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Overseas courses
This section provides you a list of overseas training programmes specially designed to suit visually impaired people.
Badger Association of the Blind
Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind
Computer ABC training for the Blind
Duluth Lighthouse for the Blind
Northcentral Technical College
Badger Association of the Blind
The association first and foremost evaluates and assesses incoming skill level and determines the duration of training needed to reach stated goals.
Training is imparted in the following areas: mobility, adaptive computer technology, activities of daily living, communications, low vision services, and social interactions.
Contact details: 912 N. Hawley Road
Milwaukee, WI 53213
Phone: (414) 258-9200
Website: www.badgerassoc.org
Northcentral Technical College
Northcentral offers on site training / classes in consumer education, orientation and mobility, personal care, food preparation, physical education, communications skills, low vision evaluations, and adaptive technology.
The student has the opportunity for career exploration, assessment, and guidance.
Contact details: 1000 Campus Drive
Wausau, WI 54401
Fax: (715) 675-9018, (715) 675-3331
Website: www.northcentral.tec.wi.us
Rehabilitation teaching, low vision services, mobility training.
Contact details: 625 Adams Street
Rockford, IL 61107
Voice/TTY (815) 965-4454
FAX (815) 965-6023
Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind
The organisation serves people who are blind, deaf-blind, and blind with additional disabilities.
It trains people for office careers with courses in word processing, medical and legal terminology, and industrial training. It also offers vocational evaluation, job readiness training, and job placement.
Contact details: 1850 W. Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: TTY (312) 666-8874
Website: www.chicagolighthouse.org
Duluth Lighthouse for the Blind
The organisation provides comprehensive rehabilitation services and employment opportunities for blind and visually disabled individuals. Rehabilitation services include training in orientation and mobility, techniques of daily living, communications, and other compensatory skill training, counseling, vocational evaluation.
Contact details: 4505 W. Superior St.
Duluth, MN 55807-2728
Fax: (218) 624-4479
E-mail: rehaabsrv@cp.duluth.mn.us
They provide a comprehensive adjustment to blindness program, consisting of both classroom and residential components. Classes include braille reading and writing, independent cane travel, home and self management, typing, computer literacy, and career exploration.
Contact details: 100 East 22nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55404-2514,
Phone: (612) 872-0100
The organisation has a rehabilitation center, provides low vision services, community rehabilitation services, programs for the elderly, and a workshop for the blind.
Contact details: 1936 Lyndale Ave., S.
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone: (612) 871-2222
Website: www.visionlossresources.org
Computer ABC training for the Blind
The Computer Technologies Program introduces visually impaired persons to the Windows Operating System, Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer.
Contact details: Brian Landes,
Program Assistant
Phone: 510-849-2911 Ext: 308
Fax: 510-849-2968
E-mail: bal@infionline.net, info@ctpberk.org
Website: http://www.ctpberk.org/cabc.htm
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