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Support Groups and Events | Eyes Like Mine
Inspire advocacy and break down societal barriers to ensure individuals experiencing vision loss can live, learn, and work with equal opportunity.
Inspire advocacy and break down societal barriers to ensure individuals experiencing vision loss can live, learn, and work with equal opportunity.
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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Adult Rehabilitation Program | Vision Loss Alliance of New Jersey
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.
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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Visual Impairments
Computer Access Aids
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Lighthouse Guild | Lighthouse Guild
Provides a long-standing heritage of addressing the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired. This includes those with multiple disabilities or chronic medical conditions.
Provides a long-standing heritage of addressing the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired. This includes those with multiple disabilities or chronic medical conditions.
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Visual Impairments
Disease/Disability Information
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Tele-Support Network for Parents | Lighthouse Guild
Provides a phone-based support group system that offers parents of children diagnosed with an eye condition the opportunity to share their experiences, resources, and feelings to like-minded individuals. Current support groups include: Cortical visual impairment, Retinopathy of prematurity, Leber congenital amaurosis, Autism and blindness.
Provides a phone-based support group system that offers parents of children diagnosed with an eye condition the opportunity to share their experiences, resources, and feelings to like-minded individuals. Current support groups include: Cortical visual impairment, Retinopathy of prematurity, Leber congenital amaurosis, Autism and blindness.
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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments
Parent Support Groups
Guide Dog Training Program | Guide Dog Foundation For The Blind
Provides a 2-week training program that matches individuals who are visually impaired with trained guide dogs. Also provides transportation.
Provides a 2-week training program that matches individuals who are visually impaired with trained guide dogs. Also provides transportation.
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Dog Guides
Visual Impairments
Scholarships | Lighthouse Guild
Provides legally blind high school students in the United States the opportunity to earn a scholarship, based upon strong academic accomplishments and merit. A single scholarship is also awarded to a current or prospective graduate student who is legally blind.
Provides legally blind high school students in the United States the opportunity to earn a scholarship, based upon strong academic accomplishments and merit. A single scholarship is also awarded to a current or prospective graduate student who is legally blind.
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Visual Impairments
Scholarships
Information and Referral | Foundation Fighting Blindness
Provides information and referral on diseases, helps callers find support groups, and communicates research/information to individuals, families and physicians.
Provides information and referral on diseases, helps callers find support groups, and communicates research/information to individuals, families and physicians.
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Specialized Information and Referral
Visual Impairments
Disease/Disability Information
Support Group Clearinghouses
Camp Marcella | New Jersey Camp for Blind Children
Operates a summer camp that offers educational and recreational programs for blind and visually impaired youth, aged 5 through 16. Overnight sessions include lodging in cabins, lake and swimming pool facilities, boating, hiking, music, sports, crafts, nature, and computer-based learning.
Operates a summer camp that offers educational and recreational programs for blind and visually impaired youth, aged 5 through 16. Overnight sessions include lodging in cabins, lake and swimming pool facilities, boating, hiking, music, sports, crafts, nature, and computer-based learning.
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Summer Camps
Visual Impairments
Supportive Services for the Blind | John D Young Memorial Lions Center for the Blind
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.
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.
What's Here
Computer Access Aids
Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Braille Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
