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Office of Vocational Rehabilitation - Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services

Assists individuals who are blind or visually impaired gain the skills necessary to live and work independently in their communities.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Pennsylvania Association for the Blind - Prevention of Blindness

Finds undetected, yet treatable eye conditions in children through vision screenings. Provides vision screenings and educational presentations to pre-schools, kindergarten registrations, and health fairs.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Eye Screening
Disease/Disability Information

North Central Sight Services - Social Services for the Blind

Provides a comprehensive program of individualized services to keep people living as independently as possible. Services range from one-time appointments to biweekly meetings. Also offers transportation and escort to doctor's appointments or grocery shopping when other resources are unavailable. Casework Associates can assist with reading mail and paying bills.

What's Here

Reading Services for People With Disabilities
Life Skills Education
Case/Care Management
Visual Impairments

Vision Resource Center of Berks County - Workshop

Provides employment for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Promotes development of individual skill sets.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education
Workshops/Symposiums
Disability Related Center Based Employment

VisionCorps - Lebanon Alley Center for the Blind

Provides services free of charge to residents in Lebanon County who are blind or vision impaired. Services include: - Orientation and Mobility Instruction - Recreational activities and support groups - Rehabilitation training - Vocational and employment opportunities for those who are blind and vision impaired throughout Lebanon County - Vision Voucher Program Also offers a Low-vision store and receive help in choosing aids and appliances to assist them with

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Eye Screening
Low Vision Aids
Visual Impairments
Orientation and Mobility Training

Montgomery County Association for the Blind - Social Services

Provides comprehensive, direct social service support through professional staff with expertise in sight loss. Services include home visitation and case management, information about available services, assessment, referrals, home management assistance, and counseling.

What's Here

Advocacy
Case/Care Management
Blindness

Northeast Sight Services - Adjustment to Vision Loss

The Adjustment to Vision Loss Program consists of four service areas which include Initial Assessment, Adaptive Aids for Daily Living, Referral & Advocacy Services, and Sight Loss Support Groups.

What's Here

Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Life Skills Education
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Visual Impairments

Sight Center of NWPA - Support Group for those with Severe Vision Loss

Provides a severe vision loss support group. Learn the latest adaptations, make friends, practice skills, and experience new things. Transportation may be available.

What's Here

Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments

Lackawanna Blind Association - Social Activity

Offers social activity programs for the blind including exercise classes, descriptive movies, audio book club, seasonal parties, and outings.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Social Clubs/Events

Northeast Sight Services - Eye Health and Safety Education

We provide adults and children with age-appropriate information and tools they can use to help prevent blindness through our free eye health and safety education programs.

What's Here

Eye Screening
Disease Prevention Programs
Visual Impairments

Pennsylvania Association for the Blind - Low Vision Services

Offers evaluation with a Low Vision Specialist, demonstration of assistive aids and appliances, digital talking book (a free library service), assistance with handicap placard, Telephone Directory Assistance exemption, and purchase of low vision aids such as UV shields, magnifiers, large print items, etc.

What's Here

Optometry
Visual Impairments
Assistive Technology Information
Evaluation for Assistive Technology

Vision Services of Washington-Greene - Support Services

Offers information and referral as well as life skills education designed to inform individuals with visual impairments about community resources and services, health care and medical options, banking and home care.

What's Here

Specialized Information and Referral
Disease/Disability Information
Life Skills Education
Visual Impairments

Library of Accessible Media for Pennsylvanians - Accessible Media Types for Print Disabled Pennsylvanians

Offers a library of accessible media types and assistive technology equipment.

What's Here

Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Visual Impairments
Libraries

Bucks County Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired - Low Vision Clinic

Provides evaluations, aids and devices, technology, training and resource assistance and a lending library to individuals with blindness or visual impairment.

What's Here

Optometry
Life Skills Education
Braille and Tactile Aids
Occupational Therapy
Low Vision Aids
Visual Impairments

North Central Sight Services - Low Vision Store

Store offering a number of products including, cooking utensils and kitchen products, handheld and electronic magnifiers, talking clocks and watches, writing and communication supplies, large-print games and playing cards, Eschenbach sunglasses, low vision lamps, tactile marking products (to identify important buttons and settings on appliances and other devices), and large button telephones and remote controls.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Library Services
Low Vision Aids

VisionCorps - Sight Loss Support Group

Educational and peer support groups, offered virtually, for visually impaired or blind persons who have been screened by VisionCorps. All currently virtual due to Covid-19 pandemic.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

Montgomery County Association for the Blind - Home Rehabilitation Instruction

Teaches daily living techniques and skills to better cope with the challenges sight loss presents in the home. Instruction may include learning tasks such as food preparation and kitchen safety, cleaning techniques, clothing organization, labeling, and more.

What's Here

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Home/Community Based Developmental Disabilities Programs
Visual Impairments

North Central Sight Services - Employment of Persons with Blindness or Visual Impairments

Manufactures, packaging and distributing products to the Federal Government and commercial customers. The AbilityOne Program creates employment opportunities for individuals who are blind or severely disabled. Business services include shredding, CD/DVD duplication and printing, custom logo USB flash drives, Flash drive and file preloading. They are also available as subcontractors for warehousing, distribution and shipping, light assembly, collating, packaging, and shrink wrapping.

What's Here

Disability Related Center Based Employment
Job Finding Assistance
Visual Impairments

VisAbility - Personal Adjustment to Blindness to Training

Teaches individuals who are blind, vision-impaired, or deaf-blind how to use their other senses, special equipment, and new techniques to live independently. General curricula have been established, but each individual benefits from an individualized program.

What's Here

Case/Care Management
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Activities of Daily Living Assessment
Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments

Beaver County Association for the Blind - Prevention of Blindness

Educates the public about the causes, symptoms, and prevention of vision loss.

What's Here

Disease/Disability Information
Visual Impairments

Chester County Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired - Vision Support

Offers monthly virtual support groups, on-site vision support services, trainings, and informal group meetings. Loans vision-related assistive technology, conducts eye exams, and supplies eyeglasses for those who cannot afford them through referrals or funding. Also provides employment opportunities for individuals who are legally blind, and public education to prevent blindness and vision impairment.

What's Here

Job Development
Visual Impairments
Recreational Activities/Sports
Specialized Information and Referral
Volunteer Opportunities
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Information
Supported Employment
Braille Instruction

Vision Resources of Central Pennsylvania - Life Enrichment Support Group

Offers mutual support group.

What's Here

Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments

Keystone Blind Association - Mobility and Rehabilitation Training

Provides instruction with mobility and orientation, as well as adaptive techniques that enable visually impaired and blind persons to independently perform daily living tasks and to travel safely in the home and in the community.

What's Here

Blindness
Independent Living Skills Instruction

NuVisions Center - Training and Supportive Services

Offers transportation to our vision-impaired clients to medical appointments and essential community resources, and transportation to our low vision and diabetic support groups, which are held quarterly. Provides support services encompassing a variety of activities, from organizing shopping lists and household items to reading mail and assisting clients with paying bills.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Disability Related Transportation
Attendant Services for People With Disabilities
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance

North Central Sight Services - Blindness Education Programs

Presents education and public awareness programs that promote the importance of good eye health and safety, and share information about potentially blinding eye conditions. Shares important information about signs and symptoms of various eye diseases and conditions,and ways to keep and make the most out of the vision you have.

What's Here

Disease Prevention Programs
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education
Visual Impairments