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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.

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

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.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments

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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Wish Foundations
Blindness

Play It Safe With Your Eyes | Prevent Blindness - Ohio Affiliate

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

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Visual Impairments
Printed/Printable Materials

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.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
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.

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Small Business Development
Visual Impairments

Scholarships For The Blind | National Federation Of The Blind

Provides scholarships for blind students to use to continue their education past high school. Scholarships can be used to attend any post-secondary school or graduate school program. There is a national scholarship program and a state scholarship program. Students may apply to both.

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Visual Impairments
Tuition Assistance

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 Social Clubs
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

Day Camp | Ohio State School For The Blind

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

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Therapeutic Camps
Blindness

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

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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Prevocational Training
Adapted Health Care Devices
Blindness
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.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments

Scholarships For Visual Impairments | National Federation Of The Blind Of Ohio

Awards scholarships to blind students pursuing undergraduate or graduate studies.

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Scholarships
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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

Orientation And Mobility | Pilot Dogs

Two-week, in-residence training course. Designed for those individuals who are blind or visually impaired wishing to learn white cane travel, improve upon existing cane and traveling skills, and further their goal of becoming independent.

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Service Dog Training Instruction for Owners
Blindness

Disease/Disability Information For Visual Impairments | Prevent Blindness - Northeast Ohio Chapter

Provides eye health and eye safety information and brochures.

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Visual Impairments
Disease/Disability Information

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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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

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

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

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.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Visual Impairments

Cctv Leasing Program For People With Low Vision | Assistive Technology Of Ohio

Leasing of CCTV equiptment for persons with low vision.

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Visual Impairments
Low Vision Aids
Assistive Technology Equipment