
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Training for Professionals on Blindness
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Our Professional Training Seminars include information about causes of blindness, alternative techniques used successfully by blind people, an introduction to sleepshades and their use with a white cane or in preparing lunch, and we spend time talking about the myths of blindness as well.
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