The Chicago Lighthouse For People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired

Vision rehabilitation and research: the sandy and rick forsythe center for comprehensive vision care, the bergman institute for psychological support, the pangere partnership for inherited retinal diseases, and the hilton center for prosthetic vision rehabilitation provide comprehensive diagnostic, rehabilitative, psychological, clinical optometric, research and assistive technology services, in the field of low vision and blindness. Services are provided to patients of all ages at the lighthouse and at a number of satellite locations within the chicago land area. Doctors and therapists are specifically trained in the field of low vision.

Programs for children and youth include: the early intervention program, the children's development center, and the youth transitions program, all of which, together, provide services and/or opportunities to children and teens, who are multi-disabled, and/or visually impaired or blind, from birth through young adulthood, as well as to their families.

The instructional materials center for the state of illinois is administered by the chicago lighthouse and funded through the illinois state board of education. This program also receives an in-kind grant from the american printing house for the blind. Independent living services include programs which are designed to maximize our clients' independence in the home, workplace and community at large. Lighthouse employment services/vocational rehabilitation programs provide assistance to people who are blind, low vision, other disabilities or veterans as they prepare for and secure employmentthe forsythe entrepreneurial center provides business startup educational workshops and certification programs for people who are blind or visually impaired who want to turn their product or service idea into a real business.