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The ABL Training Center offers training and/or services for individuals who are blind, deaf-blind or visually-impared. These services are designed to maximize an individual's independence and give them the confidence they need to succeed.
Adjustment to Blindness Training - Affiliated Blind of Louisiana offers studends courses that will make it easier to adjust to living blind. Coursework includes: Basic Typing, Home and Personal Management, Orientation and Mobility for clients with or without wheelchairs, Computer training, Other Adaptive equipment and more. Adjustment to Blindness Training also offers Peer counselling, Residential Services, and Supervised Individual Living.
Project Cope - Assisting elderly men or women who are legally blind, totally blind or have a condition that will lead to blindness, Project Cope is there to help. It teaches clients to become more confident and self-sufficient.
Randolph-Sheppard Vending Program - The Vending Facility Program authorized by the Randolph-Sheppard Act provides persons who are blind with remunerative employment and self-support through the operation of vending facilities on federal and other property.
Employment Services - ABL offers an initial Assesment of a new student, job readiness training, job development, job placement and ongoing counseling services where needed.
University Transition Program - This program helps prepare the client to attend college. Working closely with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ( U L ), clients learn their way around campus and become familiar with workings of campus life.
Maison De Lemaire - Named after the founder of ABL, John Lemaire, this program helped to organize funding for subsidized housing for people with disabilities.
Eye Deal Store - The Affiliated Blind of Louisiana Training Center also operates a small retail store which sells items specifically designed to assist individuals with visual impairments.
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