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EDUCATION CSC holds an annual
“See What’s Possible”
Cleveland Sight Center helps people in Northeast Ohio who workshop in August for
are blind or have low vision realize their full potential through educators who will work
EDUCATION. Clients get the most from their educational
experience by developing the compensatory skills necessary to with students with
advance in the educational programs the student pursues. blindness or low vision
Programs begin at birth and range through the early adult years
and additionally offer support to families and caregivers. in the upcoming

school year.

Summer Youth Work Experience is a summer transitional program for young adults who are blind
or have low vision. It is a five-week residential program providing a paid work experience,
instruction in job readiness and “soft skills,” one-on-one or small group instruction in the areas of
orientation and mobility, computer skills and activities of daily living. For most participants, this
program is his or her first real job and first opportunity to experience independent living.
Expected beneficial outcomes include:

Increased job skills
Creation of a work history
Increased confidence in community
travel
Improved independent living skills
Improved expectation of employment

Cleveland Sight Center has improved the quality of her
life and everyone’s around her. Using vision strategies that
were provided was the missing piece of the puzzle for our family

and her therapists.

- Jennifer, mother of Emma

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