Mission:
To prepare individuals to reach their limitless potential by providing superior staff, facilities, training and programs.
Organization Wish List:
We would love some volunteers to help us plant a sensory garden for our consumers who are deafblind.
Contact:
432 E. Jefferson Street, Montgomery, AL
334-262-0824
aidb.org
Jenny Savage, Regional Director
“I think people would be surprised to learn that we work with people in our community with vision and hearing loss across the lifespan. We serve infants and toddlers, school-aged children, adults and senior citizens. Our work is vital for those we serve because it helps even the playing field for them to ensure that services are accessible just as they are to anyone else.”
Background:
The Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB) is the world’s most comprehensive education, rehabilitation and service program serving individuals of all ages who are deaf, blind, deafblind or multi-disabled and their families. Founded in 1858, AIDB serves more than 31,000 infants, toddlers, children, adults and seniors with hearing and vision loss throughout Alabama each year.
Our services span a lifetime and are offered at five campuses in Talladega as well as, 10 regional centers in Birmingham, Decatur, Dothan, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Opelika, Talladega, Tuscaloosa and Shoals. We offer programs that range from early and senior intervention, traditional and nontraditional education services in residential and outreach settings and a manufacturing facility — The Alabama Industries for the Blind — that is the state’s largest employer of adults who are blind and deaf.
AIDB’s residential campuses in Talladega include the Alabama School for the Deaf, Alabama School for the Blind, Helen Keller School of Alabama (serving children who are deaf, blind, deafblind and multi-disabled) and the E. H. Gentry Facility campus (a postsecondary rehabilitation and training program for adults – strong in assistive technology and life and work skills).
AIDB also provides Outreach Services to students who are deaf, blind or deafblind and their teachers and parents in public, private and homeschool environments throughout the state.
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