It also consolidates the Rehabilitation Department which was formerly housed in two buildings. Eye exams are provided to Rochester City School District children where families are not covered for vision care through Vision Care For Kids, a joint project with Monroe County School Health Nurses is funded by the United Way and the Daisy Marquie Jones Foundation. The Practice Room has visual aids consumers can try out. These include high intensity lighting, a large key pad telephone, machines that enhance images onto a TV-like screen, and Reachout Radio receivers. Reachout Radio, a partnership with WXXI, is a reading service that can be accessed by a special receiver at specifically designated times.
Volunteers read newspapers, grocery ads, novels, etc.
Two examining rooms have doubled the number of consumers who can be seen and reduces the wait for appointments. Low vision eye exams help consumers find vision aids to enable them to do things they have always done. Low vision aids include magnifiers, different colored lenses for various weather and lighting conditions, telescopic lenses as well as many non-optical aids such as kitchen items, watches, large print cards and books. AST groups learn together and often become friends by providing each other with support. Houses the Braille and professional libraries, audio described videos, large print books, and books on tape.