Indiana
Indiana Deaf Blind Association
AADB is a national consumer organization of, by, and for deaf-blind Americans and their supporters. “Deaf-blind” includes all types and degrees of dual vision and hearing loss. Our membership consists of deaf-blind people from diverse backgrounds, as well as family members, professionals, interpreters, and other interested supporters.AADB is a national consumer organization of, by, and for deaf-blind Americans and their supporters. “Deaf-blind” includes all types and degrees of dual vision and hearing loss. Our membership consists of deaf-blind people from diverse backgrounds, as well as family members, professionals, interpreters, and other interested supporters.
Blind and Visually Impaired Services
Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities
Vision World Wide is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to
improving the lives of the vision impaired through direct interaction and
indirectly through the care giving community. We serve both the totally
blind and those with various degrees and forms of vision loss. We provide
invaluable information, education, guidance, support and consumer
protection, not only to the blind and visually impaired, but to the many
professionals (medical, social and technical) who serve them.
Easter Seals Crossroads Indianapols IndianaEaster Seals Crossroads - Indianapolis, Indiana
Easter Seals Crossroads has been helping individuals with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live better lives for more than 70 years. Whether helping someone improve physical mobility, return to work or simply gain greater independence for everyday living, Easter Seals Crossroads offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals.
Indiana One Stop Career Centers
Each center provides career counseling, resume assistance, direct job placement, classroom and on-the-job training and information about local and national labor markets and unemployment compensation.
Find contact information for your state transition assistance advisor, as well as other family support resources and transition programs.
Provides direct services and collaborate with other organizations and groups to support full community membership for people with disabilities in Bloomington, IN. Services include Durable Medical Equipment loans, home modifications for accessible living and traumatic brain injury support.
Indiana Independent Living Centers ILCS
Contact information for all ILCs in Indiana. ILCs provide people with disabilities advocacy and support services, including assistance with employment, transportation, housing, health care and living skills.
Assistive Technology & Students with Disabilities
Information on how Easter Seals Crossroads helps students with disabilities in Indiana by providing assistive technology training and devices.
Employers & Assistive Technology
Information from Easter Seals Crossroads on how employees with disabilities can use special technology to accommodate their on the job needs.
Provides people with disabilities in Indiana with assistive technology through demonstrations, device loans, computer recycling and alternative financing.
Indiana Unversity Adaptive Technology Center
Provides services for students, faculty and staff with disabilities and specializes in assistive technologies that help with reading, writing, studying and information access.
Bosma Enterprises is dedicated to empowering people who are blind or visually impaired by creating opportunities that lead to the achievement of each individual’s employment, economic, social, and self-determination goals.
Elkhart Public Library Blind and Physically Handicapped
EvansVille Association for the Blind
The Evansville Association for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization committed to assisting disabled or disadvantaged persons, particularly the visually impaired, empowering them through diverse services to live and work in the community. Incorporated in the state of Indiana on April 13th, 1923, the workshop was originally established to manufacture brooms while offering job opportunities to blind men and women.
Family Service of Central Indiana
We offer professional counseling, education, and support that enables individuals to become better parents, spouses, caregivers, and money managers; and allows older and disabled adults to continue to live independently in their own homes.
Center for Exceptional Learners
Exceptional learners come with a wide range of strengths and abilities. The center provides leadership and state-level support for public school gifted and talented (grades K-12) programs and for students with disabilities from ages 3-21. The following disabilities are included: autism spectrum disorder, communication disorder, deaf-blindness, developmental delay, emotional disability, hearing impairment, learning disability, mental disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, traumatic brain injury, and visual impairment. The center ensures that Indiana is in compliance with the federal Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, through monitoring of special education programs, oversight of community and residential programs, provision of mediation and due process rights, and sound fiscal management. The center includes High Ability Education, which administers grants, operates a resource center, and provides workshops and materials suited to the needs of the high ability population.
Indiana State Talking Book Braille Library
The Indiana State Library was established in 1825 to provide library services to Indiana’s state governmental officials and employees. Since that time, the responsibilities of the State Library have expanded to provide services to all citizens of Indiana. Just as the Library of Congress serves as the historical repository for our nation, the State Library is responsible for collecting and preserving all types of information and data about the state of Indiana.
The Leage for the Blind and Disabled
Independent living is the right of people with disabilities
to control and direct their own lives and to participate
actively in society.
North East Indiana Reading Radio Service
Talking Book Public Library Service
Bernell is the largest Vision Therapy Product Company in the world. The original company was founded in 1954 by Dr. Bernard Vodnoy and his wife Nellie. The company was rebuilt when it had financial problems in 1997 by two practicing optometrists, Dr. Craig Andrews (Salem, IL---bernell@charter.net ) and Dr. Charles Shearer(Mishawaka, IN---Bernellconsult@aol.com). They remain actively involved with the company management along with Al Martin (amartin553@aol.com), VP of Operations. Dr. Shearer is VP of Research & Design. Bernell is a Division of Vision Training Products, Inc.
Qualified customers can be exempt from Local Directory Assistance
Charges when dialing 1+ 411, and Local Directory Assistance Call
Completion when dialing 1 + 411. If you are making a Local Directory
Assistance call from another location you may use your Calling Card and
ask the operator to bill your call to your exempt telephone number. By
dialing 1 + 411, you can also reach National Directory Assistance and receive phone listings anywhere in the country -- at just $0.95 per call,
impairments. Your standard telephone bill is available in large print or
Braille. Both bills contain all of the same information as your standard bill.
Lifeline Telephone Assistance is available to help qualified customers with
their monthly phone bill. Lifeline service provides a discount on your monthly
bill. You may be qualified if you receive some form of government
assistance.
American Council of the Blind Indiana
The ACB strives to improve the well-being of all blind and visually impaired
people by: serving as a representative national organization of blind people;
elevating the social, economic and cultural levels of blind people; improving
educational and rehabilitation facilities and opportunities; cooperating with
the public and private institutions and organizations concerned with blind
services; encouraging and assisting all blind persons to develop their
abilities and conducting a public education program to promote greater
understanding of blindness and the capabilities of blind people. ACB is
always striving to increase the independence security, equality of
opportunity, and quality of life for all blind and visually impaired people. The
Indianapolis chapter meets the first Friday of every month at the Bank One
Tower downtown.
Indiana Protection & Advocacy Services
Protects and promotes the rights of individuals with disabilities, through
empowerment and advocacy. Client Assistance Program (CAP) is one of
eight Federally Mandated and Funded Programs for Indiana. Contact CAP if
you are having difficulty seeking or receiving services from VR or other
programs and projects under the Rehabilitation Act (commonly known as
the Rehab Act), such as independent living. CAP is administered by IPAS
and is completely independent of VR and other programs. CAP can help
you to find a solution to a variety of problems. CAP will listen to any
problems or questions or complaint and after getting the facts, help you
work with your VR counselor to try to solve the problem.
ISB provides preschool through high school education for young people of
Indiana who are blind or visually impaired.
Cross Roads Rehabilitation Center
Easter Seals Crossroads provides a variety of programs and services for
individuals with disabilities or special needs. Services may be offered in an
individual's home, in the community or at the Crossroads facility. Adults with
disabilities looking for meaningful employment support can find vocational
assessment, computer training, job placement and supported employment
services through Crossroads. Staff helps individuals identify their
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employment goals and assist in developing a plan to meet these personal
goals. A nationwide leader in delivering comprehensive assistive technology
solutions, the state-of-the-art facility is an excellent resource for individuals
with disabilities who need specialized accommodations for home, work or
school in order to increase their independence. Crossroads low vision inhome
occupational therapy program works with individuals with low vision
diagnoses to increase their independence and safety by teaching them how
to best use their residual vision. A registered occupational therapist provides
training in the use of optical and non-optical aids; self care skills and home
management skills in addition to performing home safety and lighting
evaluation.
Good Will Industries of Central Indiana
Goodwill assists individuals with barriers to employment in achieving fuller
participation in society by expanding their opportunities and enhancing their
employability. In addition to training for jobs, assistance is given to advance
their education.
Hank Hofstetter Opportunity Grant Fund
Indiana School for the Blind
This Grant is available in part or whole to assist any certified legally blind
resident of Indiana. The intent is to partially or fully fund such activities,
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materials, and/or equipment as may enhance the educational or vocational
aims of one who may be unable to get funding any other way. The following
information should be included with the request: name, address, phone,
date of birth, what the need is, a one page statement as to why one should
be considered for the grant, a list of other sources/sources of funding that
have been tried, letter of support (reference) from anyone other than
personal friend or family member, and one self-addressed stamped
envelope. Applications should be submitted at least three months prior to
the need to give the selection committee time to review the request. The
Hank Hofstetter Opportunity Grant Fund is a project of the American Council
of the Blind of Indiana.
A variety of services are offered that help to make television and movies
accessible. Videos containing auditory narration of action or visual elements
are sold at retail cost, and do not require any special equipment, only a
standard TV/VCR.
Indiana Reading and Information Services
Provides a radio receiver for listening to reading of the daily newspaper for
those in a 45-mile radius. Programs are aired 24 hours a day, seven days a
week. In addition to the news, programs include the reading of grocery and
department ads, comics, TV/cable schedule, editorials, columns, etc.
Program schedules are provided on tape and in large print. Many of the
IRIS programs can be accessed via the Dial-up System. This may be more
convenient for those who prefer to select and read articles as they please.
Special Services Indiana State Library
As a NLS cooperating library, Special Services circulates numerous
publications, postage-free by mail. The NLS collection includes best sellers,
novels, classics, magazines, cookbooks, religious materials, etc. All aspects
of the program are free.
Sports Program Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana
Sports programs on a competitive and noncompetitive recreational level are
offered to any person with a physical disability. Sport clinics are offered
year-round, along with education regarding adaptive equipment and
community resources. Participants must have their physician's approval.
VSAI provides associated services to ensure accessible and adaptive arts
services are developed in the community. Examples include audio
description equipment and interpreting fees for performance groups,
technical assistance to partner agencies that need help with accessibility
issues, and support to artists and administrators in developing the skills
necessary to deliver quality adaptive programming. Disabled individuals and
their families can participate in a free ceramics class, and/or can learn to
play various instruments. Transportation can be arranged if necessary.
Visually Impaired Program, PVIA Support Group (Family Services)
Provides a network to allow adults w/ low vision or blindness to socialize
and educate themselves. Provides increased awareness of coping w/
vision loss and services available in the community. Involvement in
community activities and informative speakers are also available. Lunch is
provided. Interested persons should call and reserve a space for the next
meeting. Meetings are held in Indy, Danville, and Lebanon.
Indianapolis Yellow Cab-Taxi Coupon Discount Program
Criteria: Person must be 60 yrs old or older, Reside in Marion County, have
Proof of age and ID.
A sheet of ten tickets, valued at $1.00 per ticket, can be purchased for
$5.00. There is a limit of 30 tickets per month. Discounts are also available
for individuals who use a wheelchair. Please see current list of distribution.
Real Services Transportation Program
Cross Roads Rehabilitation Center
Provides in-home occupational therapy services for the evaluation of
activities of daily living and instruction in appropriate compensatory
techniques; evaluation and training for appropriate career skill and
employment opportunities; evaluation of the individual’s potential to qualify
for bioptic driver training and evaluation of the need for assistive
technology devices and training as needed.
The Adaptive Technology Lab, a division of BVIS, is a state-of-the-art
computer lab that is specifically designed to expose and teach blind and
visually impaired individuals in the use of adaptive equipment. The Lab is
designed for customers of VR, as well as individuals who work with blind or
visually impaired persons, or any individual who has an interest in adaptive
technology. Services the Lab offers include: computer and CCTV
assessments, worksite and home assessments, employer consultation, and
vocational interest assessments.
Charles E. Bosma Rehabilitation Center
As a division of BVIS, Bosma Center enables individuals who are visually
impaired to learn skills that will enhance full participation in work, community
and home. Real life situations are provided through which individuals can
become skillful in activities of daily living, independent travel and new
methods of communication. Skills are taught under the direction of trained
and experienced Rehabilitation Teachers and Orientation & Mobility
Instructors. A trained social worker leads group discussions, and offers
individual counseling to assist with adjustment to the loss of vision.
Transportation is provided in some cases, and housing if needed.
Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Established in 1847, The Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired is accredited by state and national certifying organizations. The school, which has an enrollment of approximately 179 students and receives its funding from the State of Indiana, offers pre-school through high school programs, free of charge on a residential or day school basis, to the young people of Indiana who are blind and visually impaired.
The mission of the Indiana Lions Foundation is to assist Indiana Lions Clubs, Subdistricts of Indiana Lions and state projects of multiple District 25 to carry out their charitable purposes.
Easter Seals Crossroads has been providing assistive technology solutions in Indiana since 1979. In 2007, Easter Seals Crossroads partnered with the State of Indiana, Bureau of Rehabilitative Services to establish the Indiana Assistive Technology Act (INDATA) Project. The INDATA Project is one of 56 similar, federally-funded projects designed to increase access and awareness of assistive technology.
INDATA core services include: Information and referral, funding assistance, public awareness and education, device demonstration, device loan, refurbished computers and ,equipment reutilization.
Indiana on Disability and community
The mission of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community is to work with communities to welcome, value, and support the meaningful participation of people of all ages and abilities through research, education, and service.
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