Resources for Patients
Low Vision Services
Chicago Lighthouse
Comprehensive vision care and social services that improve the quality of life for patients, clients and their families.
1850 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608
312-666-1331
Hadley school for the Blind
700 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL 60093 800-323-4238
Illinois Eye Institute
The Alfred and Sarah Rosenbloom Center on Vision and Aging at the Illinois Eye Institute provides unparalleled care to the aging population and the visually impaired.
3241 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
312-885-6200
Spectrios Institute (formerly Deicke house)
Provides in home eye exams as well as training to optimize visual capabilities to gain independence through technology.
219 East Cole Ave, Wheaton 60187
630-690-7115
MD support
Offers free information and personal assistance for people dealing with macular degeneration and similar retinal diseases.
Products and Assistive Technologies
Independent Living Aids
800-537-2118
American Printing House for the Blind
800-223-1839
Computers for the Blind (CFTB)
Shop Low Vision
800-826-4200
Maxiaids
800-522-6294
Microsoft Accessibility Tutorials
Smart Phone Applications
Blind Square
To navigate outdoors. Using a dedicated speech synthesizer, the app interperts real time GPS data to describe the enviornment and announce points of interest and street intersections as the user travels.
KNFBReader
Enables people to access written information of all types. The user photographs the material-such as a menu or class handout and the apps text to speech function quickly reads it out loud.
Taptapsee
To identify any object by photograph. The user double-taps on the screen to photograph any object and have it analyzed. The voice synthesizer then provides the identification audibly.
Audio Books, Magazines, News and Textbooks
American Printing House for the Blind
800-233-1839
Choice Magazine Listening
Bimonthly Articles, Unabridged
888-724-6423
National Federation of the Blind
News by phone
866-504-7300
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
800-424-8567