Associated Services for the Blind

The Associated Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired (ASB) is a private non-profit organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

It assists those living with vision loss to achieve independence through education, support services to advance necessary skills, and community connections.

ASB collaborates with local,[2] regional and national partners to provide additional resources and opportunities to clients.

ASB has primarily been a human services agency, but up until 2020, it had also operated as a braille production facility for decades, printing books, magazines, textbooks, brochures, and other materials.

[3] With the rise of assistive and adaptive technologies and following a comprehensive strategic planning process for the agency, the board of directors made the decision to divest the braille division as of August 2020 in order to focus the nonprofit agency's resources entirely on its human services and the growing number of individuals who are experiencing vision loss.