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5400 West Elm Street, Suite 106, Mchenry, IL 60050
Offers amplified phones for those who have an amplified phone voucher. Once a person has their voucher, they can come to the center and try out each of the phones and select their preference.
4600 Valley Road, Suite 420, Lincoln, NE 68510
Provides information, advocacy, and referral services for deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing Nebraskans, as well as families, businesses, and community partners.
Offers guidance on available programs, services, and technology, and supports individuals and organizations in navigating communication access and accessibility across Nebraska.
Services include:
- Information and referral to statewide and local resources.
- Sign language interpreter referral service.
- Advocacy and education on deaf culture, communication access, and disability rights.
- Guidance on accessibility solutions, including interpreters, assistive technology, and communication tools.
- Support in understanding rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
- Connection to programs such as the Nebraska Specialized Telecommunications Equipment Program (NSTEP) and the Hearing Aid Bank (HAB).
12011 Q Street, Omaha, NE 68137
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.
1111 9th Street, Suite 250, Des Moines, IA 50314
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.
234 Southern Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
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.
1670 South Taylorville Road, Decatur, IL 62521
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.
1135 Bowes Road, Suite B, Elgin, IL 60123
Provides outpatient rehabilitation services to children with developmental delays and disabilities. Services include occupational, physical, and speech-language therapies, developmental evaluations and support, audiology services, autism services, and assistive technology equipment for those in need.
PO Box 24168, Omaha, NE 68124
Wigs available for purchase online.
Address Confidential, Dubuque, IA 52004
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.
650 West Taylor Street, Vandalia, IL 62471
Offers to rent and sell medical equipment for individuals in need to maintain independence in the comfort of their home. Technicians deliver and install the equipment and spend the necessary amount of time teaching people and caregivers how to use the new equipment and where to call for assistance should the need arise.
611 West Park Street, Urbana, IL 61801
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)
4016 9th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201
Assistive technology services provide alternatives to individuals with physical and/or developmental disabilities, who find independence challenging at work, at home, or in the community.
Provides evaluations and recommendations, assistance in obtaining funding for equipment, training for the individual and their primary caregiver(s), follow-up, and equipment maintenance. Staff will travel to home, facility, etc.
5000 Tremont Avenue, Suite 101, Davenport, IA 52806
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.
309 South Greene Street, Boone, IA 50036
Offers a durable medical equipment loan closet. The DME loan closet is open every Tuesday and Thursday 1 pm-3 pm. Equipment is on a first come first serve basis. Donations of clean and gently used items may also be donated during regular hours of the DME loan closet.
3001 Montvale Drive, Suite A, Springfield, IL 62704
Offers a voucher program and loan program for specialized telecommunications equipment for individuals who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, speech-disabled, or deaf-blind.
- Voucher Program: The client owns the equipment. Equipment is covered under a 3-year warranty. Participants in good standing are eligible for a new voucher every 3 years.
- Loan Program: ITAC loans the equipment to the client and takes care of the normal upkeep of the equipment. Repairs and exchanges are covered under normal usage, wear, and tear.
Equipment available includes:
- Amplified phones.
- Captioned phones.
- Cell (loan program only).
- Cell phone amplifier.
- Speech equipment.
- TTY, deaf iPhone/deaf iPad (iPhone and iPad are part of the loam program only).
213 North 3rd Avenue East, Newton, IA 50208
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.
200 Lerna Road South, Mattoon, IL 61938
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)
PO Box 5233, Sioux City, IA 51101
Services include eye exams and glasses, hearing aids, eye donor cards, leader dog procurement, cornea transplants at University of Iowa, for those not covered by insurance or other programs.
Iowa Lions Kidsight: A cooperative sight project with the University of Iowa Hospitals. Pre-school children are screened by taking pictures of their eyes and sending the pictures to the U of IA Hospitals for evaluation. Parents are notified if their child is found to need eye care.
Charity grants to community agencies with regard to eyesight and hearing, food banks, clothing, and more.
Listening program provides equipment to preschools to help with autistic children.
Recycles eye glasses, lenses, frames and hearing aids. Lions disassemble, measure, clean and inventory the various parts to be available for people of third world countries as VOSH teams determine prescriptions.
International Lions Foundation: Our club supports the ILF to a total of $1000 each three years. Lions members and others in the community contribute additionally.
Other services are considered as needs are identified if fund are available and the club's board and members approve. More information available online.
Fountains Senior Living, 3752 Thunder Ridge Road, Bettendorf, IA 52722
Assistance with glasses, hearing aids, or guide dogs for the blind, or can be referred to the Lions Eye Bank. Individuals must be referred by an agency and complete appropriate forms.
22 Veterans Drive, Suite A, Harrisburg, IL 62946
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.
Nebraska Department of Education, 1212 Benjamin Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701
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.
PO Box 2970, Wimberley, TX 78676
Telecommunications equipment for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired, visually impaired, or mobility disabled.
3307 Bill Schock Boulevard, PO Box 399, Falls City, NE 68355
Outpatient clinic provides cardiac, orthopedic, urology, ENT, oncology, OB, wound care, and vascular care.
Radiology department includes ultrasounds, CT scans, mammograms, MRI, and nuclear medicine.
Other services include home visits to newborns, diabetic education, cancer support and information, wigs for chemotherapy patients, and discharge planning which includes support services for patients and families during hospitalization and upon discharge.
610 Park Avenue, Pekin, IL 61554
Offers help with rent, water, prescriptions, dental, optical, hearing aids, and car repairs.
24231 Center Ridge Road, Westlake, OH 44145
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.