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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/Supplies
Assistive Technology Equipment
Provides mobility equipment (specialized bikes, gait trainers, standers, specialized strollers) to children living with special needs.

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Assistive Technology Equipment

Offers services to blind or visually impaired individuals, including: adaptive devices and training on adaptive equipment.

Provides assistive tools & devices that can help in the home and life.

- 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.

If an individual has trouble hearing on the phone, he or she may be eligible for a free amplified phone. Individuals can receive an application packet, test, and select a phone they would like to order.

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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Audiological Evaluations
Assistive Technology Equipment
Hearing Screening
Eye Exams-are available if a person has Medicare or Medicaid.

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

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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Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology Equipment
Medical Expense Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Hearing Screening
Eye Care
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
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
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.

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.

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Occupation Specific Job Training
Assistive Technology Equipment

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)

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
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

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.

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Civic Groups
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Eye Screening

Free white cane available to any blind or low vision individual in the United States, regardless of ability to pay. Individuals may request a cane as often as every six months. The cane is a straight white fiberglass cane.

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.

Selection center for the ITAC Amplified Phone Program. Those that have trouble hearing on the phone may be eligible for a free amplified phone and/or cellular amplifier. Individuals can receive an application packet, test, and select the equipment they would like to order at LIFE CIL.

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
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
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.
Hearing Aids can be provided to low-income clients through the Sertoma Club.

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Assistive Technology Equipment

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
Interpreter/Translator Registries
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Disease/Disability Information
Assistive Technology Equipment
Advocacy and services for persons with all types of disabilities including skills training, peer counseling, information and referral, and technical assistance about the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Blind Services works with individuals one-on-one to instruct persons who have lost (or are losing) their vision, on how to read Braille and organize their household and travel. Produces and replicates Braille materials. Translates materials such as menus and brochures into Braille and produces multiple copies as a service to the community. (There is a normal cost per Braille page produced, plus $25 per hour for formatting.)

Captioning at Real Time (CART) provides the translation of spoken words into text using a stenotype machine operated by a stenographer/reporter. Real-time software is used to display the text onto a computer monitor, and a projector or other device is used to display the text on a television or larger screen. CART is especially valuable in large meetings or in communications with a person who is deaf or has hearing loss. CART can be utilized in following settings: community events and workshops, government, legal, educational, medical, theater and auditorium, and captioning of movies and videos.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services provides one-on-one services for independent living skills training, information and referral, advocacy, and peer counseling. Serves as a TTY Distribution site for ITAC (Illinois Telecommunications Access Commission), which provides free TTY devices to Illinois residents. Distributes applications for Iowa TTY distributions for Iowa residents who are qualified (speech impaired or hard of hearing). Distributes amplified phones for residents of Illinois of all ages who have a difficult time hearing on the phone.

Provide information and resources on low-tech independent living devices such as magnifiers, talking watches, etc., when funding is available.

Housing assistance provides information and problem-solving assistance with locating and securing affordable, accessible housing, including research into public and private-sector housing markets.

Information and Referral service provides information through Illinois/Iowa Center for Independent Living's system and library. Requests for information can be made by phone, mail, or in person, and can include loans of library materials.

Outreach services offers presentations, brochures, media releases, public service announcements, media interviews, and video programs to inform the public of programs and services offered.

Volunteers are utilized in programs, services, and office operations; volunteers receive training and supervision appropriate to their duties.

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Disability Rights Groups
ADA Implementation Assistance
Disease/Disability Registries
Braille Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Braille Transcription
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment
Centers for Independent Living