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Blind And Low Vision Services | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

What's Here

Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Prevocational Training
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
Tuition Assistance

Blind And Low Vision Services | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

What's Here

Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Prevocational Training
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
Tuition Assistance

Recreation/Sports - Physical Disabilities | American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio

Provides an annual summer and winter retreat for blind or visually impaired adults. Seasonal activities may include camping, cookouts, camp fires, hiking, boating, water skiing, jet skiing, tubing, swimming or cross country skiing, snow-shoeing, hiking and indoor board and card games.

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Recreational Activities/Sports
Visual Impairments

Health/Disability Related Support Groups For Visual Impairments | Akron Blind Center

Provides a place for anyone with visual challenges to talk with people who have lived through similar struggles.

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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

Blind And Low Vision Services | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

What's Here

Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Prevocational Training
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
Tuition Assistance

Visual Bucket List Foundation | Visual Bucket List Foundation

Provides visual experiences to eligible children under the age of 18 who are diagnosed with a medical condition that will cause blindness or moderate to severe visual impairment.

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Blindness
Wish Foundations

Independent Living/Older Blind (ILOB) | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides training to help people with low vision to be independent in their homes. Services include assessment of needs, training with cooking utensils, cooking surfaces, telephones, controls for cooling/heating, cleaning procedures and use of equipment, and mobility training in the home and neighborhood. Provides assistive devices where indicated.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Independent Living/Older Blind (ILOB) | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides training to help people with low vision to be independent in their homes. Services include assessment of needs, training with cooking utensils, cooking surfaces, telephones, controls for cooling/heating, cleaning procedures and use of equipment, and mobility training in the home and neighborhood. Provides assistive devices where indicated.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Bureau Of Services For The Visually Impaired | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides vocational rehabilitation and other services for Ohioans who are blind or have a visual impairment.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Visual Impairments

Blind And Low Vision Services | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

What's Here

Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Prevocational Training
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
Tuition Assistance

Business Enterprise Program (BEP) | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.

What's Here

Small Business Development
Visual Impairments

Business Enterprise Program (BEP) | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.

What's Here

Small Business Development
Visual Impairments

That All May Read | National Library Service For The Blind And Print Disabled

Administers a free library program of Braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States.

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People With Disabilities/Health Conditions
Braille Materials/Collections
Visual Impairments
Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic
Home Library Services

Blind And Low Vision Services | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

What's Here

Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Prevocational Training
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
Tuition Assistance

Play Hard. Don'T Blink. Sports Eye Safety Program | Ohio Department Of Health

The Play Hard. Don't Blink. program (PHDB) provides qualifying children a free pair of prescription sports goggles. Designed for use by players of ALL sports – including but not limited to: racket sports, girls lacrosse, field hockey, basketball, baseball, and soccer. This program is unique to Ohio and is made possible through a grant from the Ohio Department of Health's Save Our Sight Program (SOS).

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Protective Eyewear
Visual Impairments
Specialized Information and Referral

American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio - Scholarship | American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio

Offers scholarship opportunities at the Ohio State University, University of Toledo, and Wright State University, to visually impaired students or anyone endeavoring to be a teacher of blind children.

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Scholarships
Blindness

Independent Living/Older Blind (ILOB) | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides training to help people with low vision to be independent in their homes. Services include assessment of needs, training with cooking utensils, cooking surfaces, telephones, controls for cooling/heating, cleaning procedures and use of equipment, and mobility training in the home and neighborhood. Provides assistive devices where indicated.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Blind And Low Vision Services | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

What's Here

Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Prevocational Training
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
Tuition Assistance

Business Enterprise Program (BEP) | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.

What's Here

Small Business Development
Visual Impairments

Blind And Low Vision Services | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

What's Here

Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Prevocational Training
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
Tuition Assistance

Blind And Low Vision Services | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

What's Here

Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Prevocational Training
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
Tuition Assistance

Disease/Disability Information For Visual Impairments | Akron Blind Center

Maintains information about community resources that are appropriate for people with visual challenges. Links individuals who are in need of specialized services with appropriate resources.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Visual Impairments
Disease/Disability Information

Play Hard. Don'T Blink / Super Spec - Individuals | Ohio Ophthalmological Society

Program provides prescription sports goggles to vision-impaired youth from low-income families. Goggles can be used in a variety of sports, including basketball, baseball, soccer, racket sports, girls lacrosse and field hockey.

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Sports Equipment
Visual Impairments

Bureau Of Services For The Visually Impaired | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides vocational rehabilitation and other services for Ohioans who are blind or have a visual impairment.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Visual Impairments

Business Enterprise Program (BEP) | Opportunities For Ohioans With Disabilities

Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.

What's Here

Small Business Development
Visual Impairments