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CaptionedCall Phone Services | Sorenson CaptionCall

Provides call captioning solutions for your home phone. After sign up , a complimentary CaptionCall phone is provided as part of the service. It works like a regular phone, but has a large touchscreen that displays scrolling text of your conversation for clear caption phone calls. 

Sorenson CaptionCall is a provider of IP CTS which is a federal program supporting the requirement of the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) to allow individuals with hearing loss to use the phone in a manner that is functionally equivalent to a person without hearing loss. There is no cost for the CaptionCall phone or the captioning service.


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Lending Closet | Hampshire Township

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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Vision and Hearing Services | Freeport Lions Club

Offers eyeglasses assistance, vision magnification equipment, and assistance with hearing aids for those in need.

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Specialized Telecommunications Equipment | West Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging

Provides free amplified phones to individuals with hearing loss, and/or who are late-deafened, or deaf. Braille phones available to the blind. Cell phone amplifiers available. Voicebox amplification and other specialized equipment available for lease.

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Social Services | Lions of Illinois Foundation

Provides low-income individuals who are not eligible for eye exams, glasses, hearing tests, or hearing aids through other public benefit sources can apply for those services through their local club.

Services include

Used Eyeglasses Collection. Eyeglasses collected for distribution and reuse in poverty areas worldwide.

Diabetic Eye Screening, Travels the state to give free, basic screenings to adults with diabetes and adults over 55 years of age to detect diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration.

Mobile Hearing Screening Unit that travels the state to give free screenings to adults, detect possible hearing loss, and educate the public.

Used Hearing Aid Bank provides reconditioned hearing aids to persons who cannot afford them.

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Hospital Services | Boys Town National Research Hospital

Acute pediatric care hospital.

Services include diagnostic imaging, EEG testing, Sleep Disorders Center, child life specialists, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and surgical services.

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Medical Equipment Lending Closet | Grace Episcopal Church

Provides medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, and other equipment as available. Donations are accepted. 

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Specialized Telecommunications Equipment | West Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging

Provides free amplified phones to individuals with hearing loss, and/or who are late-deafened, or deaf. Braille phones available to the blind. Cell phone amplifiers available. Voicebox amplification and other specialized equipment available for lease.

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Wig Bank | American Cancer Society - Nebraska Locations

Wigs available for purchase online.

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Assistive Technology Equipment | Kid Assist of Jasper County

Offers to build wooden ramps for people in need who live in Jasper County, who own or rent a home. Also provides an equipment loan and donation program for items such as walkers, bath aids, toileting aids, adapted swings, adapted bikes, low tech switches and communication devices, bedside tables, and other types of products which a person with disabilities might need. This program also accepts donated wheelchairs and other equipment that are then reconditioned and loaned out to other clients. Also accepts and then loans out electric powered lift chairs. 

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Household Good and Items Assistance | Carol's Closet

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.

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Independent Living Services | PACE Center for Independent Living

Offers services which assist persons with disabilities in achieving and/or maintaining independence. Services include, but are not limited to:

- Information and Referral (personal assistant, interpreter, and housing referrals).

- Access and Advocacy (accessibility surveys, assistive devices, Braille printing).

- Skills Development (personal assistant management training, basic computer skills, public transit use, budgeting).

- Counseling (independent living, peer, vocational).

- Free Amplified Phones for Illinois residents with verifiable hearing loss who have a land line.

- Independent Living Needs Assessment.

- Mass Transit District Disability Verification.

- Reintegration into the community from nursing home, etc. (Includes possible financial assistance for moving home or into supportive living).

- PACE Presentations.

- PACE will readily provide sign language interpreters to access PACE events on request.

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Mobility and Accessibility Assistance | Friends Of Man

Assists low income individuals with a range of needs including mobility equipment, vehicle modifications, ramps and minor house modifications for accessibility, medical equipment and prostheses.

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Medical Equipment Loan Closet | University Baptist Church

Offers loans for select medical equipment. Such as crutches, walkers, and canes to individuals in the community who might benefit from the short-term use of these items. 

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Home Health Care Products and Services | Apria Healthcare

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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Medical Equipment Loans | Special Needs Foundation of Des Moines County

Loans medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds, and other assistive devices for short-term or long-term use. The equipment is available free of charge to people with medical need or disabilities, including injury or surgery.

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ALS Information and Support | ALS Association Mid-America Chapter, The

Offered services include:

- Personal case management services.

- Support group for persons with ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease and their caregivers.

- ALS Center for Excellence multi-discipline clinic specifically for people with ALS, in conjunction with Nebraska Medicine.

- Quality of life grants.

- Education and information.

- Equipment loan pool.

- Community referrals.

- Newsletters and website.

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Vision Care Resources | Prevent Blindness Iowa

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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Employment Services | Nebraska VR

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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Independent Living Skills Development | Soyland Access to Independent Living

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.

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Home Health Care Products and Services | Apria Healthcare

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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Home Medical Equipment | Mary Greeley Medical Center

Offers medical equipment sales, rentals and services. To help eliminate confusion in choices and use, credentialed and trained staff work with physicians, therapists, and nurses to get the right equipment to the client. This may include individualized training and education on the equipment being used as well as assistance in transition to home or other facility.

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Elderly Blind Program | Southern Illinois Center for Independent Living

Offers services to blind or visually impaired individuals, including provision of assistive devices and aids, and training in the proper use of the equipment.

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Hair Pieces Program | 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 your name and address on a separate sheet of paper and include inside the envelope

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Eyeglasses and Hearing Aids | Lions Clubs of Iowa

Offers eyeglasses and hearing aids to those in need that do not have adequate resources with a referral from program or agency. Assists blind persons in obtaining guide dogs and Braille typewriters.

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