Programs & Services - General Information
The Louisiana Center for the blind believes in blind people! Our experience has taught us that blindness can be reduced to a mere inconvenience. With proper training and opportunity (and these are important), a blind person can lead a normal, independent and fulfilling life. In fact, thousands of blind people are doing just that! The Louisiana Center for the Blind is "changing what it means to be blind."
The
Louisiana Center for the Blind believes that all blind and visually
impaired individuals are employable; however, without choices
employment doesn't work. Types of work and places of work are all
part of successful employment and our goal is to find that unique
employment situation that fits the individual. Upon successful
completion of training, clients enter the work place highly
qualified for the job of their choice.
Our consultants help parents cope with their child's
visual impairment and help the parents learn that blindness does not
have to limit their child's opportunities. Families also have the
chance to interact with other parents of blind children and with
blind adults through a variety of state and national seminars.
Friendship,
training, fun, growth and interaction between blind chilrdren and
positive blind role models. This innovative summer program for blind
children, grades four through eight, combines hard work and fun
activities to provide a rewarding experience that children cherish.
In addition to learning valuable alternative techniques of
blindness, children will enjoy participating in a wide variety of
exciting activities such as water skiing, camping, bowling, roller
skating, and horseback riding.
The Summer Training and Employment Project (STEP)
Program is designed to introduce blind teenagers to positive blind
role models and to provide participants with summer work experience.
Students learn alternative techniques in blindness and then work
fifteen to twenty hours a week at a local business earning minimum
wage. This unforgetable eight-week summer program is open to high
school students who are seeking to learn valuable skills and build
their resume through work experience.
Just
because your vision is getting worse doesn't mean that you can't
still enjoy life. TLC is designed to help individuals participate
fully in the social and spiritual lives of their community by
teaching them alternative techniques to accomplish daily living
tasks. We have solutions for personal, recreational, and other
activities that you may have given up due to loss of vision and loss
of independence. We come together as a group to discuss and identify
solutions for problems and issues related to vision and create a
network of individuals who have similar issues.