Comprehensive Low Vision Services
Comprehensive
Low Vision Services
Unique to Northern Arizona, our wide range of low vision services are designed to help people find the tools and strategies they need to meet their vision challenges and preserve their independence.
People Who Care’s experienced volunteers provide classes, one-on-one appointments and other accommodations that compassionately address both physical and emotional obstacles.
How We Help
People Who Care offers low vision services in three ways: low vision classes, one-on-one low vision rehabilitation appointments, and service accommodations. Simply call our office and ask about the following low vision services:
“Confident Living with Low Vision” Classes
Volunteers host this two-hour course, once per week for six weeks, covering a myriad of topics that affect one’s low-vision lifestyle. They’ll provide in-depth guidance on everything from medical eye conditions and impacts to safety, lighting, mobility and technology.
1:1 Low Vision Rehabilitation Appointments
Schedule up to two hours of time 1:1 with our low vision rehabilitation specialist to identify opportunities to improve your quality of life. Bring a family member or a friend and discuss how to meet the physical and emotional obstacles that low vision imposes.
Service Accommodations
Because most of our Neighbors are older adults and many of them face vision challenges, we integrate low vision accommodations into our technology assistance, home safety assessments and minor home repair programs. This can include:
- Setting up computer and smart phone applications for reading and writing
- Identifying and removing trip hazards in homes
- Recommending lighting strategies
- Installing tactile strips in strategic locations
A Vision to Transform Lives
Meet our low vison rehabilitation specialist, Tom Perski!
Tom Perski is a volunteer and a force of nature who has been breaking low vision barriers his entire life. He has decades of low vision rehabilitation experience as the former Vice President of Chicago Lighthouse, a world-renowned nonprofit that serves the blind and visually impaired.
When Tom meets with his clients, his passion and expertise are particularly effective because he can relate: He lost most of his vision to a rare genetic form of macular degeneration when he was in college. Since then, he has dedicated his life to developing programs and devices for people with impaired vision using an approach that is at once practical and positive.
