Resource Room and Adaptive Aids

This program introduces a variety of items that help individuals with visual impairments carry out daily tasks.

Losing sight can be as different for people as their fingerprints – even those with the same condition will experience different needs for lighting and other independence aids.

The Lighting samples feature a variety of lighting fixtures and lamps with which our clients with visual impairments can experiment. These can assist in accomplishing different tasks from cooking to reading to writing to personal grooming tasks.

The Resource Room also has a variety of talking devices that can help simplify the mechanics of daily living. Included here are adaptive cooking devices, large print clocks and watches, labeling aids, medical devices, letter-writing and sewing aids, and recreational items.

With funds provided by the Eddy Foundation and Cape Cod 5 Foundation we have created Large Print Resources such as address books, writing paper, Bingo cards, Medical Data Information cards, and check registers to help make life easier for our clients with visual impairments.

The Lending Library serves as a reference source for the sighted community and adults and children with visual impairments as well as their friends and caregivers.

The Independent Reading Center helps clients with visual impairments explore reading resources (such as hand-held magnification, lighting, and text to speech device demonstration models) that will help them with reading tasks without having to ask for assistance from a friend or family member.

And finally, the Labeling Center provides labeling resources like Bump Dots for an individual with a visual impairment to easily and safely identify everyday living tools.

Our Resource Room gives individuals a chance to try these things, as a catalog cannot give hands-on experience. Adaptive aids are expensive, and difficult to 'test drive'. By providing this access, clients can find what works for them. We often allow clients to borrow items to try at home as well. While looking at an actual lamp may be better than looking at a picture, it still doesn't match the experience of trying a device in the room in which it will be used to see if it is safe and effective.

Gallery

 

Table with shelves above displaying an Optelec Clearview Speech, a Cloverbook Pro, computer keyboards and clocks in various colors and other small adaptive aids and devices
Table with shelves above containing large print clocks in various colors, small adaptive devices, telephones, lights, computer keyboards and large button television remotes
Table displaying various writing guides, a large print check register, bump dots, amsler grids and other small miscellaneous items
3 tier brown bookshelf. On the top shelf is a box of white on black large print playing cards, a large print scrabble game box, two black print on yellow large dice, two white print on black large dice, two boxes of jumbo playing cards and 4 jumbo playing cards fanned on a clear plastic playing card holder. On the middle shelf is a large print crossword book on a stand with a large print word search book lying flat underneath it, there is also a large print black print on white bingo cars a box of large print dominos and a black plastic card shuffling box. On the bottom shelf there is an audible white soccer ball, a child's stacking toy with 4 pegs containing colored discs, a rainbow colored soft audible ball, and orange plastic tic tac toe board with large black and white pegs, a package of large print old maid cars and a package of large print go fish cards
5 tier wooden shelf displaying a talking bathroom scale, a large print daily pill container, a magnifier made to clip to pill bottles, a talking prescription system, a magnifier mirror and packages of small plastic containers in different shapes
5 tier shelf displaying kitchen items including a talking microwave, various size and color kitchen times, a cutting board and several cutting protection items, plates, a talking pitcher and various utensils
Shelf displaying a talking pitcher, a talking food scale, a plate with a blue plate bumper attached and a 3 section plate on top of a yellow paper place mat
Shelf displaying 3 large print kitchen timers in white on black, black on white and black on yellow, 2 different styles of stacking plastic measuring cups and a can of green beans with a yellow talking magnet identifier on top
Shelf displaying a reversible black and white cutting board, 2 finger guards for cutting, one cutting glove, oven rack burn protectors and a wooden tool for pulling out oven racks
An oblong black box with color contrasting function buttons in white, red, green and yellow
Table with shelves above displaying an Optelec Clearview Speech, a Cloverbook Pro, computer keyboards and clocks in various colors and other small adaptive aids and devices
Table with shelves above containing large print clocks in various colors, small adaptive devices, telephones, lights, computer keyboards and large button television remotes
Table displaying various writing guides, a large print check register, bump dots, amsler grids and other small miscellaneous items
3 tier brown bookshelf. On the top shelf is a box of white on black large print playing cards, a large print scrabble game box, two black print on yellow large dice, two white print on black large dice, two boxes of jumbo playing cards and 4 jumbo playing cards fanned on a clear plastic playing card holder. On the middle shelf is a large print crossword book on a stand with a large print word search book lying flat underneath it, there is also a large print black print on white bingo cars a box of large print dominos and a black plastic card shuffling box. On the bottom shelf there is an audible white soccer ball, a child's stacking toy with 4 pegs containing colored discs, a rainbow colored soft audible ball, and orange plastic tic tac toe board with large black and white pegs, a package of large print old maid cars and a package of large print go fish cards
5 tier wooden shelf displaying a talking bathroom scale, a large print daily pill container, a magnifier made to clip to pill bottles, a talking prescription system, a magnifier mirror and packages of small plastic containers in different shapes
5 tier shelf displaying kitchen items including a talking microwave, various size and color kitchen times, a cutting board and several cutting protection items, plates, a talking pitcher and various utensils
Shelf displaying a talking pitcher, a talking food scale, a plate with a blue plate bumper attached and a 3 section plate on top of a yellow paper place mat
Shelf displaying 3 large print kitchen timers in white on black, black on white and black on yellow, 2 different styles of stacking plastic measuring cups and a can of green beans with a yellow talking magnet identifier on top
Shelf displaying a reversible black and white cutting board, 2 finger guards for cutting, one cutting glove, oven rack burn protectors and a wooden tool for pulling out oven racks
An oblong black box with color contrasting function buttons in white, red, green and yellow