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Resources for the Blind
- California Council of the Blind
High-Desert Chapter
P.O.Box 3236
Victorville, Ca 92393
- Mobility and Canes
- Lori Schow - Mobility Canes & Mobility Training
- Rolling Start, Inc.
15550 Main Street, C-12
Hesperia, Ca 92345
760-949-7626 (Angie)
Help with canes, technology, resources, filling out and explaining paperwork.
- Transportation
- Victor Valley Transit Authority
Bethany Hagen-Lead Travel Trainer
17150 Smoke Tree St.
Hesperia, Ca 92345
760-995-3571
bhagen@vvta.org
- ADARide.com
19300 S. Hamilton Ave., Suite 120
Gardena, Ca 90248
877-232-7433
Application Required. They come to your house, pick you up and return you home.
- Victor Valley Community Services Council
16692 Mojave Drive
Victorville, Ca
760-243-9646
Transportation and various other services. Ask for Midge Nicosia
- Recreation, Support & Tech
- California Council of the Blind
VV Chapter - Brad Hogarty, President
760-240-4671 for Support & Information
- Lighthouse for the Blind
359 E. Parkcenter Circle S.
San Bernardino, Ca 92408
909-884-3121 - Sandra Wood
Classes, Support, Field Trips
- Braille Institute Library Services
Attn: Library Registration
741 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, Ca 90029-3594
App Required
800-808-2555 for books
- Braille Institute Bus, once a month
Christie-Low Vision Specialist
free Exam & help with Tech.
760-321-1111 in Rancho Mirage
- Los Angeles Public Library
800-808-2555
Call for application, books and equipment.
- Disabled Display Placard www.dmv.ca.gov
- Lions Low Vision Services L.O.V.E. Program
The L.O.V.E. Program, in cooperation with the University Eye Center at Los Angeles and Marshall B. Ketchum University offers complete vision care including such specialties as low vision devices and vision therapy. Patients of the program receive complete vision examinations and prescribed correction and treatment.
Patients receive top quality services from University Eye Center, a teaching clinic staffed by optometrists, ophthalmologists, college interns and a complete office personnel.
The program offered through the center makes available a loaner library of special Low Vision Devices, prescription glasses, contact lenses and vision therapy services. The center has over a hundred years of experience in identifying and solving the diverse problems of patients seen in private and clinical practice.
www.loveprogram.org
- Guide Dogs of the Desert
Provides custom trained guide dogs for the blind, and for those with special
needs, for safe mobility, companionship, and independence.
www.guidedogsofthedesert.org
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Last update: 22 November, 2022
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