The Self-help Resource Center for Vision LossNV - Nevada Vision Services
Blind Center of Nevada
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
Blindconnect, Inc.
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
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.
ITNAmerica
90 Bridge Street, Suite 100
Westbrook, ME 04092
207-857-9001
207-857-9199 (Fax)
www.itnamerica.org
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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 first affiliate communities include Charleston, S.C.; Chicago, Ill.; Portland, Maine; Orlando, Fla; Los Angeles, Calif.; Lexington, Ky; San Diego, Calif.; Enfield, Middlesex, Middletown and Fairfield County, Conn.; Sarasota, Fla.; the Quad Cities of Iowa; Cincinnati, Ohio; Las Vegas, NV; Racine, WI; St. Charles, MO.
Lindave Vision
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.
Meier Eye and Vision
Low Vision Services
3201 Lakeside Drive
Reno, Nevada 89509
775-825-0559
www.meiereyeandvision.com
E-mail: info@meiereyeandvision.com
Nevada Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation
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
The Yesnick Vision Center
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
Vision Source Las Vegas
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.
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