Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI) offers comprehensive services for people with vision loss at any age. According to the charity, in 2009, CABVI served 4,122 through its program services.
Social Service Program offers assessment of needs and planning for services as well as counseling, information, and support groups to help in the emotional adjustment to vision lost.
The Low Vision Service Program provides clinical evaluation by a low vision optometrist and instruction in the use of prescribed low vision aids by certified low vision specialists.
Computer Access Service Program offers instruction in adaptive computer skills and use of access technology, including synthetic speech, large print, and Braille devices to help people who are blind or visually impaired participate in school, work, and the community.
Early Childhood and Youth Services Program help parents of young children who are blind or visually impaired learn about their child’s eye condition and how to help their child adapt and develop. The program also provides music therapy, orientation and mobility instruction, and consultation with teachers and other service provides.
Orientation and Mobility Service Program provides instruction in how to travel safely and independently, including the use of a white cane, public transportation systems, and gathering information through the use of the other senses. Rehabilitation Teaching Service Program provides instruction in independent living skills including communication (Braille, typing), home management (cooking, cleaning, etc.), and personal management (grooming, money identification).
Radio Reading Services Program provides access to current information for people who are print-impaired through WRRS broadcasts, personal readers, and personalized talking print (a telephone information retrieval system). Talking Book Machine Service Program distributes Library of Congress tape players to allow people who are blind, visually impaired, and print impaired to read recorded books and magazines for the National Library Service.
Volunteer Services Program provide volunteers who read printed materials in homes, offices, schools, or senior facilities, visit and provide companionship, and/or serve as sighted guides for outings.
Industries Program employs people who are blind or visually impaired in a variety of positions, including assembly, packaging, and converting machine operation.