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Assists people who have become visually impaired to regain their self-esteem and self-reliance. Provides adaptive strategies to cope with vision loss including an introduction in orientation and mobility, activities of daily living, low tech communications and introduction to technology with an iPhone/iPad.

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Computer Access Aids
Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Provides a wide range of programs for individuals with a disability. Some of the programs include but not limited to, independent living skills, information and referral, individual/system advocacy, peer support, health and wellness, and transition services.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Specialized Information and Referral
Individual Advocacy
Occupation Specific Job Training
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Computer Access Aids
Self Advocacy Support
Provides demonstrates assistive communication devices for people with hearing loss at two centers in New Jersey. Displays include items from the Equipment Distribution Program and other practical devices for home and office, providing hands-on demonstrations for informed decision-making.

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Assistive Listening Devices
Computer Access Aids
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Provides assistance and accessibility services to individuals with disabilities. Services include: comprehensive evaluations, training, support, and mobile visits.

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Home Modification Consultation
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunication Relay Services
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Listening Devices
Computer Access Aids
Assists individuals with disabilities in discovering suitable assistive technology devices to enhance daily life functions. Staff evaluates and matches participants with adaptive equipment tailored to their needs, providing ongoing training. Available assistive technologies include augmentative communication devices, adaptive toys, computer equipment, wheeled mobility, seating and position aids, and electronic aids.

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Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Computer Access Aids
Wheelchairs/Wheeled Mobility
Assistive Listening Devices
Offers supportive services, including information and referral for assistive technology devices and services. This includes advocacy services, and legal representation.

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Legal Representation
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Assistive Listening Devices
General Medical Equipment/Supplies Provision
Computer Access Aids
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Hearing Aids
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Occasional Medical Equipment/Supplies
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Offers augmentative communication evaluations, reviewing students' educational history from parents, teachers, therapists, and school district personnel. These evaluations may be recommended or requested by educational administrators, child study team personnel, case managers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, or parents of students with disabilities.

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Computer Access Aids
Special Education Assessment
Student Disability Services
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Assistive Listening Devices
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Provides a directory of New Jersey public libraries, including county and municipal libraries, which offer a variety of services to help the public access free information and resources. Common services include but are not limited to: book and media loans, free computer access, free WiFi access, special events for children, continuing education classes for adults, large print and disabled collections.

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Home Library Services
Braille Materials/Collections
Large Print Materials/Collections
Public Libraries
Computer Access Aids
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Provides assistive technology and resources for individuals with difficulty using, reading, seeing, or hearing a computer; children struggling with learning in school; or individuals with learning or developmental disabilities. Services include: adult education classes, assistive technology information, and computer classes.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Computer Access Aids
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Offers an assistive technology evaluation to children with disabilities. An assistive technology evaluation includes: A review of the student's educational history as provided by parents, teachers, therapists, and school district personnelAn individualized evaluation by an educator/assistive technology specialist.A written report with recommendations for assistive technology implementation. The report provides specific product and feature information in order to assist the school district, agency, or parent in implementing recommendations expeditiously.

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Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Computer Access Aids
Student Disability Services
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Assistive Listening Devices
Provides assistance and accessibility services to individuals with disabilities. Services include: comprehensive evaluations, training, support, and mobile visits.

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Telecommunication Relay Services
Computer Access Aids
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Home Modification Consultation
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Assistive Listening Devices
Offers clients with exposure to adaptive software that will enable them to operate many of the more popular software programs available, such as MS Windows and Internet Explorer. Through training in the use of adaptive software, clients will gain skills that will help them become marketable in the job market.
Provides a variety of supportive services for blind and visually impaired individuals. Services include: Information and referral, Braille instruction, Peer support group, Advocacy, JAWS and Zoom Text computer classes, Stand Along Reading Apparatus (SARA) classes, White cane instruction assistance, Access to the latest aids and appliances.

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Computer Access Aids
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Braille Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Offering on-site sensitivity training, the New Jersey Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing covers various topics including providing equal communication access for deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

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Hearing Aids
Disease/Disability Information
Computer Access Aids
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Sign Language Instruction
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Telecommunication Relay Services
Sign Language Interpretation
Assistive Listening Devices
Empowers blind or visually impaired residents aged 55 and above to maintain independence through services such as outreach, case management, information, and referral. Provides vision screening, examinations by an ophthalmologist, orientation on vision aids and devices, distribution of aids, mobility training, home instruction in personal care, and activities of daily living.

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Eye Surgery
Braille and Tactile Aids
Case/Care Management
Computer Access Aids
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Eye Examinations
Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Friendly Visiting
Provides assistive technology and resources for individuals with difficulty using, reading, seeing, or hearing a computer; children struggling with learning in school; or individuals with learning or developmental disabilities. Services include: adult education classes, assistive technology information, and computer classes.

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Computer Literacy Training Programs
Computer Access Aids
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
Provides intensive, 12-month educational services and supports to children and young adults, ages 3 through 21, who exhibit severe cognitive, physical, behavioral, or emotional disabilities; pregnant or parenting teenagers; and those at risk of school failure. the following services are managing two satellite hospitals, operating sixteen regional schools, transitional Educational Centers (TEC), an alternative, year-round educational program designed for at-risk high school students. Encourages diploma completion at their local high school or school district.Implementing Project TEACH (Teen Education and Child Health) an alternative, year-round educational program for pregnant or parenting teens at risk of school failure. Provides child care services while students work towards earning a diploma. Establishing the Technology for Life and Learning Center (TLLC): providing assistive technology to students with disabilities within the Office of Education's program.

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School Based Teen Parent/Pregnant Teen Programs
Computer Access Aids
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Assistive Listening Devices
Student Disability Services
Assists visually impaired individuals to enhance their independence and community integration. Services include arts/crafts, Braille instruction, counseling, daily living skills, mobility training, JAWS computer training, nutrition, recreation, and social outreach.

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Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Computer Access Aids
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Braille and Tactile Aids
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Adult Day Program Centers
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Braille Materials/Collections