Blindness and low vision skills training

Find out how you can gain new skills of blindness and continue to succeed.

How we can help

We provide training to help you live and work with blindness or low vision so you can feel confident and independently navigate your home, workplace and community.

Daily living skills training

Vision shouldn’t keep you from doing the things you want. We can teach you different ways to accomplish tasks everywhere you want to be

Orientation and mobility skills training

We help you learn to get around your home, workplace, and community safely and independently. Our orientation and mobility instructors can teach you how to:

  • Use transit to commute to and from school or your workplace
  • Use mobility aids such as a long white cane to travel independently

Assistive technology training

We help you stay connected at work by teaching you how to use assistive technology to continue using phones and computers to complete class or work projects. We teach you how to use tools that can help with your day-to-day activities. Visit our assistive technologies page to learn more.

Help with emotionally adjusting to vision changes

You may feel sad, fearful, or angry as you lose vision. We allow you to talk through these feelings to adjust to the changes in your vision. Please note that this is not crisis counseling or mental health therapy.

Information and referrals for other resources

We share information and provide referrals to resources, programs, and benefits for people with visual disability. A great place to start is Finding Services: A Beginner's Guide to Visual Impairment provided by the National Research & Training Center (NRTC) on Blindness & Low Vision.

 

Get help with learning blindness or low vision skills

We offer free help so you can adapt to visual disability in your home, school or workplace. To get started, contact us using one of the methods below: