All Services & Consultations For Adults

Orientation & Mobility Consultation

Service

Online, In-Person

Braille Institute’s trained Orientation & Mobility specialists are here to help you find your way around again for a new normal that keeps you active. We’ll work with you one-on-one so that you can be on the road again either alone, using a white cane, or with a guide dog. We also work with your caregiver to best support them as a human guide.

Braille Institute O&M specialist working with a woman with white cane to navigate walking from parking lot.

Low Vision Rehabilitation Consultation

Service

Online, In-Person

If your vision is affecting your ability to perform daily tasks, Braille Institute’s Low Vision Rehabilitation Service can help you. Our occupational therapists will complete an evaluation of your abilities and your vision impairment and recommend services to help you adapt. From magnification devices to maximize your remaining vision, to techniques for completing tasks and getting around, we’ll help you get back to your real life.

Man wearing glasses looks at a page of paper with lighting as a Braille Institute Low Vision Occupational Therapist works with him.

Assistive Technology

Service

Online, In-Person

We offer instruction for a wide range of mainstream and adaptive technology devices. We also provide access to many of these devices for you to work with, or to get hands-on training. They’re here—and we’re here—to help you make technology a useful part of your life. Many of our instructors are visually impaired themselves—they’ll show you what you need to know in a way that you can understand.

A technology instructor training a student on an iPad.

Library Services

Service

Online, In-Person

Braille Institute Library offers over 120,000 titles of audio, large format and braille books as a member of the National Library Service network – a free library service that provides braille and talking books to people with temporary or permanent disabilities. Additionally, services like a Telephone Reader Program to hear current news and periodicals, e-Readers, a recording studio and more are available for to those who become patrons. For kids, we offer storybook braille kits in our Dots for Tots, and for all ages, we offer book clubs and a summer reading program. Contact us to learn how to keep enjoying your favorite reads, or start a life full of reading and literary adventure.