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LIFE Center for Independent Living (LIFE CIL)
- 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.
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.
HITEC and Clear Sounds Group International
ChildServe - Ames
Ankeny Service Center
United Cerebral Palsy of Nebraska
Information and referral.
Client assistance grants provides limited financial assistance for adaptive equipment, removing barriers in the home, and provides scholarships for special programs.
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, Fremont, 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.
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.
Illinois Assistive Technology Program
Arc of the Quad Cities Area
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.
Easterseals Central Illinois - Child and Family Connections Office #16
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.
Lions Clubs of Iowa
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.
SAIL - Main Office
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.
Lake County Center for Independent Living - McHenry County
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.
OSF Home Care/Hospice - Rockford
OSF Home Medical Equipment helps convalescent individuals of any age remain at home by offering the following (and more):
- Respiratory supplies and services.
- Mobility equipment (canes, crutches, walkers, wheelchairs).
- Bathroom safety equipment and commodes.
- Hospital beds.
In-home delivery, pick-up, education, emergency on-call and repair services are also offered.
Sarah Bush Lincoln - Coles County Hospital
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.
Broadlawns Medical Center
Offers eye screenings for vision, color and depth-perception, glaucoma, cataracts and full retinal evaluations. Also offers custom-fit eyewear and contact lenses for all ages.
American Printing House for the Blind, Inc
LIFE Center for Independent Living (LIFE CIL)
- 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.
Southern Illinois Center for Independent Living - Carbondale
Offers services to blind or visually impaired individuals, including provision of assistive devices and aids, and training in the proper use of the equipment.
Senior Services - A Division of Effingham City/County Committee on Aging
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.
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.
Easterseals DuPage and Fox Valley, Jayne Shover Center
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.
Disability Resource Center - Joliet, Illinois
ALS Association Mid-America Chapter
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.
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 Americans 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.