The mission of The Hadley Academy for the Dark is to advance absolute active through lifelong, ambit apprenticeship programs for individuals who are dark or visually impaired, their families and amaurosis account providers.
Founded in 1920 by William Hadley and Dr. E.V.L. Brown, Hadley offers courses chargeless of allegation to its dark and visually broken acceptance and their families and affordable allegation to amaurosis professionals. Today, Hadley is the better provider of ambit apprenticeship for humans who are dark or visually broken about the world, confined added than 10,000 acceptance annually in all 50 states and 100 countries. Hadley is aswell the better drillmaster of braille worldwide. A 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the academy relies on contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations to armamentarium its programs.
Whether a student’s ambition is to alum top school, be an apostle for their visually broken child, become employed, reside independently, apprentice braille, alpha a business or artlessly adorn themselves through constant learning, Hadley can help. The Hadley Academy serves acceptance who are at atomic 14 years old and can abstraction application the English language.
Hadley courses are attainable in four formats – online, braille, audio and ample print. With attainable adaptable technology, acceptance can absolutely abstraction “anytime, anywhere.” About 70 percent of Hadley’s courses are attainable online and are absolutely attainable on a array of adaptable accessories including handheld computers, MP3 players, tablets and adaptable phones. Since the academy began alms courses in an online architecture in 2002, added than 14,000 acceptance accept completed one or added online courses by application awning clairvoyant software.
Hadley acceptance adore a “classroom of one.” They accept one-on-one abutment from their instructors, who are experts in their fields, via a toll-free buzz alarm or email. Acceptance are aswell able to affix with one addition through instructors’ basic appointment hours, area acceptance admission an online babble allowance and use a microphone or abode in to articulation their thoughts and questions.Hadley consists of 5 affairs areas:
The Developed Continuing Apprenticeship (ACE) Affairs serves developed acceptance who are dark or visually impaired. The ACE affairs offers courses in a advanced ambit of capacity including braille, admission technology, absolute active skills, recreational activities or the arts such as “Braille Music Reading” and “Stress Relief and Meditative Gardening” and more.
Since the 1930s, The Hadley Academy for the Dark has offered a nationally-recognized, accepted Top Academy Affairs for acceptance with beheld impairments age 14 and up who reside in the United States. Acceptance may alteration credits from courses taken at Hadley to their top academy to alum locally, or they can acquire their top academy authority anon through Hadley. Abounding of Hadley's Top Academy acceptance accept been prevented from earning their authority in the accomplished because of the abridgement of superior eyes casework or attainable formats, difficulties casual the state-required avenue assay for graduation or disability to biking continued distances, so the Hadley Top Academy Affairs is a much-needed “second chance.”
The Ancestors Apprenticeship Affairs offers courses for sighted ancestors associates of a dark or visually broken person. Hadley offers abounding courses to advice parents of accouchement who are dark or visually broken in areas such as absolute living, braille and teaching and advocating for a dark or visually broken child.
The Hadley Academy for Professional Studies (HSPS) is a “teach the teachers” program, advised for anyone who works anon with dark and visually broken individuals in a school, plan or association setting, whether as a paid agent or a volunteer. Acceptance currently enrolled in a academy or university affairs and advancing for a career in the amaurosis acreage may aswell accept in an HSPS course. Acceptance in the affairs pay a bashful $99 - $139 per course, although a lot of of these courses are offered chargeless of allegation acknowledgment to alfresco support.
The Low Eyes Focus  Hadley (LVF), is advised to advice individuals active with low eyes (primarily seniors) advance their ability by administration applied means to abode circadian active abilities fabricated difficult by eyes loss. The LVF is different in that it offers those active with low eyes the befalling to apprentice and yield advantage of our assets from the abundance of their own homes, at a time that is acceptable for them, with the account of one-on-one counseling and support, at no amount to them. It appearance a alternation of ten 30-minute audio acquaint that accommodate tips and techniques for accomplishing accustomed tasks with low vision, such as alive in the kitchen, claimed admonishment and affective about safely. In the future, Hadley will accommodate free, educational videos and webinars as allotment of the Low Eyes Focus, and the affairs will anon advertence accepted Hadley courses that may be of absorption to individuals with low vision.