Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted

Misson and activities:

Founded as an independent nonprofit vision rehabilitation in 1965, Seattle-based Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted works with individiuals, families and communities to restore, maintain and enhance the independence and well-being of people with impaired vision, and specializes in working with age-related vision loss. Programs include counseling; safe travel and independent living training; low vision clinic; volunteer services; education, information and referral; assistive technology center; and adaptive aids sales, including an online store with hundreds of products for living with vision loss and secure transactions at www.sightconnection.com

Our organization works at the national level.

Our organization is to some degree run, controlled and represented by disabled people.

We have expertise, or are interested in cooperating with other organizations, in the areas of:

Accessible public transportation.
Assistive devices.
Awareness raising.
Coalition building and networking.
Computers and disability.
Independent Living Skills Training.
Personal assistance.
Recreation and travel.
Self-advocacy.
Travel.
Universal design.

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This entry added: Wednesday 25th August 1999. (record #217) Changed: Tuesday 5th April 2005.