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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.

What's Here

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

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

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

Activities And Classes For Visual Impairments | Akron Blind Center

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

What's Here

Computer Literacy Training Programs
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

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction

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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Homeless People
Physical Disabilities
Ex-Offenders
Developmental Disabilities
Career Counseling
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.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

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

Leader Dog Summer Experience Camp | Leader Dogs For The Blind

Offers a 1-week residential therapeutic camp for adolescents ages 16 and 17 with visual impairments or blindness. Offers leadership development, an introduction to guide dogs, and the opportunity to spend time with peers.

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Therapeutic Camps
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

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Supports And Services For Seniors And People With Id / Dd | Metzenbaum Sheltered Industries

Assist individuals in planning a career path through team based processes and discovery and a Job Coach. Client works one-on-one with an assigned job coach to create a step-by-step plan as deemed necessary by the team members.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Career Counseling
Physical Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities

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.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Tuition Assistance

Low Vision Support Group | Lakewood City Of - Department Of Human Services

Provides a support group for older adults experiencing any degree of vision loss or impairment.

What's Here

Health/Disability Related Support Groups
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

Visual Impairments
Small Business Development

Low Vision Support Group | Licking County Aging Partners

Low Vision Support Group provides the oppotunity to connect with others, gain helpful resources, and find support in a welcoming environment.

What's Here

Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments

American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio - Scholarship | American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio

Offers scholarship opportunities at the Ohio State University, University of Toledo, and Wright State University, to visually impaired students or anyone endeavoring to be a teacher of blind children.

What's Here

Blindness
Scholarships

Recreation/Sports - Physical Disabilities | American Council Of The Blind Of Ohio

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.

What's Here

Recreational Activities/Sports
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.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

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

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction

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

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.

What's Here

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

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

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction

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

Visual Impairments
Small Business Development

Recreational Programs | American Council Of The Blind- Ohio Chapter

Works to improve the lives of individuals who are visually impaired. Offers information and referral for equipment, talking books and training programs. Offers various recreation activities throughout the year.

What's Here

General Recreational Activities/Sports
Specialized Information and Referral
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
Disease/Disability Information
Visual Impairments