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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

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

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.

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Library Services
Visual Impairments
Low Vision Aids

National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania - Program and Services

Provides education about blindness, referral services, scholarship information, publications, and any aids, appliances, or adaptive equipment needed. Also provides advocacy services, counseling, guidance, and support for the blind and their families.

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Advocacy
Visual Impairments
Assistive Technology Information

Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry - Erie Blindness & Visual Services

Assists Pennsylvanians who are blind or visually impaired gain the skills necessary to live and work independently in their communities. Services include vocational rehabilitation, orientation and mobility instruction, and independent living skills instruction. The Randolph-Sheppard Business Enterprise Program (BEP) assists persons operate food service businesses in commercial, industrial or governmental locations.

What's Here

Vocational Rehabilitation
Orientation and Mobility Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments

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.

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

American Council of the Blind - Blind and Low Vision Resources

Provides services and resources to blind and visually impaired people. Services include non-medical information and referral, the ACB Braille Forum (available in braille, large print, digital cartridge, email, online, and podcast), the ACB E-Forum (available via email, online, and podcast), legislative and governmental monitoring, scholarship assistance, and public education.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Disability Rights Groups
Advocacy

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.

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

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

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

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Libraries
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Visual Impairments

Central Susquehanna Sight Services - Good Eye Health and Safety Educational Program

Promotes public education through press releases and public service announcements. Provides educational materials on a variety of eye conditions, and prepares presentations on a variety of topics related to blindness and vision loss. Also, provides educational programs on good eye health and good eye safety for preschoolers and adults. Sensitivity to blindness training available

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Disability Awareness Training
Visual Impairments

Vision Resources of Central Pennsylvania - Life Enrichment Support Group

Offers mutual support group.

What's Here

Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments

Montgomery County Association for the Blind - Case Management

Case management about services and resources outside of our agency to ensure that those living with low vision are continuing to be independent.

What's Here

Case/Care Management
Blindness
Advocacy

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.

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Visual Impairments
Disease Prevention Programs
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education

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.

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

VisAbility - Public Awareness/Education

Provides educational services for the blind and visually impaired. Promotes public awareness for visual impairment. Conducts engagements with the corporate and business community, community and civic organizations, and schools and universities.

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Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Printed/Printable Materials
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education
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

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

Northeast Sight Services - Camp Sight

Providing a summer day camp with an instructional program that teaches children the daily living and socialization skills they need to become independent, productive members of the community.

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Visual Impairments
Summer Camps

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.

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

Fayette County Association for the Blind - Information and Referral Services

Provides specialized information and referral services for individuals with visual impairments.

What's Here

Specialized Information and Referral
Visual Impairments

American Council of the Blind - Blind and Low Vision Resources

Provides services and resources to blind and visually impaired people. Services include non-medical information and referral, the ACB Braille Forum (available in braille, large print, digital cartridge, email, online, and podcast), the ACB E-Forum (available via email, online, and podcast), legislative and governmental monitoring, scholarship assistance, and public education.

What's Here

Visual Impairments
Disability Rights Groups
Advocacy

North Central Sight Services - Vision Rehabilitation

Offers individualized instruction on independent living skills for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. The assessment and instruction can take place off-site or in the Abe Snyder Memorial Resource Center. The center is equipped with a full kitchen, a seating area for group activities, and a demonstration area for various technology aids.

What's Here

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments

Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry - Wilkes-Barre Blindness & Visual Services

Assists PA residents who are blind or visually impaired to secure and maintain employment and independence. Provides training and adaptive devices to assist with adjustment to vision loss.

What's Here

Blind Mobility Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Job Finding Assistance
Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Voice/Audio Output Aids
Braille and Tactile Aids
Case/Care Management
Low Vision Aids

Pennsylvania Association for the Blind - Comprehensive Programming

Offers client services through the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind's 25 member agencies. Note: The Association does not provide direct services.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Visual Impairments
Case/Care Management

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.

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

VisionCorps - VisionCorps Lancaster

Supports and promotes the interests of the blind and the prevention of blindness through a wide range of services, including: - Vocational Services - Rehabilitation and Social Services teach vision impaired persons and their family's techniques and use of adaptive equipment to promote independence - Glaucoma screenings, Kid Sight screenings - Vision Voucher Program - Referrals to local ophthalmologists for diagnosis and treatment, eye examinations and refractions for low income individuals without medical insurance - Assistance for the purchase of single lens eyeglasses for low-income individuals - Braille Transcription - Sight Loss Support Groups

What's Here

Low Vision Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille Transcription
Library Services
Visual Impairments
Volunteer Opportunities
Eye Examinations
Glasses/Contact Lenses
Eye Care Referrals
Supported Employment
Case/Care Management
Vocational Rehabilitation
Eye Screening

VisAbility - Public Awareness/Education

Provides educational services for the blind and visually impaired. Promotes public awareness for visual impairment. Conducts engagements with the corporate and business community, community and civic organizations, and schools and universities.

What's Here

Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Printed/Printable Materials
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education
Visual Impairments