Services
ASB provides a wide range of services:
- Rehabilitation: Certified teachers instruct program participants in meal preparation, reading and writing braille, keyboard skills, labeling and selecting clothes, and using specially adapted equipment. Specialists teach safe and effective travel techniques with the aid of a cane and hand-held telescopes. Clients learn to orient themselves to the community and use public transportation, for increased independence.
- Computer Technology Center: During one-on-one training, clients use computers equipped with speech and screen enlargements programs. Students learn how to scan documents, work using word processing and spreadsheets, database applications, and access the internet.
- Specialized services: The Specialized Services Team offers eighteen support groups such as Life Skills, Assertiveness Training, Men’s and Women’s Groups, a Multi-lingual Support Group, shopping services, and recreational activities. Many of the classes are offered in English and Spanish.
- Braille: Since 1929, ASB has been providing quality braille in an effort to support independence and self-determination. As one of the five largest brailling houses in the United States, the Braille Division produces many types of printed materials such as: books, magazines, textbooks, brochures, manuals, newsletters, insurance forms, job-related materials, bank statements, and utility bills.
- Radio Information Center for the Blind: RICB is a 24-hour radio reading service that is broadcasted throughout the Delaware Valley. The center broadcasts on topics ranging from news, weather, and sports, to problems and treatments, and much more. In addition, listeners can hear books, magazines television listings, and favorite columnists.
- Philadelphia Lighthouse of the Blind: The Philadelphia Lighthouse of the Blind was founded in 1945 to provide social, cultural, and educational opportunities for blind and visually impaired people. Through this program, ASB provides limited funding to blind and visually impaired Philadelphians to fulfill specific personal needs, such as acquiring adaptive aids, or offsetting the costs associated with certain recreational activities.
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“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
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To thee a woman’s services are due.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)