The Self-help Resource Center for Vision LossNH - New Hampshire Vision Services
New Hampshire Association for the Blind
McGreal Sight Center
25 Walker Street
Concord, NH 03301-4599
800-464-3075 (Toll free)
603-224-4039 (seacoast)
www.sightcenter.com
E-mail: services@sightcenter.org
The New Hampshire Association for the Blind is the statewide leader in providing vision rehabilitation services for New Hampshire people of all ages who are blind and visually impaired. Founded in 1912, it provides services in virtually every community statewide and at the McGreal Sight Center in Concord.
Services include:
- Social Work
- Rehabilitation Teaching
- Orientation and Mobility Instruction
- Low Vision Services
- Educational Services
- Technology Service
- Volunteer Services
- Public Education
- Braille and audio transcription services
New Hampshire Department of Education - Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Department of Education
21 South Fruit Street, Suite 20
Concord, NH 03301
800-581-6881 (Toll free)
603-271-3537
603-271-3471 (Voice/TTY)
603-271-3816 (Fax)
Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired provides those services necessary to help people with visual loss to enter, re-enter, or maintain employment. Most services are provided without charge to the referred individual as the Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Program is supported by State and Federal tax dollars.
Rehabilitation services include:
- Job Placement
- Skills Training
- Low Vision
- Technology and Rehabilitation Engineering
- Orientation and Mobility
- Personal and Household Management
- Counseling and Guidance
- Employer Services
- Consultative Services on ADA, job and task analysis, and reasonable job accommodation
Sight Services for Independent Living
Independent Living Services are available for individuals who are legally blind or visually impaired and who are 55 years of age or older including:
- Peer Counseling
- Rehabilitation Teaching
- Low Vision Services
- Orientation and Mobility
Unabridged
Digital Audio Books for the Blind
Tom Peters, Project Coordinator
6106 South Stillhouse Road
Oak Grove, MO 64075
816-616-6746
www.unabridged.info
E-mail: tpeters@tapinformation.com
State contact information: www.unabridged.info/contact.htm
Unabridged provides narrated downloadable digital audio books for eligible individuals living in California, Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, and Vermont who are blind, visually impaired, or physically challenged.
The goal of Unabridged is to develop and evaluate a multi-state program that provides a downloadable library of narrated digital audio book content and services to blind, low vision, and physically challenged library users in the participating states.
The Unabridged collection contains thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles. Current popular fiction is the strength of the collection. There are books for children, tweens, and teens, as well as old-time radio programs.
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