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Provides a variety of services to help individuals with blindness or visual impairments through daily living skills classes, traveling and mobility training.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Orientation and Mobility Training
SAIL provides assessment, advice, and training to individuals with disabilities, family members and other interested parties concerning mobility. Services focus on improving an individual's ability to fully access their home and community, and may include adaptive equipment loan and/or acquisition as well as travel training.

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Travel Training for Older Adults / People With Disabilities
Orientation and Mobility Training
SAIL provides assessment, advice, and training to individuals with disabilities, family members and other interested parties concerning mobility. Services focus on improving an individual's ability to fully access their home and community, and may include adaptive equipment loan and/or acquisition as well as travel training.

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Travel Training for Older Adults / People With Disabilities
Orientation and Mobility Training
Dedicated to creating, publishing and distributing tactile illustrations for readers who are blind or visually impaired. Creative Adaptations for Learning (CAL) produces books, flash cards, and other educational materials which use raised lines and textured shapes to help visually impaired people recognize shapes and objects the product is particularly useful for developing reading readiness (braille or print), orientation and mobility and communication skills. Young children, their parents, siblings, teachers and Occupational Therapists, any of whom may be blind or visually impaired, use these materials...as well as children who have dyslexia, autism, cerebral palsy or learning delays. Serves a national geographic area.

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Visual Impairments
Special Education
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille Instruction
Blindness
Low Vision Aids
Braille and Tactile Aids
Braille Materials / Collections
The program is designed to help individuals with low vision carry out day-to-day activities. Independent/Adaptive Living services may include: orientation and mobility services, rehabilitation teaching, low vision services and devices, social casework adjustment counseling, and adaptive equipment.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Orientation and Mobility Training
Provides comprehensive primary medical services, women's health services, podiatry, physical therapy, counseling, speech augmentative communication, and a seating and mobility clinic.

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Podiatry / Foot Care
General Counseling Services
General Medical Care
Physical Therapy
Artificial Speech / Augmentative Communication Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Women's Health Centers
Seating / Positioning Aids
Offers a wide variety of services/programming for individuals of all ages who are visually impaired and/or legally blind. Provides tools, education, and support to empower people who are blind and visually impaired to overcome their challenges, achieve their highest degree of independence, and live more fulfilling lives, professionally and personally. Most services are offered in the home, school, work site, and/or are center-based. Services include: - Low vision evaluation and recommendation for assistive optical devices - Orientation and mobility training for independent travel within one's environment - Rehabilitation teaching, including instruction and adaptive techniques to increase/maintain independence - Individual and group counseling - Vocational training and work readiness programs for preparation to enter or re-enter the work place - Summer recreational and vocational programs for young adults - Work experiences in competitive employment situations - Permanent Placement Services

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Low Vision Aids
Health / Disability Related Counseling
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Orientation and Mobility Training
Job Search / Placement
Work Experience
Provides the following Clinical Services for children, adolescents and adults in person or via telehealth: Counseling, Anger Management, Risk Assessments, Guardianship, Autism Testing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Feeding/Swallowing Therapy, Psychiatric Medication Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling, Wheelchair Seating/Positioning, Orientation and Mobility Training, and Psychological Evaluations. Provides the following Clinical Services: Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Psychology/Evaluation/Diagnosis.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Anger Management
Psychiatric Medication Services
Seating / Positioning Aids
Occupational Therapy
Developmental Assessment
General Counseling Services
Physical Therapy
Speech and Language Pathology
Child Guardianship Assistance
Adult Guardianship Assistance
Psychological Assessment
Pediatric Feeding Disorders Programs
Orientation and Mobility Training
The program is designed to help individuals with low vision carry out day-to-day activities. Independent/Adaptive Living services may include: orientation and mobility services, rehabilitation teaching, low vision services and devices, social casework adjustment counseling, and adaptive equipment.

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Eye Care
Specialized Information and Referral
Low Vision Aids
Vocational Rehabilitation
Eye Screening
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Orientation and Mobility Training
Job Search / Placement
Group Advocacy
Provides comprehensive rehabilitation evaluation and treatment for inpatient and outpatients, consisting of physical, occupational, and speech therapy.

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Occupational Therapy
Orientation and Mobility Training
Speech and Language Pathology
Condition Specific Rehabilitation Services
Physical Therapy
Provides information and training for individuals with developmental disabilities about traveling around their community and the county on the bus systems, and moving about in public.
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
Works with adults to achieve their vocational goals, and provides counseling in social adjustment and training in life skills, communication, and mobility.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Orientation and Mobility Training
Offers rehabilitation and education services to legally blind adults, children and seniors residing in Dutchess county. Programs and services include orientation and mobility, vision rehabilitation therapy, computer and assistive technologies instruction, case management, social case work, academic instruction and referrals for low vision services.

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Orientation and Mobility Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment
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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Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment Rental
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Assistive Technology Training
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille Instruction
Assistive Technology Information
Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Rights Groups
Trains and provides guide dogs to people who are blind or visually impaired. Each person must complete a 25 day in-residence training program at the Foundation. Each graduate receives a dog, its equipment, a comprehensive training program and after-care services without charge.

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Orientation and Mobility Training
Service Animals
Mobility Aids
Rehabilitation / Habilitation Services
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Volunteer Opportunities
Provides the rehabilitation and support for individual recovering from illness, injury or elective surgery. Services include physical and occupational therapy, disease/disability specific rehabilitation and sports-related medical care.

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Therapeutic Exercise
Physical Therapy
Inpatient Rehabilitation
Condition Specific Rehabilitation Services
Sports Medicine
Orientation and Mobility Training
Occupational Therapy
Provides inpatient rehabilitation care for a variety of issues related to mobility, self-care, communication, swallowing, memory, and cognitive issues due to a stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, amputation, and/or other orthopedic and neuromuscular conditions.

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Amputee Rehabilitation
Prosthetic Devices
Physical Therapy
Recreational Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Orientation and Mobility Training
Music Therapy
Inpatient Rehabilitation
Spinal Cord Rehabilitation

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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Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Rights Groups
Braille and Tactile Aids
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Assistive Technology Training
Blind Mobility Aids
Assistive Technology Equipment Rental
Assistive Technology Information
Braille Instruction
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Orientation and Mobility Training
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Services for persons of all ages who are blind or visually impaired. Rehabilitation, counseling, orientation, mobility instruction and independent living skills education are available. Friendly visiting and support groups are also offered.

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Health / Disability Related Support Groups
Health / Disability Related Counseling
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Friendly Visiting
Orientation and Mobility Training
Provides rehabilitation teaching to the blind and visually impaired including braille, keyboarding, travel training, independent living skills, and low-vision services. Also offers social casework and counseling services

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Orientation and Mobility Training
Rehabilitation / Habilitation Services
Braille Instruction
Provides a year round overnight recreation, social service and rehabilitation program for blind and visually impaired teens (18+), adults, and senior citizens and families with one or more members of any age who are visually impaired. Offers educational programs, Employment and Technology Institute, Consumer Conference, sports, arts and entertainment. Call for an application.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Visual Impairments
Recreational Therapy
Orientation and Mobility Training
Workshops / Symposiums
Therapeutic Camps
Blindness
Provides education, rehabilitation teaching, and orientation and mobility training for the blind.

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Orientation and Mobility Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Teaches blind and visually impaired individuals techniques for determining locations and traveling safely in homes, schools, workplaces, and communities. Area of instruction include indoor navigation, community travel, public transportation, street crossings, sighted guide techniques, vision and sensory training, use of a cane and other mobility tools, route planning, and spatial and environmental concept and development.