Vision Aids

Coconut Telegraph

Lighthouse of Manasota wishes for items to assist their low vision and blind clients as well as their instructors.  Donate the following to help clients: bus passes for SCAT and MCAT, Chrome Books, digital magnifiers, talking watches, talking GPS apps to guide users on foot or bus, iPhones, passes to museums, games for the visually impaired, refreshable braille displays, computer programs for magnification and voice reading, like JAWS by Freedom Scientific, and CCTVs used for low-vision magnification. Donate the following to help instructors: a van to use for Peepers low-vision merchandise, website programming and ad space.

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