American Foundation for the Blind
2 Penn Plaza, Suite 1102
New York, NY 10121
800-232-5463 (800-AFB-LINE)
212-502-7600
888-545-8331 (Fax)
E-mail: afbinfo@afb.net

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

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

Find Vision Rehabilitation Services and Support Groups

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) provides a 'Where Can I Find…' 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
E-mail contacts: www.cabellwayne.org/contact_cwab.htm

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.

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.

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

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.

750 Main Street
Wheeling, WV 26003
304-232-4810
www.seeinghandassociation.com

The Seeing Hand Association, Inc. began services in 1936 and was incorporated in 1946 in Wheeling, WV. It serves citizens in Ohio and West Virginia.

The Seeing Hand offers a number of specialized services for blind and visually impaired individuals, including community education, advocacy, adaptive technology skills training, orientation and mobility training, job development, and a low vision clinic.

These services assist in meeting the identified needs of the individual while maintaining our core values of accountability, honesty, integrity, trust, teamwork, independence, personal and professional growth, dignity and self-esteem.

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

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

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

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 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.