AVAILABLE_COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR LOW VISION PATIENTS

1. • Mr. Mahendra Singh
• PhD (Scholar)
M.Optom, FLVPEI
(Hyd)
• Assistant Professor and
consultant Optometrist.
• CL Gupta Eye
Institute. UP India
AVAILABLE COMMUNITY SERVICES

2. AVAILABLE COMMUNITY
SERVICES
1. Special sessions on presbyopia and myopia
2. Psychophysical and electrophysiological
analysis of eye disorders (glaucoma, macular
degeneration, diabetic retinopathy)
3. Visual development and aging (amblyopia)
4. Low vision research
5. Advances in imaging techniques including
scanning laser
ophthalmoscopy,MRI,PET,scaning,

3. 6.Specialized ophthalmic photography
7. Optical corrections of refractive errors
8. Surgical correction and intraocular lens design
9. Retinal implants/transplants

4. Services available
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Blindness & visual services(vocational
rehabilitation)
• Child guidance center
• Community health nursing services
• Department of social services
• Educational services center
• Family outreach center

5. Services available
• Family services center
• Handicapped parking information
• Head injury foundation
• Health deapartmant
• Home health care institute
• World labory of congress(books & tapes)
• Meals on wheels
• World association for low vision patient

6. Services available
• National association for patients of the visually
impaired
• National association for patients of visually
handicapped
• Psychiatric hospitals
• Senior health visual program
• Senior health program
• Sheltering Arms
• Taping for the blinds
• Transportation services

7. Services available in INDIA
• L.V.PRASAD –FREE services & devices from non-
payable branch to poor patients.
• BLIND MANS ASSOCIATION-Rehabilitation of
patients of low vision
• RAJA RATHODE FOUNDATION-Free rehabilitation
for physically & visually handicapped
• ROATORY club found for visually impaired
• etc

8. Why Our Services Are
Needed
• o The first health-care and social-workers that a newly
blind person may come in contact with are often not
specifically trained for vision loss.
• o Vision-care professionals need to keep up-to-date on
the latest technology, services, and programs.
• o Rehabilitation counselors at government agencies
are often generalists and not specifically trained in serving
those with low vision.
• o Many misconceptions, and even prejudices, still exist
concerning the capabilities of those who are blind or
visually impaired.
• o Desperation is common to those who suffer vision
loss, which makes them easy prey to unscrupulous
persons.

9. What goal should one optometrist
bear
• Our goal is to educate all the above
people and facilitate communication
among them.
• Awareness among people
• Classify blind & low vision according to
different categories.
• Treat them accordingly with underline
cause

10. LOW VISION CENTER
• The Low Vision Center is a nonprofit organization that helps
people with low vision maintain their independence. Located in
Bethesda, Maryland, we offer information services as well as an
in-house demonstration area full of a variety of low vision aids
and ideas TO LOW VISION PATIENTS.
The Low Vision Center offers its resources without charge,
relying entirely upon personal contributions to fund its varied
services. The LVC is also a member of United Way and
participates in the United Way and Combined Federal
Campaigns

11. LOW VISION CENTER
• THIS CENTER HELPS IN GIVING
FOLLOWING HELP
• OPTICALAIDS
• NON-OPTICALAIDS
• CCTV
• COMPTURE AIDS

12. OPTICAL AIDS
• There is a wide variety of devices that can
help people with low vision see better.
There are hundreds of different kinds of
magnifiers in many different strengths.
Some are used to see things that are near,
like a newspaper, and others are used for
seeing distant objects, like street signs.

13. OPTICAL AIDS
• Once someone has the correct magnifier for
a specific task, practice is essential.
Learning to use a magnifier to read, attend
plays, buy groceries, or engage in any other
activity takes practice. It can sometimes be
a bit of a struggle to adjust to using a
magnifier, but it is worth the effort. Being
comfortable and skilled in using a magnifier
can greatly improve its effectiveness

14. TEACHING TO USE OPTICAL
AIDS
• THIS IS NORMAILY DONE BY
CENTERS WHICH PROVIDE THID
• INSTRUCTIONS ARE GIVEN
• ACCORDING TO NEED THIS AIDS ARE
GIVEN

15. LIVING WITH LOW VISION
• Many visually impaired people experience
difficulty with regular activities such as
cooking, shopping, managing finances,
watching television, reading, and taking care of
their personal needs. Many people with low
vision have concerns about finding and keeping
a job, dealing with friends and family members,
getting around, and participating in recreational
and social activities.

16. LIVING WITH LOW VISION
• But there are hundreds of low vision aids and scores of
proven strategies for coping with low vision. These
aids and strategies can help visually impaired people
maximize their remaining vision and maintain their
independence.
• But knowledge is just the first part. Practice is the
important next step. Just as an amputee must learn to
walk with his new prosthesis, a person with low vision
must practice using adaptive aids until they become
second nature.

17. SERVICES GIVEN TO
PATIENT WITH LOW VISION
• Guidance and Counseling
•
• Information and Referral
• Physical Restoration Assistance (Eye
Surgery, Prosthetics, Eyeglasses)

18. • Personal Adjustment Training in Alternative
Techniques of Blindness (Braille, Mobility
Using Long White Cane, Home
Management Skills, etc.) Available Through
Residential Programs and/or Itinerant
Service Providers.
• Academic, Vocational and On-the-Job
Training
• Work Adjustment Training / Job Coaching
• Selective Placement

19. • Assistive Technology (Low Vision Aids,
CCTV's, Text Scanners and Speech Output
for Computer, Screen Enlargement
Software, Digital Voice Notetakers, Braille
Printers, etc.)
• Transportation Assistance
• Training and Assistance in the SELF
PROTECTION

20. • THIS GROUP WORKS WORLD WIDE
• HAS ITS OWN POLICES
• MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES
• MOST OF FOUNDERS LOW VISION
PATENTS

21. Agency Profile
• Works with people of all ages, and
specializes in working with people with age-
related vision loss
• Focuses on the needs, goals and
capabilities of each individual; some folks
tap into all services, others use only one or
two

22. AGENCY PROFILE
• Service area: for people living in
,EUROPE and american
counties,AFRICA & ALLMOST ASIA
many CSBPS Programs & Services are
provided without charge in homes,
neighborhoods, and workplaces; other
services are also available to those
who can visit the agency or reach us
by phone, mail or e-mail

23. AGENCY PROFILE
• Free in-home services include
counseling; instruction in safe and
independent travel skills; instruction in
home and personal management skills
for independent living; and personal
service volunteers

24. AGENCY PROFILE
• Services provided at the agency in
Seattle include fee-based low vision
clinic and rehabilitation service; an
assistive technology center; specialty
products and adaptive aids sales, and
educational services, publications, and
information and referral; no one is
turned away due to inability to pay

25. Non-discrimination policy
• CSBPS respects each individual and does
not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
national origin, gender, sexual orientation,
age, religion, creed, marital status, veteran
status, disability, or use of service dogs for
disabilities, or on any other basis protected by
local, state or federal law. CSBPS abides by
this policy in every aspect of its programs,
practices, policies and activities.

26. ORIENTATION & MOBILITY
PROGRAM
• Mobility: safe travel skills in the home and
in the community. Instruction in the use of
white cane, possible low vision devices,
electronic travel aides and more effective
use of residual vision.
• Eligibility: Severe visual impairment to
total blindness.

27. REHABILITATION
TEACHING SERVICES
• Teaching of skills to become independent in
the home and community. Includes
activities of daily living, typing, braille,
home management, communication skills,
etc.
• Eligibility: Severe visual impairment to
total blindness.

28. SOCIAL SERVIES
PROGRAM
• Social services: preschool and school age
services for blind/visually impaired children
and their parents. Counseling, chore
services, training to perform activities of
daily living for adults.
• Eligibility: Severe visual impairment to
total blindness.

29. VOCATIONAL
REHABILITATION
• Vocational rehabilitation: counseling,
adjustment to blindness services, physical
restoration, low vision services, vocational
training, job placement services.
• Eligibility: Severe visual impairment to
total blindness.

30. 1)CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER
• MISSION STATEMENT: The Child
Guidance Center is a not-for-profit
agency dedicated to improving our
community by providing quality
outpatient mental health care & visual
to children and adolescents regardless
of family income.

31. CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER
• One in five children in our community need
help, but two-thirds won't get in.
• 25 percent of children and adolescents have
a serious visual disturbance that severely
disrupts their daily life and ability to function.
• Without help, visual problems can lead to
school failure, alcohol or other drug abuse,
family discord, and even suicide.

32. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL
HEALTH
• 1)This is department that looks after well being
of social life of public
• 2)It has its different branches for different
abnormalities
• 3)It follows a wide lows made for low vision &
blinds

33. EDUCATIONAL SERVICE
CENTER
• The mission of the Department for the Blind
and Vision Impaired is to empower blind,
visually impaired, and deafblind individuals
to achieve their maximum level of
employment, education, and personal
independence.

34. FAMILY SERVICE CENTER
• The mission of The Family Service
Center is to improve the quality of life
through services designed to strengthen
individuals, families and organizations.
• ALL COMFORTS ARE GIVEN AS
FAMILY MEMBER TO LOW VISION
PATIENT

35. HANDICAPPED PARKING
INFORMATION
• THIS IS A BRANCH IN EUROPE
CERTIFY WHETHER PERSON IS BLIND
OR LOW VISION
• IT HAS GOT AUTHAROTI TO SPELL
BLIND

36. HEALTH DEPARTMENT
• HAS BEEN CONTROLING BY
GOVERNMENT OF EACH COUNTRY
• EVERY DEPARTMENT HAS SERVICES
FOR BLIND
• THE ALL MOST ALL COUNTRIES
FOLLOW W.H.O RULES FOR BLIND &
LOW VISION PATIENTS

37. HEALTH DEPARTMENT
• Vision Statement
vision is a society in which all people
who are legally blind or deaf-blind
and children who are visually
impaired are fully integrated into our
schools, communities, and
workplaces with equal opportunities
and benefits.

38. HEALTH DEPARTMENT
• Mission Statement
mission is to provide quality
educational and rehabilitative
services to all people who are
blind,low vision or deaf-blind and
children who are visually impaired at
no cost to our clients or their
families.

39. Agency Description
• The Board of Education and Services for the
Blind (BESB) is responsible for the confidential
registry of people who are blind in Connecticut
and provides, within available resources,
comprehensive low vision services, specialized
education services, life skills training, case
management, and vocational services to
individuals of all ages who are legally blind and to
children who are visually impaired. The agency
assists them in acquiring the skills and support
services necessary to be independent.

40. HOME HEALTH CARE
• THIS ORINATION TEACHES FAMILY
MEMBER TO HOLD CARE OF LOW
VISION PATENTS
• ONE OF FAMILY MEMBER TAKES
PART IN THIS

41. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
• LOW VISION DEVICES ARE GIVEN
OUT OF COAST (OPTICAL)
• THIS IS GROUP PEOPLES WORKING
FOR AFRICAN & POOR NATIONS

42. MEALS ON WHEELS
• The social workers provide case management and
ongoing monitoring through visits performed with the
clients in their homes. Using resources from within
the agency and coordinating with the various geriatric
social and health services throughout the city, Meals
On Wheels social workers respond to a wide range of
issues. Most often, clients are in need of in-home
help ranging from laundry and cleaning needs to
personal care such as bathing and dressing.
Frequently arranging for medical care is the greatest
need, be it coordinating transportation for doctor's
appointments or setting up a visiting nurse schedule

43. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
PARENTS OF THE VISIUALY
IMPAIRED
• STATEMENT-Parents must regard
themselves as the long-lasting resource
and the only consistent persons who
continually have the child's interest at
heart throughout their lifetime. This
organization now is a means to help them
fulfill that function."

44. Mission Statement
• NAPVI is a national organization that
enables parents to find information and
resources for their children who are blind
or visually impaired, including those with
additional disabilities.
• NAPVI provides leadership, support, and
training to assist parents in helping
children reach their

45. NAPVI is dedicated to:
• giving emotional support
• initiating outreach programs
• networking
• advocating for the educational needs and
welfare of children who are blind or
visually impaired

46. GOALS & WORK OF NAPVI
• Promote and provide information through
workshops and publications which will
help parents meet the special needs of
their child(ren) with visual impairment.
• Provide an information and referral
service.
• Promote the development of state and
local organizations of, by and for parents
of children with visual impairments.

47. • Provide seed money awards for establishment
of local NAPVI chapters
• Seed Money Awards
• NAPVI makes small grants, groups of parents
in local areas that are interested in a more
formal structure and affiliating with NAPVI. The
money is to used for start-up costs such as
mailings, meeting space, and incorporation
expenses. Typically, 4 such grants are given
each year.

48. • Publish and disperse a quarterly publication
entitled Awareness
• Maintain a national support and information
network through phone and mail
correspondence.
• National Support and Information Network
• NAPVI is the only parent support group that is
nationwide and has an 800 phone
number.provide direct support, information,
and referral services that specifically meets
the needs of families who have children who
are partially sighted, low vision, blind, and
blind with multiple disabilities.

49. • Increase public awareness about
children with visual impairments
so they are accepted by society.
• Provide workshops and
conferences.
• Foster communication and
coordination of services among
federal, state and local agencies
and organizations involved with
people with visual impairments.

50. Workshops and
Conferences
• NAPVI provides information and
increases awareness of the unique
educational, medical, and social
needs of visually impaired children
by attending and exhibiting at
selected conferences and meetings

51. Workshops and Conferences
• In years past, NAPVI has been involved in
presenting and exhibiting at major
national conferences such as the
Discovery 95 and Discovery 97 Low Vision
Conferences in Chicago, IL. Leaders from
other organizations on the committee
recognized the contribution NAPVI made
to the conference's heightened success.

52. NATIONAL ASSOCITION FOR PARENTS
OF VISUALLY HANDICAPPED
• First differentiates between blind & low
vision & treat according.
• Has special centers for Americans but
works world wide
• Free as well as payable treatment.

53. NATIONAL ASSOCITION FOR PARENTS
OF VISUALLY HANDICAPPED
• It has its council for L.V patients called as
L.V.C-low vision council
• The Low Vision Council (LVC) is an
international group of manufacturers,
practitioners, educators, agencies and
associations working together to raise
awareness of low vision rehabilitation
among eye care providers, as well as
visually impaired patients

54. Health Department
• Partially Blind /low vision
• Gardeners (T).
• Gestetner Operators (T&A),
• Liftmen (T & Digital Controls),
• Peons,
• Receptionists (T&A),

55. Health Department
• Retiring Room Attendants,
• Sweepers,
• Watermen (T),
• Waiting Room Attendants,
• Lottery Tickets sellers.
• (T- With Training
H- With a Helper
A- With Aids)