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Provides employment, training on using smart phones and computers and other technology for anyone who can't see a screen clearly, orientation and mobility services, recreational and cultural programs (including audio description services) adapted for people with limited or no vision.

Various Programs include:

-- Tandem Bike Club

-- Bowling League-Golf Clinic

-- Art Programs

-- Social and Recreational Events

-- Employment training and opportunities

-- Training on Adaptive Technology for computers and smart phones

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Assistive Technology Information
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Orientation and Mobility Training
Disability Related Sports

Provides free amplified phones to individuals with hearing loss, and/or who are late-deafened, or deaf. Braille phones available to the blind. Cell phone amplifiers available. Voicebox amplification and other specialized equipment available for lease.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Provides medical and health-related items for purchase or rent to individuals in need of continuing care at home. Offers 24/7 emergency call service, as well as training in how to safely and effectively use medical equipment at home. Mobility support and rehabilitation aids also available, along with respiratory support devices, sleep care devices, and women's health aids breast pumps and post mastectomy supplies and custom fitting consultations.

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Medical Equipment/Supplies
Assistive Technology Equipment
Durable medical equipment and home care items for sale or rent.

24-hour oxygen.

Professional nursing uniforms.

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Medical Equipment/Supplies
Work Clothing
Provides a medical equipment lending library for those in need.

Offers a medical equipment program that provides walkers, canes, commodes, bath chairs, and other assistive devices to the general public for no cost. Donations welcome.

Services for individuals with disabilities. Includes information and referral, service coordination, independent living skills training, individual and system advocacy, equipment loan and rental, equipment repair, barrier removal consultations and grants, peer mentoring, and disability awareness training. Personal assistant referral and management program.

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Assistive Technology Information
Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Specialized Information and Referral
Disease/Disability Registries
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.

Services include

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

Categories

Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment

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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Assistive Technology Equipment
Occupation Specific Job Training
Provides qualifying area residents with access to eye care and vision correction.


The Adult Vision Clinic is located at MCSA to provide underserved adult Muscatine-area residents with access to eye care and vision correction.


Staffed by local volunteer optometrists and offers routine eye examinations and glasses as necessary.


A $10 co-pay is required from each patient, which covers the examination and glasses as needed. A client may be referred by MCSA, Muscatine County Community Services, the Department of Human Services (DHS), or Community Action when it is determined they are within 100% of poverty guidelines and do not qualify for other medical assistance programs.

Please call for more information. Patients needing further care (for pre-glaucoma, glaucoma, or other more serious conditions) will be referred to the Ophthalmology Department at the University of Iowa, which serves all Iowa residents, regardless of ability to pay.


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Eye Screening
Assistive Technology Equipment

Offers a loan closet that includes walkers, wheelchairs, crutches, chairs, canes, commodes, and bed pans as available. Also offers eyeglass recycling.

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Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Medical Equipment/Supplies
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

Provides durable medical equipment lending program provides donated walkers, wheelchairs, manual hospital beds, canes and commodes to those in need.

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Medical Equipment/Supplies
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Offers medical equipment for loan, including: wheel chairs, walkers, canes, crutches, shower chairs, and more.

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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Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Civic Groups
Eye Screening
Center for Independent Living.

Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

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Medical Equipment/Supplies
Driving Evaluation
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Driver Training
Centers for Independent Living
Disease/Disability Registries
Disability Rights Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Peer to Peer Networking

Offers medical equipment loans at no cost. Equipment includes, but is not limited to, wheelchairs, walkers, transport chairs, rolling walkers, knee walkers, canes, crutches, quad canes, half walkers, shower benches, commodes, shower seats, transfer benches, leg lifters, sock assisters, gait belts, medical equipment donations are also accepted.

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

Categories

Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment

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.

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.
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

Offers assistance and support to people who have multiple sclerosis and those who care about them adjust to life with a chronic illness by providing emotional support, current information, counseling, advocacy, education, payee services and borrowed health equipment.

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Representative Payee Services
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Disease/Disability Information
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

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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Assistive Technology Equipment
Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services

Accepts donations of new and gently-used building products, appliances, furniture, and home medical equipment and supplies. (No mattresses are available.)

The products are offered for sale to the general public, with proceeds benefiting Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities.

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General Appliance Provision
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Furniture
Low Cost Building Materials/Supplies