Special days and dates are
January:
- World Braille Day: January 4
- Braille Literacy Month
- Glaucoma Awareness Month
February:
- AMD/Low Vision Month
March:
- World Optometry Day: March 23
April:
- CVI Literacy Awareness Month
- Sports Eye Safety Month
- Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month
May:
- Healthy Vision Month
- Blind Awareness Month
- Vision Health Month
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
June:
- Nystagmus Awareness Day: June 20
- Cataract Awareness Month
- Deafblind Awareness Week / Helen Keller Deafblind Awareness Week
July:
Eye Injury Prevention Month
August:
- Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month
- Cataract Awareness Month
September:
- CVI Awareness Month
- National Guide Dog Month
October:
- World Sight Day (second Thursday of October)
- October 15: White Cane Day
- October 15: Blind Americans Equality Day
- Vision Awareness Month
- World Blindness Awareness Month
- Meet the Blind Month
- Week (dates may change): National Braille Week
- Home Eye Safety Month
November:
- Diabetic Eye Disease Month
December:
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities: December
