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Adapt Home Accessible Renovations, LLC

P.O. Box 337
Arcadia, OK 73007
405-537-0345
866-375-3088
www.adapthome.com
E-mail: adapthomeliving@gmail.com

Adapt Home Accessible Renovations provides home renovations for people with all types of disabilities, including visual impairment. Adapt Home specializes in kitchen and bathroom renovations, cabinet accessibility, door widening, grab bar installation, accessibility equipment, and home design.

Adapt Home has a consulting occupational therapist with extensive low vision experience who can recommend general low vision adaptations, including increasing contrast of surroundings, adding or changing lighting to meet specific visual needs.

Dean A. McGee Eye Institute

608 Stanton L. Young Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
800-354-3937 (EYES) (Toll free)
405-271-6060
www.dmei.org
Office and clinic locations

Low Vision Rehabilitation Service
Rebecca K. Morgan, M.D.
800-787-9012 (Toll free)
405-271-1793

The adult vision rehabilitation clinic offers help for those adult patients with vision loss that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses, or by medical or surgical means.

Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults

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.

Joplin Association for the Blind

Regional Low Vision Center
311 S. Shifferdecker Avenue
Joplin, MO 64801
417-623-5721
417-623-1968 (Fax)
www.jaforblind.org

The primary service area for the Joplin Association for the Blind and Regional Low Vision Resource Center is a 100-mile radius of Joplin, Missouri, serving the four-state areas of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

Services include:

  • Regional low vision center
  • Children’s braille and large type lending library
  • Joplin Service Club of the Blind
  • Joplin Association of the Blind Support Groups
  • Transportation
  • Information and referral

NanoPac, Inc.

4823 South Sheridan Road, Suite 302
Tulsa, OK 74145-5717
800-580-6086 (Toll free)
918-665-0329
918-665-2310 (TTY)
918-665-0361 (Fax)
www.nanopac.com
E-mail: info@nanopac.com

NanoPac supplies assistive technology products and services for individuals with disabilities, including low vision, blindness, hearing impairments, reading disabilities, and quadriplegia.

Products include reading machines, environmental controls, voice activation, augmentative communications, voice recognition, speech synthesis, text to speech, switches and switch mounts, magnifiers, and door openers.

NewView Oklahoma

(formerly Oklahoma League for the Blind)
501 North Douglas Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
405-232-4644
405-236-5438 (Fax)
www.newviewoklahoma.org
E-mail: info@newviewoklahoma.org

Since 1949, NewView Oklahoma has empowered blind and vision impaired individuals to achieve their maximum level of personal independence through employment, rehabilitation, and outreach.

NewView Oklahoma is a qualified 501(c)(3) private non-profit organization currently providing employment for over 100 people who are blind and generates 98 percent of its income through its own enterprise by:

  • Supplying contracted goods and services to government organizations and local businesses.
  • Manufacturing and wholesaling a diverse line of products for commercial and residential use.
  • Performing specialized services to major companies and organizations.

Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services

3535 N.W. 58th Street, Suite 500
Oklahoma City, OK 73112-4815
800-845-8476 (Toll free Voice/TTY)
405-951-3400 (Voice/TTY)
www.okrehab.org
E-mail: info@okdrs.org

Visual Services Rehabilitation programs and services include:

  • Business Enterprise Program (Vending Facilities)
  • Career Planning Centers
  • Assistive Technology Lab (Visual Services Center)
  • Supported Employment
  • Ticket to Work Transition from School to Work

Oklahoma Low Vision Institute

Oklahoma Low Vision Institute logo

www.oklahomalowvision.com

3431 South Boulevard, Suite 106
Edmond, OK 73013
405-562-2036
405-562-2116 (Fax)

2150 South Douglas Boulevard, Suite C
Midwest City, OK 73110
405-737-1000
405-741-4388 (Fax)

United States Department of Veterans’ Affairs

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
 

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