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Causes: Blind & Visually Impaired Centers, Child Day Care, Children & Youth, Disabilities, Education, Human Services, Special Education
Mission: The mission of dallas services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.
Programs: Education and advocacy: early education of handicapped and typically developing children, child development, special education, parental training to maximize learning of children with visual impairments and other special needs. Our partnership with dallas county child care assistance program provides tuition support, enabling families working toward self-sufficiency access to quality child care. Low vision clinic: examinations for patients whose vision is not correctable to normal, training for low vision aids including loaner aids, consultations and social services, eye exams and glasses for low-income school-aged children. With help from local area foundations, dallas services was able to provide free complete eye exams and eye glasses to 1,473 low income children and adults. We were also able to add an additional full-time optometrist, helping increase needed access to vision health care for underserved individuals.