A while back, I tried to learn more about the efficacy of various blindness organizations. Recently, I realized that (1) I really need some sort of training, and (2) my research method was awful, and I should have just looked up notable blind people and looked for patterns in their training.

I avoided doing the "look at blind people" research out of it sounding boring, until not even an hour ago, when I just opened all the pages on blind Americans on Wikipedia and skimmed them all for the information in question.

Either most notable blind Americans don't get any noteworthy training, or this was left out of a great many wiki pages. Only four persons had specific training mentioned, all from different, mostly local schools; one other had training implied (a guidedog was mentioned), while most of the others could conceivably ignore anything more than a braille/cane instructor (and several could have gone without those, based on their articles).

So, apparently, no organization has a monopoly on success, however loudly some proclaim otherwise. This doesn't help me shop for a training center/method, but it's data.