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Association for the Blind
This nonprofit Association for the Blind (AFTB) is committed to improving the quality of life for the visually impaired through services, programs and advocacy by promoting independence and self-sufficiency, and helping individuals to participate fully in their communities.
Through its Vision Rehabilitation Center, AFTB has been providing comprehensive in-home vision rehabilitation services since 2002 through its Medicare-approved Living Well with Partial Vision program, which serves people experiencing vision loss from macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, strokes or accidents.
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Living Well with Partial Vision - ReFocus
- ReFocus on Children
- Computer Training
- Veterans Services
- Social Events and Advocacy
- Scholarships for the Care of Guide Dogs
- Low Vision Aids Rental Program
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Living Well with Partial Vision is a Medicare-approved comprehensive vision rehabilitation program established in 2002 for individuals with severe vision loss. Occupational Therapists specially trained in low vision rehabilitation provide in-home treatment to individuals who are experiencing severe vision loss from macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, strokes and accidents.
The program is designed to impart skills so that individuals can maintain independence and maximize the use of whatever remaining vision they may have. Clients help determine individualized goals and learn such skills as meal preparation, medication management, health and safety, and use of low vision devices (magnifiers, talking watches, clocks and thermometers, boiling water sensors, 20/20 writing pens, large TV remote controls, etc.), to name a few. For instance, women are often grateful to re-learn how to apply their make-up or tweeze embarrasing facial hair.
The Living Well with Partial Vision program serves around 200 individuals annually. Upon successful completion of the program, 80 percent of participants maintain a long-term improvement in knowledge, skills and self-sufficiency in activities of self-care and home-management, and 86 percent increased their reading/writing ability through the use of low vision devices and proper lighting.
The Association for the Blind is grateful to Trident United Way for the grant funds it provides for the Living Well with Partial Vision program.