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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.

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.

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.

Provides relay services for individuals with impaired vision. During these relay calls, the Communication Assistant (CA) will type at a normal speed, but the message will come across at a rate of 15 words per minute, allowing users to achieve a more readable rhythm. Users can also request increased or decreased rates of text in increments of 5 words per minute.

Offers a curriculum about eye health and safety for children in kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades.

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.

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.

Maintains a database of clinical trials related to eye disease.

Provides assessment to identify the individual's academic and vocational capabilities. Participants complete a variety of pencil and paper, computerized or simulated activities to determine their work kills, transferable skills, aptitudes, academic abilities and interests. A written report is forwarded to the client's referral source.

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.

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.

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.

Offers a summer camp for children who are blind or are visually impaired.

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.

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.

Offers activities, health and wellness programs, and computer classes for those with visual challenges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1. Information and Referral - The Case Manager provides information to people contacting The Sight Center of Northwest Ohio seeking information for accessing needed vision-related or other community services. 2. Education and In-Service - Group or individual instruction in vision care and services available to address specific needs. 3. The Shop at The Sight Center - Numerous adaptive aids such as talking clocks, writing guides, large print or Braille playing cards, memo recorder/players, magnifiers, CCTV's, etc. are for sale to people in need because of loss of vision. 4. Appliance Safety Marking - A Rehabilitation Teacher puts tactile marks on oven dials, microwave buttons, dryers, etc. to ensure the safety of a person with a visual impairment. 5. Social Services - A Case Manager performs assessments of a consumer's needs and facilitates team conferences and referral source communication. For services that aren't available through The Sight Center of Northwest Ohio, the Case Manager refers to outside community services or links the consumer to another service provider than can assist. 6. Adaptive Computer Technology Services - Consultation, evaluation, and training in the use of non-visual software and hardware options. 7. Vision Rehabilitation Interdisciplinary Assessment and Optical Aid Training - Provides an optometric examination and rehabilitation treatment for low vision (vision loss uncorrected by the use of conventional contact lenses and glasses by an eye care professional referral ONLY). Low vision devices include magnifiers, closed circuit televisions, and proper lighting. 8. Orientation and Mobility Training - Provides consultation, evaluation, and training in safe travel techniques within the person's home and community. 9. Rehabilitation Teaching - Provides consultation, evaluation, and training in the use of adaptive aids and daily living skills (budget/money management, child/dependent care, clothing care, laundry, home maintenance, meal preparation, shopping, cleaning, etc.) 10. Newsline - This is a free program offered by the National Federation of the Blind which allows a print handicapped person to dial a local number and listen to his/her local paper, national papers, and magazines.

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.

Offers job placement and job coaching for individuals with a severe and persistent mental illness or developmental disabilities. Provides pre-screened workers matched to needs of an employer and individualized on-the-job training. Provides contracted work crews. Educates employers concerning disabilities.