Range of Services
Listed below is the full range of vision support services available. Please note that availability may depend on your location.
To find out which specific services are offered in your area, learn more about CNIB in Your Community. Professionals who are specially educated to provide vision support services are available to help you.
Registration and Referral: This is the first point of contact for anyone wishing to access CNIB's programs and services. Staff work closely with each individual to identify needs and goals, and make referrals to appropriate resources - either within CNIB or with community agencies.
Assistive Technology Services: Provides information about the availability, selection, use and purchase of devices best suited to individual needs, through demonstration, assessment, training and technical support.
Career and Employment Services: Provides vocational assessments, help individuals explore career interests, develop employment plans, market to potential employers, and investigate job opportunities and accommodations.
Child and Family Services: Provides supportive counselling, service coordination, information, advocacy and programming for children and their families. Early Intervention Services Specialists work with children from birth to school age and their families to assess developmental needs associated with vision loss, taking into consideration additional disabilities, and environmental needs to help schools accommodate students with vision loss.
Computer Training: Provides instruction on how to use current computer programs to access information and communicate independently.
Consumer Products Support: Provides a unique retail experience in a supportive and interactive environment that allows people with vision loss to become familiar with devices prior to purchase.
Counselling: Provides support to people as they adjust to vision loss, or the combined loss of hearing and sight.
Deafblind Services: Provides access to information for people who are deafblind through case management, counselling, referral, literacy programs, intervention services and assistive technology.
Independent Living: Provides life-skills training to help manage the essentials of daily living, with an emphasis on maintaining independence - from safe and effective methods of cooking and doing household tasks such as laundry, to banking, writing and personal care.
Low Vision Services: Provides functional assessments of visual abilities, information and training in the use of low vision devices, and instruction on how to maximize residual vision.
Indoor and Outdoor Travel: Provides instruction on how to move safely around your home, or travelling outside.
Support Services: Provides information and advocacy support for resources available from CNIB as well as resources focusing on social issues such as concessions, housing, finances and leisure pursuits, available from partner community resources.
Support and Self-Help Groups: Client group programs provide a venue to discuss work, home life, activities of daily living, or leisure and community participation. Self-help groups are facilitated by staff and volunteers who may have vision loss.
Note:
In the Province of Quebec, vision rehabilitation services are provided by provincial government funded rehabilitation centers. CNIB-INCA is often the first point of contact for information, referral services and a range of specialized services. Learn more about CNIB services in Quebec.