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Adjustment Services
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This service provides counseling and training in independent living skills to blind, deaf/blind and visually impaired North Carolina residents. Counseling related to blindness, deaf/blindness, loss of vision and coordinating services with other providers are vital components. This service also focuses on developing skills in:
-Alternate communication methods
-Orientation and mobility
-Safe travel, such as using a sighted guide, using a white cane, taking public transportation a...
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Chore Services for the Blind
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Chore Services for the Blind provides paraprofessionals (qualified aides) to help blind, deaf/blind and visually impaired North Carolina residents with basic home management tasks such as housekeeping, cooking, and laundry which assists consumers with basic home management task.
This service enables North Carolina residents or consumers who are blind, deaf/blind and visually impaired to remain independent and continue living in their own homes and communities. Consu...
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Employment Opportunities in Food Services and Vending
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This service provides training to legally blind North Carolinians who are interested in working in food service or vending. To qualify, operators must be legally blind and meet other eligibility requirements. Then they must complete a six-week training course and do on-the-job training with an established operator in a Business Enterprise facility.
The operator receives a license and may apply for any vacant Business Enterprise facility.
Operators continue to receive assistance a...
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Independent Living Rehabilitation Assessment
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This service, which benefits blind, deaf/blind and visually impaired North Carolina residents, assesses functional abilities and limitations, interests and service needs of the individual seeking services.
This includes evaluating the support system of the person, access to other services and resources in the community, and reviewing medical reports and other factors that may affect independent living rehabilitation needs. Basic information requested to complete an assessment ...
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Independent Living Rehabilitation Guidance & Counseling
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Eligible individuals receive counseling and guidance services related to blindness, deaf/blindness, or vision loss and adjustment in addition to assistance in identifying the goals, services, resources and supports needed to help them independently manage activities of daily living in their homes, communities and employment.
North Carolina residents who are blind, deaf/blind, or have vision loss can access this service by contacting one of the seven district office...
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Independent Living Rehabilitation Teaching
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Residents of North Carolina who have blindness, deaf/blindness or vision loss may receive extensive, specialized and individualized instruction the use of adaptive techniques and equipment for performing daily living tasks after on set of these disabilities. Instruction is provided in the homes of eligible individuals and in community-based classes called Mini Centers. Basic skills taught include:-Use of adaptive devices and technology
-Safe travel ...
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Medical Eye Care Services
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Medical Eye Care provides one-on-one care which may include eye exams, surgery, purchase of eyeglasses, low-vision evaluations and eye care education to prevent blindness and restore vision. Services are provided by eye care professionals.
Services are available to low-income North Carolina residents who do not qualify for Medicare. The social worker for the blind in each county determines eligibility.
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Pre-Employment Transition Services
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The Rehabilitation Act, as amended by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA) created pre-employment transition services as a new category of vocational rehabilitation services specifically for students with disabilities. The activities charged to this service include "Required Activities" (34 CFR 361.48(a)(2)), five categories of direct services provided to students with disabilities: 1. Work-based Learning Experiences...
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Vocational Rehabilitation Assistive Technology Services
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Services in assistive technology are provided for assessment of technology skills and needs, the design of an assistive technology program that will meet the requirements of eligible blind, deaf/blind and visually impaired individuals to access a training program and/or a job, job site assessment and modification, the assembly of the system, the initial maintenance of the system, and the instruction in its use. These services are planned and coordinate through the rehabilitation counselor,...
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Vocational Rehabilitation Diagnostic and Assessment Services
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Diagnostic and assessment services are provided to determine the ability to obtain, maintain, or regain employment of a blind, deaf/blind or visually impaired person. A plan of assessment methods is developed and implemented by trained vocational evaluation staff in coordination with the vocational rehabilitation counselor working with the individual.
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