Direct Services

Social Work

Includes individual and family adjustment to vision loss counseling, support groups, and referrals to appropriate community services.

Rehabilitation Teaching

Helps an individual adjust to a visual impairment and maintain his/her independence by developing practical skills of daily living, such as cooking, banking, personal grooming and home management, reading and writing Braille, diabetes management/education.

Orientation & Mobility Instruction

Involves specialized training on a one-to-one basis to help an individual develop safe independent travel skills and learn new routes and environments.

Low Vision Services

Provided by eye care professional and low vision therapists. These services assist people who are partially sighted to use their remaining vision more effectively, through low vision evaluations and training in the use of low vision aids.

Educational Services

Programs for school-age children who are experiencing visual difficulties and/or blindness: specialized instruction in disability-specific compensatory skills and adaptive techniques provided by a Teacher/Consultant of the Visually Impaired. Includes orientation and mobility, personal management and alternative communication skills. Also provided, information and support to families and to other professionals.

Technology Service

Demonstration of and training in a variety of high and low-tech devices and Braille products; information and referral to services and training; consultation and advocacy on funding and use of equipment. Computer lab for individual/group training.

Volunteer Services

In-Home Community Visitors and/or Drivers provide needed support to clients in their own communities. At the McGreal Sight Center, volunteers assist with clerical work, educational programs, the technology lab, the recording studio and special events.

Public Education

Speakers Bureau, workshops, pamphlets on eye diseases, educational videos, advocacy.

Also Available

Braille and audio transcription services

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