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Extreme Heat Cooling Centers
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Public Access Computers / Tools
Story Hour
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Home Library Services
Children's Reading Clubs
Computer and Related Technology Classes
Resume Preparation Assistance
Writing Instruction
* Offers community services for the visually and hearing impaired. Guide dogs. Sight preservation and restoration. Eye exams, glasses for pre-schoolers in the town. Referrals for hearing aids.* Accepts food donations for Irondequoit cupboard.* Collects used glasses for use in deprived countries. * Offers scholarships for high school seniors.

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Scholarships
Food Donation Programs
Hearing Screening
Glasses Donation Programs
Dog Guides
Eye Screening
Hearing Augmentation Aids
Visual/Reading Aids

Administers programs and services to enhance employability, maximize independence, and assist in the development of the capacities and strengths of people who are legally blind. Programs include:

Equipment Loan Fund, which allows individuals to borrow up to $4,000 to purchase adaptive equipment.

Children's services for children who are legally blind, including early intervention rehabilitation, working with and empowering parents, arranging services to supplement educational activities, and ensuring a smooth transition to adult services.

Vocational rehabilitation programs for adults and youth ages 14 to 21 years, which provide a number of services, including assessment, information and referral, casework services, job coaching, orientation and mobility training, independent living skills training, and assistive technology assistance.

Independent living services for individuals who are not eligible for vocational rehabilitation services and who are not receiving services through another NYSCB Program. These services are provided based on individual need and may include orientation and mobility services, rehabilitation teaching, low vision services and devices, social casework, and adaptive equipment.

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Blind Mobility Aids
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Information
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille and Tactile Aids
Assistive Technology Equipment Rental
Disability Rights Groups
Braille Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Assistive Technology Training
Provides optometry services to active duty military personnel including eye examinations, military spectacles, vision readiness screening, and refractive surgery.

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Eye Surgery
Glasses/Contact Lenses
Eye Examinations
Optometry
Vision Screening
* Offers emergency financial assistance for utilities, rent, or security deposit payment.* Provides financial assistance for other needs such as prescriptions, glasses, formula, transportation cost, or some OTC products, based on need and funds available.

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Prescription Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Visual/Reading Aids
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
Provides general eye examinations, eye glass services, and identification of health problems affecting the eye, such as diabetes.

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Optometry
Glasses/Contact Lenses
Glaucoma Treatment
Eye Examinations
Skills instruction for infants, pre-schoolers and school-age children to age 14 using teaching tools such as: speech assisted learning to teach pre-Braille skills storybooks with large-print, Braille and tactile illustrations toys using audio, motion and visual stimulation to teach pre-mobility skills

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Braille and Tactile Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
* Offers vision rehabilitation services for individuals with vision that includes: Low Vision Evaluations - specialized lenses, visual aids, magnifiers. InSight Shop - full service non-optical store, offering adaptive devices, visual aids, talking watches & clocks, cooking aids, large print items, frames, magnifiers, lighting, and adapted toys for sale. Vision Rehabilitation/adaptive skills training for activities of daily living. Orientation and mobility travel training. Social work/case management services. Support groups available - 3rd TU of month 10:00AM-12:00PM. Call for accessibility needs. * Offers vocational/employment services that include: assessment, placement, job supports and training, follow-up. * Offers Adaptive Technology services - to support vocational/educational goals - adaptations for computers, specialized software and hardware by referral of a New York State Commission for the Blind vocational rehabilitation counselor.* Provides children's services that include: Monthly recreation programs for children who are legally blind and their families. Parent support/education group/Family Resource Center.* Provides community education and outreach services.

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Eye Care
Day Rehabilitation
Social Clubs/Events
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment
Career Counseling
Eye Screening
Computer Donation Programs
Job Finding Assistance
Public Awareness/Education
Visual/Reading Aids
Academic Counseling
Special Libraries
Long Term Case/Care Management
Nutrition Education
Vocational Rehabilitation
Orientation and Mobility Training
Vocational Education
Screen pre-school children for vision problems.Budget for 15-20 children/year. Current public assistance recipients must first contact his/her case worker. Lions' program most often provides glasses to senior citizens or children of low-income working parents who do not have Medicaid or vision insurance.
Provides guidance in adjusting to vision disability to children and families. Uses techniques, tools, games, and methods to enhance personal, social, and educational development.

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Health/Disability Related Counseling
Low Vision Aids
Disability Associations
Eye Care

Provides services for Veterans who need vision rehabilitation, including assistive aids, sunglasses to help control glare, cooking and home management training, and evaluation for magnifiers, reading glasses, and telescopes.

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Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Low Vision Aids
Vision Screening
Provides evaluations and follow-ups for individuals who are legally blind. Staffed with a doctor of Optometry who is certified as a low-vision specialist. Magnifiers, telescopes, sunglasses, or reading glasses are usually dispensed to the consumer at the time of the evaluation.

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Glasses/Contact Lenses
Eye Examinations
Low Vision Aids
Provides a variety of special aids on display for people with physical, visual, and hearing impairments.

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Visual / Reading Aids
Assistive Technology Equipment
Public Libraries
Library Services
Provides individuals with visual problems, information on available services, vision aids, appliances and education to help them maintain there independence.

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Orientation and Mobility Training
Low Vision Aids
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Visual Impairments
Mobility Aids
Disease / Disability Information
Offers rehabilitation services to the blind and visually impaired where case workers go out to individuals homes for assessment and in home rehabilitation related to vision loss, providing cane travel, homemaker training, adaptive reading devices (low vision), talking watches and clocks, and general training in blindness rehabilitation.

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Mobility Aids
Braille Instruction
Low Vision Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Offers independent and working skills training in a variety of communications, household, personal, technology and related areas. Orientation and mobility training may include how to move about in a specific environment such as a home, school or work place. It usually involves teaching proper techniques for safe and effective travel with a long (white) cane. It also includes training on how to be aware of clues from the environment and knowing your location. Provides an open resource room for individuals to test and purchase accessible computer technology as well as additional low vision and mobility aids. Also offers Braille instruction, early intervention services for children and specialty services for older individuals.

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Mobility Aids
Computer Access Aids
Special Needs Job Development
Descriptive Video Services
Voice / Audio Output Aids
Braille Instruction
Low Vision Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille and Tactile Aids
Offers rehabilitation services to the blind and visually impaired where case workers go out to individuals homes for assessment and in home rehabilitation related to vision loss, providing cane travel, homemaker training, adaptive reading devices (low vision), talking watches and clocks, and general training in blindness rehabilitation.

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Mobility Aids
Braille Instruction
Low Vision Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Offers independent and working skills training in a variety of communications, household, personal, technology and related areas. Orientation and mobility training may include how to move about in a specific environment such as a home, school or work place. It usually involves teaching proper techniques for safe and effective travel with a long (white) cane. It also includes training on how to be aware of clues from the environment and knowing your location. Provides an open resource room for individuals to test and purchase accessible computer technology as well as additional low vision and mobility aids. Also offers Braille instruction, early intervention services for children and specialty services for older individuals.

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Mobility Aids
Computer Access Aids
Special Needs Job Development
Descriptive Video Services
Voice / Audio Output Aids
Braille Instruction
Low Vision Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille and Tactile Aids
* Provides evaluations and follow-ups for individuals who have some remaining usable vision. Staffed with a doctor of Optometry who is certified as a low-vision specialist. Magnifiers, telescopes, sunglasses, or reading glasses are usually dispensed to the consumer at the time of the evaluation.

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Eye Examinations
Visual/Reading Aids
Offers Braille, large print books, described videocassettes, decoders, low-vision aids, and other materials for loan. Also has a reading machine for the blind and adaptive computer equipment for in-library use. Provides demonstrations and training for all special technologies.

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Low Vision Aids
Reading Services for People With Disabilities
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Descriptive Video Services
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Voice/Audio Output Aids
Large Print Materials/Collections
Assistive Listening Devices
Closed Caption Decoders
Computer Access Aids
Assistive Technology Training
Braille Materials/Collections
Braille and Tactile Aids
* Offers emergency financial assistance for utilities, rent, or security deposit payment.* Provides financial assistance for other needs such as prescriptions, glasses, formula, transportation cost, or some OTC products, based on need and funds available.

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Prescription Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Visual/Reading Aids
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
The Ithaca Lions Club and Ithaca Free Clinic have a partnership operate an optometry and optician program housed at the Ithaca Free Clinic located at 521 W. Seneca St. in Ithaca. The Ithaca Lions Eye Clinic will offer free eye care services to Ithaca and the greater Ithaca community. The clinic will operate one day each month, providing free eye care services to uninsured and underinsured community members. For uninsured and underinsured community members interested in scheduling a free eye care appointment, call the Ithaca Free Clinic at 607-330-1254 between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. Eye exams require an appointment, and exams will be scheduled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Being a resident of Tompkins County is not required to use the free eye care services offered by the Ithaca Lions Eye Clinic.
Provides services for veterans with low vision.

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Veterans Affairs Medical Centers
Vision Screening
Volunteer Opportunities
Veterans
Ophthalmology
Eye Screening
Veteran Outpatient Clinics
Optometry
Visual Impairments
Eye Care
Low Vision Aids
Offers Vision Services, including Assistive Technology and Orientation and Mobility Assessment and Training, for students attending district programs. Vision Assistive Technology Evaluations identify assistive technology devices and services that will help the student access the general curriculum and achieve academic success. Some of the technologies include screen reading software, speech output, scan-and-read systems, computer screen magnification, electronic note takers, and magnifying Closed-Circuit Televisions (CCTVs). Orientation and Mobility (O&M) is an important and integral part of the curriculum in the comprehensive delivery of services to children with visual impairments. Orientation is the process of using sensory information to establish and maintain one's position in the environment; mobility is the process of moving safely, efficiently, and gracefully within one's environment. The ultimate goal of O&M instruction is for visually impaired persons to be able to travel in any environment as independently as possible. To reach this goal, O&M instruction must begin at the earliest possible age. Call for more detailed information.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Mobility Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Assistive Technology Training
Special Education Assessment
Special Education
Educational Support Services
Visual / Reading Aids
Dedicated to preserving vision and to providing crucially needed vision health care services to help people of all ages overcome the challenges of vision loss, through clinical services, education, research, and advocacy enabling people with low vision and blindness enjoy safe, independent and productive lives. Call or visit website for more information.

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Case / Care Management
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disease / Disability Information
Visual / Reading Aids
Disability Associations