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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

Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation

Health Information And Education - Blindness | National Federation Of The Blind

Blind volunteers provide information and referral to other blind people. Purpose is to encourage the newly blind and the parents of blind children.

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Visual Impairments
Disease/Disability Information

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

Independent Living Skills Instruction
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
Braille Instruction
Prevocational Training
Tuition Assistance
Small Business Development
Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation

Talking Books / Braille | Cleveland Public Library

Offers recorded books, brailled books, books specifically for the reading disabled, audio output aides, and voice recorded devices.

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Audio Recording Services
Public Libraries
Visual Impairments
Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic
Braille Materials/Collections
Voice/Audio Output Aids

Support Group | American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio

Provides support groups and general advocacy for the blind or visually impaired and their family members. Support group members may help others find minor equipment, such as magnifying devices, and makes referrals to other local agencies.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
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

Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation

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

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

Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation

Css Employment Services | Community Support Services

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.

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Developmental Disabilities
Vocational Rehabilitation
Mental Health Issues
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

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

School For The Blind | Ohio State School For The Blind

Provides education for children with blindness, low vision, deafblind and visual impairments with multiple disabilities. Offers PK-12+ educational programming. Vocational training is available. Day school and residential school programs available.

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Special Education
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

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments

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

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments

Information/Speakers - Visual Impairments | Prevent Blindness - Ohio Affiliate

Offers information and referral services and provides printed materials regarding eye health and safety. Provides trained speakers who can discuss prevention of eye injuries, eye diseases, and related eye topics.

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Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Visual Impairments
Disease/Disability Information

Blindness Support Group | Toledo Blind Outreach Center

Provides a low-vision/blind support group. Dinner is provided.

What's Here

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

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

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

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments

Disease/Disability Information For Visual Impairments | National Eye Institute

Provides information about the etiology, symptoms, preventive measures, screening/diagnostic procedures, and/or methods of treatment or management for a variety of eye diseases and conditions. Disseminates information about the latest research with regard to eye disease. Note: Cannot provide personalized medical advice.

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Disease/Disability Information
Medical Information Services
Visual Impairments

Adaptive Equipment Payment Assistance | American Council Of The Blind- Ohio Chapter

Helps pay for adaptive equipment for the visually impaired. Will pay for up to 50% or $1000 maximum benefit.

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Visual Impairments
Assistive Technology Expense 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

Vocational Evaluation | Goodwill Industries Of South Central Ohio

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.

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Ex-Offenders
Career Counseling
Developmental Disabilities
Homeless People
Visual Impairments
Physical Disabilities

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