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Your Goal: Independence

Our goal is to provide you with the adaptive skills needed for living independently at home and in the community. In addition to our Vision Rehabilitation Courses, we also offer:

Counseling Services: Tailored to your personal needs and goals. We help you develop self-reliance and confidence in your ability to cope with the loss of vision and the associated challenges.

Employment Training Services Program: Designed to assist individuals who want to enter or reenter the public workforce.

Additional Training: A variety of other life changing classes and training.

Assistive Technology: The use of technology in creating a safe environment, an independent lifestyle, and increased success.

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Vision Rehabilitation Courses

Our Vision Rehabilitation Courses give our clients the life-skills they need to live normal, full and productive lives. Working in conjunction with our other programs, these courses are tailored to the individual needs and goals of the client and help enhance their confidence and ability to perform everyday tasks. San Diego Center for the Blind offers a full schedule of Vision Rehabilitation Courses including:

Exercise

This energizing class sets the tempo for the day by getting students up and moving. The fun-filled exercises are tailored specifically to the needs of vision-impaired individuals and seniors and are designed to help improve circulation, balance and flexibility.

Safety Skills

This class works with the student to teach them basic safety skills to help them navigate through daily life. Topics cover all aspects of daily life from preparing meals in the home to crossing the street safely and getting to class on time.

Independent Living Skills

One of our most popular sessions, we helps individuals learn methods for independently performing familiar tasks. Our professional and caring instructors will work closely with each student to help them master these tasks safely, confidently and efficiently. Tasks include:

Financial management

Cooking and eating

Personal hygiene

Applying toiletries and cosmetics

Handwriting tasks

Home maintenance

and more!

Sensory Awareness

This unique class builds the student's confidence in their fully functioning senses of touch, smell, taste and hearing - all of which can help compensate for their loss of vision. Students learn through hands-on training and class exercises how to use informational clues from their sensory abilities more productively.

Kitchen Skills

Preparing nutritious meals in a safe and efficient manner is the focus of this hands-on course. Students learn adaptive techniques for various cooking tasks, as well as safety skills for using a wide range of utensils and appliances such as a microwave oven, cook top, conventional oven and dishwasher.

Group Counseling

This peer group session puts students together to share experiences, both positive and negative, with each other and compare problem solving skills and solutions to daily obstacles. Through shared experiences and open discussion, students help each other through the tough times and, along the way, make friendships that can last a lifetime.

Resource Information

This course familiarizes students with what types of local, state and national resources are available to persons with vision limitations. Students will learn where to go to find information, what questions to ask and what they will need to take advantage of them.

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