WV - West Virginia Vision Services

American Foundation for the Blind [2]
11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300
New York, NY 10001
800-232-5463 (800-AFB-LINE)
212-502-7600
212-502-7777 (Fax)
E-mail: afbinfo@afb.net [3]

AFB Center on Vision Loss [4]
11030 Ables Lane
Dallas, TX 75229
214-352-7222
E-mail: dallas@afb.net [5]

AFB TECH [6]
949 3rd Avenue, Suite 200
Huntington, WV 25701
304-523-8651
E-mail: AFBTECH@afb.net [7]

Find Vision Rehabilitation Services and Support Groups

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) provides a 'Where Can I Find…' [8] database of services in the United States and Canada. The database includes extensive resources, including computer training, rehabilitation services, volunteer services, employment and job training, support groups, and many other helpful areas.

In addition, the American Foundation for the Blind 

• Provides services to, and acts as an information clearinghouse for, people who are blind or visually impaired and their families, professionals, organizations, schools, and corporations
• Stimulates research and mounts program initiatives to improve services to blind or visually impaired people
• Publishes a wide variety of professional, reference, and consumer books and videos.

38 Washington Avenue
Huntington, WV 25701
304-522-6991
www.cabellwayne.org [15]
E-mail contacts: www.cabellwayne.org/contact_cwab.htm [16]

Programs and services include:

• Vision Rehabilitation Therapy
• Support Groups
• Transportation
• Recreation
• In-Home Services
• Orientation and Mobility
• Adaptive Technology
• Computer Instruction
• Scholarship Program
• Eyeglass Program
• Volunteering
• Family and Children's Recreation Programs

A New Program:

Help is available for residents of Putnam and Lincoln Counties who don't have insurance coverage for vision care. "Reaching Out to Our Neighbors" is a new resource for obtaining an eye exam, eyeglasses, and low vision aids (such as magnifiers, large-print items, "talking" devices) for people with low vision.

For more information, call the Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind and ask for extension 13 or the outreach project. The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation has made this project possible.

5210 MacCorkle Avenue SW
South Charleston, WV 25309-1010
304-768-8876
www.icbminc.org [19]

International Christian Braille Mission, Inc. (ICBM) produces and distributes New Testament Christian literature in formats readable by blind and visually impaired individuals. ICBM currently distributes material for evangelism and edification in approximately 20 countries worldwide, including England, Malawi, Thailand, India, Australia, Bangladesh, Cuba, and the United States.

P.O. Box 50890, State Capitol
Charleston, WV 25305-0890
800-642-8207 (Toll free)
304-766-4600
304-766-4690 (Fax)
www.wvdrs.org [25]

Services for People Who are Blind and Visually Impaired
[26]800-642-8207 (Toll free)
Office contacts: www.wvdrs.org/WVDRS_Offices.cfm [27]

Programs and services include:

• Field Services: Individuals who want to work in an integrated job setting will meet with a rehabilitation counselor who has been specifically trained to provide services to meet their needs.
• Life Skills: The Life Skills Unit for the Blind provides individualized training in a variety of pre-vocational and vocational areas. Training includes orientation and mobility, adaptive communication, domestic arts, adaptive activities of daily living, computer training with access technology, and braille.
• Independent Living Services for Older Individuals: VISIONS (Visually Impaired Seniors In-home, Outreach, and Networking Services) provides comprehensive in-home independent living services to individuals age 55 and older who have significant vision loss.

Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
Department of Ophthalmology
P.O. Box 9100
Morgantown, WV 26506-9100
304-598-6925
304-598-4820 (Appointments)
304-598-6928 (Fax)
www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/eye [30]

Offers a full range of eye care services, including comprehensive eye exams, low vision services for adaptive devices, laser vision correction, and subspecialty medical and surgical treatment.

The Children’s Vision Rehabilitation Project [31] provides comprehensive vision rehabilitation services to blind and visually impaired school-aged children throughout the state of West Virginia, regardless of ability to pay. The goal of the project is to provide children with tools to become independent and employable by optimizing visual function both at home and school.