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Vocational rehabilitation services include vocational guidance and counseling; training, tuition, and equipment; occupational equipment and supplies; assistance for establishing small businesses (NBE); job placement and follow-up services; and medical services.

Orientation and adjustment center.

Consultants for people who are blind or visually impaired.

Training in cane travel and independent living skills.

Home training.

Supportive services and transitional services for youth who are proceeding from high school to college.

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Disease/Disability Information
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment
Orientation and Mobility Training

- Assists qualified individuals who are blind or have low-vision learn the skills needed to maintain an independent lifestyle.

- Provides a variety of low-vision aids and assistive devices at no cost.

- Offers referrals for additional services such as community orientation, mobility training, and guide dog services.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Orientation and Mobility Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Free 4-line, 28 cell slate and a round or saddle stylus to any blind or low vision person needing one. Individuals can request a free slate and stylus once per year.

Evaluation, sales, service, and rentals of wheelchair and handicap accessible vans and adaptive equipment products.

Free evaluation to assess needs for individuals or families.

Sells mini vans, full-size vans, mini buses, ramps, lifts and parts; rentals and service available.

Converts vans to wheelchair accessibility.

State and VA approved. Assistance in obtaining financing.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Provides medical equipment to those in need including wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, commodes. Call to check on availability.
Operates a durable medical equipment loan program free of charge (90-days) for wheelchairs, walkers, commodes, bath seats, etc. with the option of one renewal, available on a first-come, first served basis.

Home health nursing and aides. Offer skilled nursing care, maternal care, medical social work, palliative care, home medical equipment, and speech, physical, and occupational therapies.

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Physical Therapy
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Palliative Care
Speech Therapy
Home Health Aide Services
Medical Social Work
Home Nursing

Information and referral.

Client assistance grants provides limited financial assistance for adaptive equipment, removing barriers in the home, and provides scholarships for special programs."Go Baby Go" services provide modified, ride-on cars for free to young children, approximately 9 months to 6 years, with special needs who experience limited mobility.

Tech Tools, a developmental technology library, provides adapted toys and devices to people of all ages with individual and physical disabilities at no cost to families and professionals. Libraries are located in Omaha, Gretna, Lincoln, Norfolk, Grand Island, and Kearney.

Family Focus is a series of events throughout the year designed for the entire family unit bringing families facing similar challenges together and providing the opportunity to draw strength and knowledge as well as relax and socialize.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Disease/Disability Information
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Prevent Blindness Iowa reaches thousands of Iowans through screening and education programs. Free eye exams and/or glasses for qualified low-income children and adults. Resource referrals for additional needs. Individuals need to call, no walk-ins.

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Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Eye Screening
Assistive Technology Equipment
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Provides medical equipment for sale or for rent to patients. Services offered include sleep care, respiratory care, diabetes care, enternal nutrition care, pharmacy, and wound care. For specific information on what medical equipment that is available for sale or for rent clients must call.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Provides medical equipment for sale or for rent to patients. Services offered include sleep care, respiratory care, diabetes care, enternal nutrition care, pharmacy, and wound care. For specific information on what medical equipment that is available for sale or for rent clients must call.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Medical Equipment/Supplies

Clinical services offered at this location include pediatrics, allergy, asthma & immunology, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, ear, nose & throat, hearing and balance, orthopaedics & sports medicine, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric hematology assessment, pediatric neurology, pediatric ophthalmology, pediatric rheumatology, pediatric weight management and same day pediatrics.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Hearing Screening
Audiological Evaluations
Canes can be purchased through Tri-state Blind Society.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Carol's Closet can help veterans, seniors, and persons with disabilities with household items including furniture and bedding, hospital beds, walkers, wheelchairs (including motorized), shower chairs, commodes and adult hygiene items. In addition, Carol's Closet can help families with newborn baby clothes to size 6 children's clothes, diapers, new cribs and car seats, baby essentials, and household items including dishes, furniture and bedding. Carol's Closet also has a handicap accessible van and standing lift for loan with a donation. Carol's Closet accepts donations of good and has opportunities for people to volunteer.

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Shower/Bath Seats
Personal/Grooming Supplies
Baby Furniture
Personal/Grooming Supplies Donation Programs
Wheelchair Donation Programs
Bedding/Linen Donation Programs
Hospital Beds
Wheelchairs/Wheeled Mobility
Bedding/Linen
Baby Furniture Donation Programs
General Furniture Provision
Hospital Bed Donation Programs
Baby Clothing
Thrift Shop Support Volunteer Opportunities
Walking Aids
Child Passenger Safety Seats
Diapers
Assessments of individuals with disabilities, including a functional evaluation of the individual in the classroom environment. Provides information on purchasing, leasing, or otherwise obtaining assistive devices for individuals with disabilities.

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Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology Information

Provides chore services to the aged and disabled population in rural Nebraska, including home health care, medical supplies, employment services and senior disability transportation.

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Disability Related Transportation
Home Health Aide Services
Senior Community Service Employment Programs
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Provides durable medical equipment, specialty orthotics, and adaptive solutions for central Iowa children and young adults. There are specialists to educate parents and caregivers in how to safely use assistive technology for each child. ChildServe provides a wide range of adaptive or medical equipment from pediatric seating and mobility fitting to wheelchairs, adaptive devices, augmentative communication devices, custom braces, helmets, medical supplies and (prosthetics Johnston Only).

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Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Assistive Technology Equipment
Medical Equipment/Supplies

Offers a medical equipment closet where community members can borrow medical equipment for up to six months.

Provides medical equipment that has been donated to this program is loaned out for those in need. Items in the loan closet include wheelchairs, bath/shower stools, walkers, crutches, commodes and more.

Hair replacement for children who have experienced hair loss due the illnesses of cancer, alopecia, trichotillomania, and other medical conditions.

See website for information on hair donation and stylists that provide services free of charge for donors.

Wigs for Kids does not charge their recipients for the custom wigs.

Monetary donations are needed to underwrite the manufacturing of the hairpieces and distribution.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Natural Hair/Wig Donation Programs

Used medical equipment available for township residents. Equipment can be on loan for up to 3 months, or more if approved. Common items available:

- Walkers

- Wheel chairs

- Crutches

- Commodes

- Shower Seats

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Assistive Technology Equipment

- Advocates for the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.

- Coordinates public disability awareness activities including presentations to community groups.

- Assists individuals with hearing and speech disabilities access communication needs.

- Assists with independent living skills training (money management, assertiveness training, self-advocacy, etc.).

- Provides information and referral services.

- Provides peer mentoring for individual and group settings.

- Provides transition services such as moving qualified individuals from nursing facilities or other institutions to independent living.

- Assists youth with disabilities transition from high school to adult life.

- Provides personal assistant services.

- Operates a Community Advocacy Training program for youth and adults.

- Assists individuals with vision loss or blindness acquire assistive devices and skills training.

- Operates a medical equipment loan program.

- Provides mentoring for parents of youth with disabilities.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment
Centers for Independent Living
Specialized Information and Referral
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Clinicians are available at all hours by phone to answer questions and dispatch someone to the bedside, if necessary. Medical equipment and medications are delivered to the home a well, and respite care provides up to 5 days of Medicare-certified inpatient care for a hospice patient so that family members can take a break from their caregiving duties to relax, unwind, recharge, travel, recover from an illness or attend other events.

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Adult In Home Respite Care
Hospice Care
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Adult Out of Home Respite Care