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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
Disease/Disability Information
Visual Impairments

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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Mental Health Issues
Vocational Rehabilitation
Developmental Disabilities
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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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments

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.

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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.

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Visual Impairments
Small Business Development

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

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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Visual Impairments
Small Business Development

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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Visual Impairments
Small Business Development

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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Blindness
Therapeutic Camps

Blind Truth Support Group | Soprema Senior Center

Offers a monthly support group for individuals that are visually impaired. Discusses coping, challenges, safety, finding visual aids, appliances, and other topics.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
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.

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

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

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

Wise About Eyes | Ohio Affiliate Of Prevent Blindness

Ohio's online vision health and eye safety resource for kids, parents, educators and healthcare professionals.

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Internet Information Resources
Visual Impairments

Daily Broadcasts Reading Service For The Blind | Voicecorps Reading Service

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

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

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

American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio | American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio

Offers Information and Referral services to Ohio residents and their families experiencing blindness and vision loss. Support groups and weekend activities are offered at various times throughout the year. ACB Ohio has a state conference held in Columbus each fall. Also, people interested in becoming a member for a small fee will recieve a quarterly newsletter.

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Blindness
Specialized Information and Referral

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
Home Library Services
Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic
Braille Materials/Collections
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.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments

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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Disease/Disability Information
Specialized Information and Referral
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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Visual Impairments
Scholarships

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

Clinical Trials For Visual Impairments | National Eye Institute

Maintains a database of clinical trials related to eye disease.

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Visual Impairments
Clinical Trials Information