NewView Oklahoma - AFB Directory Profile
General Information
NewView Oklahoma
501 North Douglas Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73106-3124
(405) 232-4644 (Local)
(405) 236-5438 (Fax)
(888) 522-4644 (Toll-Free)
info@newviewoklahoma.org
http://www.newviewoklahoma.org/
Brief Description
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:
Hours of operation: Mon.-Fri. 7:15 AM-3:45 PM.
Number of staff: 18
Staff description: President/CEO, Controller, Accounting Supervisor, Accounts Receivable Manager, Human Resource Manager, New Product Engineer, Director of Special Programs and Services, Director of Sales, Plant Manager, 2 Developmental Coordinators, 3 production supervisors, and 3 service contract supervisors.
Geographic area served: Oklahoma and Kansas
Publications: News & Views (newsletter).
Locations
OKC Low Vision Clinic
710 W. Wilshire, Ste 102
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Tulsa Low Vision Center
5986 S. Yale Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74135
Staff
Lauren Branch, President/CEO, lbranch@newviewoklahoma.org
Cathy Holden, Senior VP of Rehabilitation Services, cholden@newviewoklahoma.org
Services Offered
Services for Adults
- Braille and Reading Instruction
- Our vision rehabilitation services include expert Braille instruction in reading and creating a variety of communications for education, lifestyle management, business, and entertainment. We are able to help businesses’ and communities’ public spaces more accessible for the blind and visually impaired.
- Community Outreach Programs
- NewView Oklahoma proudly offers an artistic outlet to blind and visually impaired individuals through Creative Visions art classes for adults. NewView sponsors a blind and visually-impaired dragon boating team that competes in several boat festivals throughout the year in Oklahoma City on the Oklahoma River.
- Computer Training/Assistive Technology
- Computer assisted technology is offered to help clients learn how to use and utilize computers through accessibility software. The software that we teach ranges from magnification programs to screen readers to graphic-to-text scanning software. Our lessons can be adapted for clients who are computer-saavy and simply need to learn the software to clients who aren’t familiar with computers.
- Daily Living Skills/Independent Living Skills Training
- Our occupational therapy service is designed to assist clients in maximizing their remaining vision. Our low vision occupational therapists can identify the best techniques and equipment to improve a client’s level of independence. Occupational therapy provides assessment and training specific to daily needs and activities.
- Employment/Job Training
- NewView offers vocational evaluation, job retraining, job placement within the agency, and training in occupational skills.
- Low Vision Services
- NewView’s comprehensive Low Vision Clinics offer assessments, routine care and low vision solutions and devices to people with impaired vision that cannot be corrected with glasses, surgery or medication. The NewView Oklahoma Low Vision Clinic serves the general public by providing individualized solutions for people who are experiencing vision loss.
- Support Groups
- As with any major life transition, support and welcoming understanding is always needed, and NewView Oklahoma proudly offers a veteran’s support group, Veterans’ Independence Through Adaptive Living (VITAL), and hosts Eyes Just Talking. These support groups for the blind and visually impaired in Oklahoma, provide a forum for sharing your experience, ideas, exchange of feelings and swapping of practical information among blind or visually-impaired members and their families or friends.
- Travel/Orientation and Mobility
- Orientation and mobility training works to give a client the skills to move safely and confidently around the home, neighborhood, work environment, and beyond. Our orientation and mobility specialist will assess the goals set, whether that is going out to get the mail, walking with a cane, or navigating a public space so that the client can become oriented with surroundings and move with assurance.
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