Aids & Tools for People
Visually Impaired or Blind
© Money Magic, Inc. 7/14/01
Saturday Daybreak KATV, Chn. 7
Mary Ann Campbell, CFP

The Situation:

You’re losing your vision, or are blind; you have family members or friends who are visually impaired and need assistance being independent with their personal finances.

There are services, aids, and tools to help you and them:

Money Magic Solutions
(Who you gonna call or click…)

DHS, Services for the Blind Division

501-682-5463

DHS takes referrals and offer rehabilitation training in the home, and for jobs. My Father, Joe Briscoe, has macular degeneration. A Services for the Blind representative came to his home, provided closed circuit tv and helped him learn to write his checks with their aids. Their objective is to help people live successfully independently.

Lions World Services for the Blind

501-664-7100

www.lwsb.org

I used to teach in TDL, or techniques of daily living. I taught cooking and enjoyed working with the people and at the Lion’s amazing adult training center.

They shared raised lined checks, templates for writing checks, and talking calculators. Software spreadsheet programs like excel were also recommended.

National Federation of the Blind

410-659-9314

www.nfb.org

Diebold has made a new ATM that is speech accessible. The National Federation for the Blind unveiled it at their recent national convention. The testing has been positive and several banks have ordered the new machines.

They list several aids and tools on their web site.