Resources for Westchester Residents with Low or Declining Vision
What is WLS VisionLabs?
Connect with Westchester County services
- Learn about home services, training programs, and other benefits available to you.
- Learn about how you can receive free audio books by mail through the Talking Books and Braille Library.
Reading for a lifetime from your home
- Learn how to access ebooks and audiobooks with your library card.
- Learn about technologies and workarounds to remain independent at home.
Reading for a lifetime at the library (coming 2021)
- Learn to use handheld and desktop magnifiers to enlarge printed text, and handwriting. Color control and text-to-speech technology will allow you to more easily read personal items and library items.
- Learn to use magnifying software on a library computer.
Check out past workshops!
12/7 - Serving Library Patrons with Vision Impairments
8/17 - NYS Commission for the Blind and VISIONS
Services for Westchester residents living with blindness and visual impairment.
6/18 - NYS Talking Book and Braille Library
Receive audio and braille books and magazines, and the necessary playback equipment.
Featured Resource:
Visions Center on Aging
Telephone Classes and Support Groups
Join classes focused on…
- Fitness
- Tech
- The arts
Join a social support group for…
- Those who are newly experiencing vision loss
- Women
- Men
And so much more!
For more information on how to participate in telephone classes or to request home delivered meals please leave a message for Diana Cruz at 646-486-4444 ext 215. Please leave your name and number and someone will return your call promptly.
Previously Featured Resources:
Tele-Support Group – Coping with Vision Loss
The Lighthouse Guild is hosting an adult tele-support group every other Wednesday, at 2 pm EDT. Register at lighthouseguild.org/adult-tele or call 212-769-7833. Email GerraL@lighthouseguild.org for more information.
VisionLabs is a project of the Westchester Library System, paid for in part through a grant from the Field Hall Foundation.