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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

Activities And Classes For Visual Impairments | Akron Blind Center

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

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Computer Literacy Training Programs
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

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

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

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
Tuition Assistance
Visual Impairments
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
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

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

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

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 - 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.

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Blindness
Scholarships

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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Visual Impairments
Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Disease/Disability Information

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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Visual Impairments
Therapeutic Camps

Nfb-Newsline | National Federation Of The Blind

Offers a free service to those who cannot read regular newsprint. Offers over 400 publications to choose from, including ten national newspapers li, sixteen news sources , fourteen international newspapers, and many state newspapers, as well as fifty magazines.

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Reading Services for People With Disabilities
Blindness

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
Tuition Assistance
Visual Impairments
Small Business Development
Vocational Rehabilitation
Braille Instruction
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.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

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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Specialized Information and Referral
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

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

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

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

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

Specialized Information And Referral For Visual Impairments | National Federation Of The Blind Of Ohio

Maintains information about community resources that are appropriate for people with visual impairments. Offers encouragement for parents of blind children and newly blind people.

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Visual Impairments
Specialized Information and Referral

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