Call 352-435-5040 if you or someone you know has a visual impairment
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Serving the Visually
Impaired of Lake and Sumter Counties, Florida Including The Villages Call 352-435-5040 if you or someone you know has a visual impairment |
Individuals must have a visual impairment in
both eyes that is affecting their ability to perform everyday activities.
Provides rehabilitation instruction and guidance
that helps individuals acquire skills and knowledge to manage their daily lives,
and enables adults with low vision or blindness to live more independently in
their homes and communities with a maximum degree of independence.
Provides rehabilitation instruction and guidance
that helps individuals seeking employment to acquire skills and knowledge to
prepare for, enter, engage in, or retain gainful employment
Early Intervention Services are provided to enhance all areas of child development. Services are specialized as they relate to blindness and visual impairment. The Blind babies Program helps to ensure that visually impaired and blind children enter school as ready as their sighted classmates. It also links children and their families to other available resources that could assist these families in the future.
Types of services may include:
· Information
and Referral
· Assessment
of Need
· Independent
Living Skills Training
· Braille
Instruction
· Access
Technology and Computer Instruction
· Orientation
and Mobility Training (Skills to travel independently, cross streets...)
· Adjustment
to Blindness
· Advocacy
Training
· Low
Vision Aids and Appliances
· Vocational
Training
· Family
Workshops
· Support
Groups
· Public
Education
All services are provided at no cost to the
visually impaired participant.
Sponsored by:
DOE/DBS and the State of Florida
Lake County Human Services
Community Foundation
2010 US Census
9501 US Hwy 441
Leesburg, FL 34788