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Elburn Lions Club
Provides a wide variety of services to the community, including literacy programs, Recycle for Sight, vision screening, community service.
Southern Illinois Center for Independent Living - Carbondale
Provides amplified phones, CapTel phones, and Braille phones to those individuals whose hearing loss can be verified by by physician.
Carle - Champaign on Kirby
Offers a variety of rental medical equipment and supplies.
Products include:
-- Mobility aids
-- Breast pumps and accessories
-- Bandages and wound care
-- Medical instruments
-- Orthopedic products
-- Aids for daily living
-- Ostomy products
-- Hosiery and medical legwear
-- Oxygen, respiratory and CPAP machines and accessories
-- Hospital beds and accessories
-- Home safety products (grab bars, bath/shower benches, elevated toilet seats)
ARK Advocates
Provides a durable medical equipment loan program. Offering a variety of equipment to check out for temporary or short term use for a trial or leading to a purchase for recreational purposes such wheelchairs, bathing equipment or adaptive bicycles to assist with mobility, communication, daily living, sensory and recreation and leisure activities.
CGH Vision Center
Eye care services include:
- Adult and children's eye exams.
- Cataract surgery.
- Diabetic eye care.
- Laser surgery.
- Glaucoma.
- Floaters.
- Eyelid plastic surgery.
- Pediatric eye disease.
- Macular degeneration.
Eyeglasses services include:
- Standard prescriptions.
- No-line bifocals.
- Ultra-thin/ultra-light lenses.
- OSHA-approved safety glasses.
- Sports glasses.
- Custom sunglasses.
Easterseals Central Illinois
- Ray and Kathy LaHood Center for Cerebral Palsy: Variety of diagnoses that impact movement and motor development, including but not limited to cerebral palsy, hypotonia, developmental delays, and genetic disorders. May assess the child's range of motion, gait pattern, orthotics, and other assistive technology equipment, review the child and family's needs, and work with the family and physician to establish a plan of care.
- Orthotics Clinic: Prescription for custom-fitted orthotics/braces to provide stability and support for proper positioning of the feet and ankles during standing, walking, and other functional activities.
Strom Center - Warren County
Provides medical equipment such a walkers, wheelchairs, stool risers, etc. to those in need. Equipment is loaned out for a maximum of three months free of charge.
SAIL - Triple C Outreach
Provides informational and educational programming targeted toward a consumer or a group of consumers with the intent to develop or increase the skills, knowledge and/or abilities required to live, work and play in the community.
Programs offered include self-advocacy and awareness, life skills training, braille training, TTY training, personal assistant information, interpreter referrals and equipment demonstration and loan.
Boys Town National Research Hospital - Downtown Clinic
Clinical services offered include:
- Pediatrics,
- Developmental-behavioral pediatrics,
- Ear, nose and throat,
- Audiology,
- Orthopedics and sports medicine,
- Pediatric gastroenterology,
- Pediatric hematology assessment,
- Pediatric neurology,
- Pediatric ophthalmology,
- Pediatric rheumatology,
- Pediatric cardiology,
- Same Day Pediatrics.
Indianola Noon Lions Club
Provides a directory of Lions Clubs and would refer based on where inquirer lives for possible assistance with glasses and hearing aid needs. Accepts donations of used eyeglasses for third world projects. Also accepts used hearing aids. Eye screenings for children 6 months to 48 months. PROJECTS include an Eye Bank and donor information.
Grant Wood Area Education Agency - 33rd Avenue Facility
Provides augmentative and alternative communication options through assistive technology, which enables children and youth with disabilities to participate more fully in all aspects of life. Augmentative and Alternative Communication includes various communication methods that enhance or replace verbal speech or writing for individuals with communication disabilities. Check the team resource folders for additional Assistive Technology & Augmentative and Alternative Communication information for IEP teams to consider and utilize including AT Information and Tools, AAC Information and Tools, or use the form link on the website to request AAC Collaboration.
National Federation of the Blind
Free white cane available to any blind or low vision individual in the United States, regardless of ability to pay. Individuals may request a cane as often as every six months. The cane is a straight white fiberglass cane.
Easterseals Central Illinois
Equipment available includes seating/positioning devices, bathing/toileting equipment, standing devices, wheeled mobility, and electronic aids to daily living. Evaluations and fittings provided.
Specific programs include:
- "Amtryke" program provides adapted tricycles.
- "iCan Bike" program teaches children how to ride a bicycle.
- Augmentative/Alternative Communication uses high-tech devices and low-tech strategies to facilitate communication and speech development.
Bettendorf Lions Club
LIFE Center for Independent Living (LIFE CIL)
Apria Healthcare - Marion
Nebraska VR - Kearney
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.
Illinois Assistive Technology Program
Coleman Tri-County Services - CTS Creative
Provides services for blind individuals ages 55 and older. Services include low-vision and other communication aids, orientation and mobility training, services to help correct blindness, training in activities of daily living, and any other appropriate services to assist them to live independently.
Senior Services of Marion County
Caregiver services are available to informal or family caregivers of persons over the age of 60 or to grandparents raising grandchildren.
Services can include respite care (services that give caregivers a rest), home modification, assistive devices, transportation, and financial assistance.
Able Up Iowa
Offers to loan equipment or services needed to improve independence and quality of life. Examples include wheelchairs, scooters, Braille equipment, voice simulation systems, scanners, listening devices, telecommunication devices for the hard of hearing, augmentative communication systems, environmental control units, computers, and adaptive peripherals. Loans for Service or Support Animals - can help with the acquisition of the animal, its training, veterinary care, and up to one year of supplies for care. Loans for Education or Employment Equipment - helps with modifying or purchasing equipment necessary to complete training, acquire or maintain employment. Loans for home or vehicle modifications (adding a ramp, widening doorways, hand controls, etc.) Loans for essential vehicle or home repairs. Loans to help build or repair credit.
Most loans have flexible terms, up to 5 years. Most loans are capped at $2,500. Assistive technology loans may go up to $10,000, but there may be a waitlist for loans over $2,500.
Boys Town National Research Hospital - West
Clinical services offered include:
- Pediatrics,
- Developmental-behavioral pediatrics,
- Ear, nose and throat,
- Audiology,
- Orthopedics and sports medicine,
- Pediatric gastroenterology,
- Pediatric hematology assessment,
- Pediatric neurology,
- Pediatric ophthalmology,
- Pediatric rheumatology,
- Pediatric cardiology,
- Same Day Pediatrics.
Locks of Love
Hair pieces for financially disadvantaged children under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.
To donate hair, use the following guidelines:
- 10 inches measured tip to tip is the minimum length needed for donation;
- Hair must be in a ponytail or braid before it is cut;
- Hair must be clean and completely dry before it is mailed in;
- Place the ponytail or braid inside of a plastic bag, and then inside of a padded envelope;
- Fill out the hair donation form, or write name and address on a separate sheet of paper and include inside the envelope.
Nebraska VR - North Platte
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.
Harvard Community Senior Center
Offers The Senior Tech Connect Program which is committed to helping improve the mental and emotional well-being of seniors. Provides devices that are video chat capable to help keep seniors connected with friends and family.