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

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments
Coordinates support groups for people with low vision. Groups are usually led by a trained low vision volunteer with support from Cleveland Sight Center social workers. The groups provide practical and experiential support.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments
Sponsors local community chapters that provide support services and general advocacy for the blind or visually impaired and their family members. Helps members find minor equipment, such as magnifying devices, and makes referrals to other local agencies.

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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Low Vision Aids
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.

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Visual Impairments
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille Instruction
Student Financial Aid
Provides a low-vision/blind support group. Dinner is provided.

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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
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.

Categories

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments
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.

Categories

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments
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.

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Visual Impairments
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille Instruction
Student Financial Aid
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.
Trains dogs to guide the blind. Provides two and a half weeks of in-residence training to successfully match the blind person with a guide dog. Room, board, all equipment, and round-trip transportation are provided free of charge to the student.
Sponsors local community chapters that provide support services and general advocacy for the blind or visually impaired and their family members. Helps members find minor equipment, such as magnifying devices, and makes referrals to other local agencies.

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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Low Vision Aids
Provides individuals with vision loss with a comprehensive overview of computer-access systems. Evaluates individuals' computer-related capabilities and skills, provides training on specific access software, and provides technical analysis and engineering support for computer environment.

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Visual Impairments
Assistive Technology Training
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Assistive Technology Information
Provides opportunities for persons with physical disabilities to participate in sports by using adaptive equipment. Disabled persons are assisted by trained volunteers and participate in lessons with a certified instructor. Offers downhill skiing, water skiing, cycling, and kayaking.

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Visual Impairments
Physical Disabilities
Recreational Activities/Sports
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.

Categories

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments
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.

Categories

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments
Provide services to help people with visual impairments gain or retain employment. Services could include evaluation, vocational counseling and guidance, providing adaptive equipment, training in the use of assistive technology (ex:JAWS) and orientation and mobility (helping people get around), treatment and job placement assistance.

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Adapted Health Care Devices
Prevocational Training
Blindness
Vocational Rehabilitation
Provides instruction in client's home in a variety of practical skills for safe and independent living. May include safe food preparation, cleaning techniques, clothing care, money management, budgeting, shopping, communication (Braille, keyboards, and telephone use) and orientation. Also offers case management to connect the client to necessary community services. Program is tailored to individual client's needs.

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Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Case/Care Management
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.

Categories

Visual Impairments
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille Instruction
Student Financial Aid
Provides vocational evaluation, counseling, and placement in any job. Length of program is tailored to individual's needs. Remedial training and specific skills training are available if necessary, and job retention support is also given.

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Visual Impairments
Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Provides reading services to people who are unable to use standard print materials because of a disability. Programming includes local, regional and national newspapers, grocery/retail store advertisements, magazines of all types, talk radio and other special interest programming, including disability related information.

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Blindness
Reading Services for People With Disabilities
Helps pay for adaptive equipment for the visually impaired. Will pay for up to 50% or $1000 maximum benefit.

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Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Visual Impairments
Awards scholarships to blind students pursuing undergraduate or graduate studies.

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Scholarships
Visual Impairments
Offers people with vision loss the skills necessary to achieve and maintain independence through employment. Provides an assessment and an individualized training plan.
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.