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Offers help with rent, water, prescriptions, dental, optical, hearing aids, and car repairs.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment

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

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
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction

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.

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Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Assistive Technology Equipment
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Autism Therapy
Speech Therapy

Offers eye exams at no cost and glasses to those in need. Adults can only receive assistance once every two years, children may only receive assistance once every year.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Eye Examinations
Provides mobility equipment (specialized bikes, gait trainers, standers, specialized strollers) to children living with special needs.
Assistive technology services provides 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.
Offers durable medical and assistive technology equipment for loan to anyone in need. Will accept gently used assistive devices and medical equipment for the loan closet.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs

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.

Accommodates individuals with disabilities. Includes equipment loan for individuals with disabilities who are not residing in a care facility (wheelchairs for adults and children, walkers, shower bench, lift, hospital bed). Small fee applies. Also, provides an assistive technology lending library, exchange program and demonstration center.

Lending Library will be expanding, increasing access to assistive technology devices for individuals over 18 with disabilities, and for individuals over 60 experiencing social isolation. Along with an expansion of lendable devices, Easter Seals will be providing more training and education for individuals with disabilities, and their families, on using the devices. All items will remain the property of Easterseals Iowa. Will assist with training on how to use items correctly.

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
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction

- 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.

- 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

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.

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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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Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Eye Care
Hearing Screening
Medical Expense Assistance
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology Equipment

Provides a wide variety of services to the community, including literacy programs, Recycle for Sight, vision screening, community service.

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.

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.

Provides eye exams and glasses to those in need.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Eye Examinations
Canes can be purchased through Tri-state Blind Society.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Helps Nebraskans with disabilities, their families, and professionals obtain assistive technology devices and services.

Provides training on a wide range of assistive devices, as well as early childhood/school age development and technology services.

Locates available funding sources.

Provides information about:
-- Technology solutions, costs, availability, and vendors
-- Specialized or adapted vehicles and mobility devices

Offers technical assistance:
-- Individualized assessments for home and worksite modifications
-- Early childhood and school solutions
-- Website assessments for accessibility

Equipment provision:
-- Demonstrations of assistive technology
-- Short term equipment loans
-- Locating used equipment

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Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment

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).

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.

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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Assistive Technology Equipment
Natural Hair/Wig Donation Programs
Offers an equipment loan program that purchases new and used equipment 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. Can also loan out electric powered lift chairs.

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

May provide for modifications to the home and/or vehicle that directly address a person's medical health or are necessary to provide for the medical needs, welfare and safety of the individual and to increase or maintain independence.

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Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
Assistive Technology Equipment