Activities of Daily Living/ Independent Living Skills Training

Research Shows:

Independent Living Skills Training prevents the premature placement of the visually impaired into assisted living facilities and/or nursing homes.
Working-age adults who complete Independent Living Skills Training are more likely to return to gainful employment and often discontinue disability benefits.

Our group sessions are a relaxed yet focused atmosphere featuring “low tech”, common-sense solutions for making life more livable despite visual impairment. As you advance through the sessions you will have an opportunity for individual attention within the class setting or in private sessions if you choose.

The Activities of Daily Living program is alive and well in it svelte, trimmed down form. We reduced from 16 weeks (Tues & Thurs 9:30 – 2:30) to 6 weeks (same time frame) partly because the Adjustment to Blindness portion - which used up 32 hours of those 16 weeks - is now a stand-alone program.

When dealing with the frustrations of visual impairment, it is comforting to be able to spend time with other people with similar eye conditions and share the challenges and the SOLUTIONS for those frustrations.

So what do we actually teach?

Independent Living Skills Training involves learning new techniques for daily living tasks such as:

Handling money
Safely preparing simple meals
Labeling medications
Grooming
Ability to access other resources

Developing or continuing leisure activities and many other topics are also addressed.

If you are dealing with a visual impairment and would like to join one of our Activities of Daily Living Classes please call us today.

Classes Include:

Home Management	Personal Management	Communication Skills
Cooking Pouring Safety Techniques Aids and Appliances Cleaning, etc	Money Identification Labeling & Organizing Grooming & Hygiene Finance management	Telephone Talking Books Handwriting Talking Calculators Check writing, etc