Are you familiar with Sight Exchange? It's a Yahoo group whose purpose is to bring people together to "give and receive items that serve the needs of the blind, low vision and visually impaired population".
The only caveat for parents of young children is this: "Everyone must begin by offering an item before requesting an item." However, they say, among other suggestions, that it can be an outgrown toy or learning resource in Braille, or an audio book. So it's not like we have to be ready to give up a major item of assistive technology.
This group was started a little over a year ago (January of 2006), and at this writing already has 595 members listed.
If you are interested in this group, you can join by going to their home page at the web or by sending a blank email to sightexchange-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
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