1001 North Bruce Street
Las Vegas, NV 89101
702-642-6000
702-649-6739 (Fax)
www.blindcenter.org
E-mail: info@blindcenter.org  

The Blind Center offers many opportunities for the visually impaired to acquire skills necessary to enhance or develop a career. Hand-in-hand with career development, The Blind Center provides several unique products and services to the business community such as:

• Computer and Electronics Recycling
• Order Fulfillment
• Call Center 
• Information Hotline
• Product and Kit Assembly
• Contract Packaging 
• Chair Caning 
• Braille Translation 
• Adaptive Workplace Technology

6375 West Charlston Boulevard
WCL #200
Las Vegas, NV 89146
702-631-9009
http://blindconnect.org
E-mail: contact@blindconnect.org

Provides information, referral, and peer support for blind persons. Programs and services include Daily Living Lab, Self-Advocacy Training, Adjustment to Blindness, and quarterly meetings.

Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults
National Office Headquarters:
141 Middle Neck Road
Sands Point, NY 11050-1218
Switchboard hours: 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
516-944-8900 (Voice)
516-944-8908 (VP)
516-944-8637 (TTY)
516-944-7302 (Fax)
E-mail: hkncinfo@hknc.org

Regional Representative contact information: www.hknc.org/FieldServicesREGREPADD.htm

The Center provides services to youth and adults who are deaf-blind according to the definition of deaf-blindness in the Helen Keller Act. The national center in New York and regional offices that serve each state provide advocacy, support groups, information, and services to people who have both a vision and a hearing loss.

The mission of the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults (HKNC) is to enable each person who is deaf-blind to live and work in his or her community of choice. Authorized by an Act of Congress in 1967, the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults is a national rehabilitation program serving youth and adults who are deaf-blind.

90 Bridge Street, Suite 100
Westbrook, ME 04092
207-857-9001
207-857-9199 (Fax)
www.itnamerica.org
Send E-mail to ITNAmerica

ITNAmerica is a national non-profit organization that provides transportation to seniors and adults with visual impairments. ITNAmerica provides rides with door-through-door, arm-through-arm service and allows older people to trade their own cars to pay for rides and enables volunteer drivers to store transportation credits for their own future transportation needs.

ITNAmerica's affiliate communities include Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Portland, ME; Orlando, Sarasota, FL; Los Angeles, San Diego, Monterey CA; Lexington, KY; Enfield, Middlesex, Middletown, and Fairfield County, CT; the Quad Cities of IA; Cincinnati, OH; Las Vegas, NV; Racine, WI; St. Charles, Kansas City MO; Westchester County, NY; Boston, Framingham MA

8450 West Charleston Blvd. #1020
Las Vegas, NV 89117
702-522-7739
www.lasvegaslowvision.com

Specializing in electronic video magnification systems (CCTVs) and high-powered electronic magnifying products for people who have low vision, are visually impaired, and are legally blind.

P.O. Box 5152
Fallon, NV 89407
www.lindavevision.com
E-mail: info@lindavevision.com

Products include electronics, household products, lamps, magnifiers, telephones, health products, watches, and clocks.

Low Vision Services
3201 Lakeside Drive
Reno, Nevada 89509
775-825-0559
www.meiereyeandvision.com  
E-mail: info@meiereyeandvision.com  

1370 South Curry Street
Carson City, NV 89703
775-684-4070 (Voice/TDD)
775-684-4186 (Fax)
www.nvdetr.org

Services to the Blind and Visually Impaired
http://detr.state.nv.us/rehab/reh_bvi.htm

Services include:

• Adaptive Training
• Business Enterprise Program
• Independent Living/Daily Living
• Low Vision Exams and Aids
• Mobility Training
• Vocational Rehabilitation

Low Vision Services
Sandy Yesnick, OTR/L
10198 West Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 89147
866-610-0895 (Toll free)
702-966-2020
702-966-2022 (Fax)
http://lowvisionservices.com
E-mail: info@lowvisionservices.com  

www.va.gov 
Contact the VA

The mission of the Veterans' Healthcare System (VHA) is to serve the needs of America's veterans by providing primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services. Approximately a quarter of the nation's population -- approximately 70 million people -- are potentially eligible for VA benefits and services because they are veterans, family members or survivors of veterans.

Facilities Locator Home Page: 
Use this search feature to locate VA facility-related information quickly and accurately.

Fact Sheets about VA Services:
Use this search feature to locate VA News Releases and Fact Sheets on topics that include health care and benefits.

Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Veterans:
The mission of the VA Blind Rehabilitation Service is to coordinate a healthcare service delivery system that provides a continuum of care for blinded veterans extending from their home environment to the local VA facility and to the appropriate rehabilitation setting.

Visual Impairment Service Team (VIST):
The Visual Impairment Service Team (VIST) Coordinator serves as the initial contact person for getting help with vision loss. VIST Coordinators are located at local VA Medical Centers across the country. They work to ensure that veterans with visual impairments receive appropriate benefits and services.

The VIST Coordinator is a case manager who has major responsibility for the coordination of all services for legally blind veterans and their families. Duties include providing and/or arranging for the provision of appropriate treatment plans and programs in order to enhance a blinded veteran's functioning level.

Other duties include identifying new cases of blindness, providing professional counseling, resolving problems, arranging annual healthcare reviews, and conducting education programs relating to blindness.

Services for blind and visually impaired veterans include:

• Orientation and Mobility
• Independent Living Skills
• Manual Skills
• Visual Skills and Low Vision Services
• Computer Access Training
• Physical Conditioning
• Recreation
• Adjustment to Blindness
• Family Program

Low Vision Services
8937 W. Sahara Avenue, Suite A
Las Vegas, NV 89117
702-254-3558
www.visionsourcevegas.com
E-mail: info@visionsourcevegas.com

Vision Source Las Vegas is a network of optometrists that provides patients with personal care and service while offering advanced medical technology and innovative products to promote eye health. Vision Source doctors are committed to continuing education and offering patients procedures to detect and correct eye conditions.

Harold Blethen, Coordinator
775-351-7379
E-mail: visionscopegroups@yahoo.com

Dayton Senior Center
320 Old Dayton Valley Road
First Monday of the month at 1:00 PM

Fallon Senior Center
310 East Court Street
Third Tuesday of the month at 10:00 AM

Carson City Senior Center
911 Beverly Drive
Second Wednesday of the month at 11:15 AM

Fernley Senior Center
1170 West Newlands Drive
Fourth Friday of the month at 1:00 PM