Providing Technology and working skills to the blind, visually impaired, and disabled.
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From our Clients and some more Facts:
Our clients are enthusiastic about the level of services they have received from the Entire Board of Directors:
Note that we can not give out names due to confidentiality.
Susan Hipple-Thank you for giving me back my eyesight!
A gentleman had not been able to read in 2 years and desperately needed a CCTV. After he was given one he could not stop reading! He also was able to balance his checkbook after 2 years!
Martha Carter-Has worked in the medical field for many years. She has the knowledge and understanding of the daily struggles of the disabled person.
Sandi Baker-Great Business person! Being disabled herself she understands the clients. Growing up with a Legally Blind parent she has the background in ths field.
Lonnie Novak-Teacher of employability skills, listening skills, and job coaching. She has the knowledge and expertise as a legally blind person.
Deborah Lee Howley-Gives quality care to all of her clients. A real asset.
We want to leave you with some other very important facts from the Washington State Department of Opthlamology:
GENERAL
100 million Americans are visually disabled without corrective lenses (70 million are myopic).
80 million people suffer from potentially blinding eye disease.
33,700,000 visits are made to doctors for eye care each year.
11,400,000 people have severe visual conditions not correctable by glasses.
6,400,000 new cases of eye disease occur each year.
2,800,000 people are visually handicapped from color blindness.
1,100,000 people are legally blind.
650,000 people are hospitalized each year for eye injury or disease.
10 million office visits for corneal problems are made each year.
4,219,000 people have sight impaired by corneal dystrophies.
500,000 cases of herpes are reported each year.
44,000 sight-restoring corneal transplants occur each year.
STRABISMUS
7,500,000 people struggle with strabismus (cross eyes).
5 million people are visually deprived from amblyopia.
2-4% of the population is born with or develop strabismus (the most important cause of visual impairment in children) during their first 6 years of life.
UVEITIS
2,300,000 people suffer inflammatory disorders, such as uveitis, which affects the middle layer of tissue behind the white of the eye (sclera) and causes visual impairment.
30,000 cases of blindness are due to uveitis.
ALMOST ALL BLINDNESS in the United States is the result of common eye diseases. (Less than 4% is the result of injuries.)
