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Provides durable medical equipment, specialty orthotics, and adaptive solutions for central Iowa children and young adults. There are specialists to educate parents and caregivers in how to safely use assistive technology for each child. ChildServe provides a wide range of adaptive or medical equipment from pediatric seating and mobility fitting to wheelchairs, adaptive devices, augmentative communication devices, custom braces, helmets, medical supplies and (prosthetics Johnston Only).

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

Provides eye exams, hearing screenings, and/or new eyeglasses. Also accepts donations of old glasses and hearing aids.

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Eye Care
Assistive Technology Equipment
Hearing Screening

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 Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Provides assistance in finding appropriate aides and modified equipment like magnifiers, talking clocks, etc.

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

Referrals for hearing loss issues and programs.

Advocacy for deaf and hard of hearing individuals and assist in Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) issues to secure such services. Promotes awareness and understanding of the rights of persons with a hearing loss.

Equipment loan programs (amplified phones, TTY phone equipment, amplified headsets and two hearing aid banks). Offers telephone equipment demonstrations.

Maintains an inventory of services available to meet the needs of the deaf and hard of hearing and assist them in securing these services.

Conducts a voluntary census of deaf and hard of hearing persons in Nebraska and compile a registry.

Provides reconditioned hearing aids to persons who need these instruments and meet the age and financial guidelines.

Expands programs and services available to deaf and hard of hearing persons throughout the state. Implements new programs through collaboration with consumer groups, the governor, legislature, organizations, institutions, and agencies. Broadens the collection and dissemination of information on hearing loss and deafness.

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Sign Language Interpretation
Assistive Technology Equipment
Interpreter/Translator Registries
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Disease/Disability Information
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

Provides eye exams and hearing screenings to individuals in the community who need assistance. Also accepts all types of useable eyeglasses and sunglasses, prescription and non-prescription.

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Eye Screening
Hearing Screening
Assistive Technology Equipment

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

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 Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction

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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Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Assistive Technology Equipment
Disease/Disability Information

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

Offers items such as wheelchairs, walkers, tub handrails, crutches and other assistive equipment and items. After 30 days client must return item or contact the public health nurse if needed for a longer period of time.

Clinical services offered at this location include pediatrics, allergy, asthma & immunology, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, ear, nose & throat, hearing and balance, orthopaedics & sports medicine, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric hematology assessment, pediatric neurology, pediatric ophthalmology, pediatric rheumatology, pediatric weight management and same day pediatrics.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Audiological Evaluations
Hearing Screening
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.
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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Assistive Technology Equipment
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Loans durable medical equipment for a nominal processing fee.

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

Provides eye exams and glasses to those in need.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Eye Examinations

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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Assistive Technology Equipment

- Provides funds to purchase wheelchairs for individuals of any age who are legally blind.

- Helps individuals who are legally blind with certain costs associated with obtaining a guide dog or assistance dog.

- Provides individualized products, devices, and services based on the consumer's needs.

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

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

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.

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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
Assistive Technology Equipment
Caregiver Counseling
Adult In Home Respite Care

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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Braille Instruction
Assistive Technology Information
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment