Lighthouse of Central Florida

Lighthouse of Central Florida

Lighthouse of Central Florida is a non-profit organization that helps people with vision impairment to manage activities of daily living and  offers job training and employment by teaching them different ways to do tasks.

 

Purpose

• The purpose of Lighthouse of Central Florida is to provide individuals  with visual impairment with the interventions required for functional independence.
•  Skills include: physical, some or no  visual skills, tactile, auditory, and cognitive skills

Operation

• This service can be used at home, at school, at work, and in the community to increase independence. If an individual is interested in this service, he or she can go to Lighthouse of Central Florida or call and speak to a representative from Lighthouse.
• This service is available for any population suffering from low vision.

Pros/Cons

• The pro of this service is that people who were sedentary before Lighthouse are more active after they learned to do daily living activities and leisure activities with their vision loss.
• The con of this service is that it doesn’t provide transportation.

Availability

• Lighthouse of Central Florida is located in 215 East New Hampshire St. Orlando, FL 32804 and 421 East Robinson Street Orlando, FL 32801.  You can call (407) 898-2483 to speak to a representative at Lighthouse of Central Florida or go online to www.lighthousecentralflorida.org/ for more information.

Phonic Ear

Phonic Ear

Phonic Ear is a nationwide company that provides sound solutions for individual who has hearing loss. Phonic Ear’s assistive listening devices help individuals with hearing impaired to hear everyday sounds clear. Phonic Ear has many assistive listening devices, to meet the needs of anyone who has hearing impaired. Phonic Ear has listening device for televisions, radio, telephones, mobile telephones, smoke alarms, to hear conversation, etc.


 Purpose

• Phonic Ear provides assistive devices that help individuals who have hearing impaired to participate in conservation, listen to the radio or television, provides alarm notification, speak on the telephone while outdoors or work. These devices improved quality of life for hearing impaired individuals and also increased security as well.
• Skills include: visual, cognitive, and physical.

Operation

• Phonic Ear’s company provides assistive listening devices that are easy to install and use. Customer service is always available to help if a customer needs help to install.
• These assistive listening devices are beneficial for pediatric and geriatric population who has hearing loss and want to hear a conversation, listen to the radio or television and speak on the telephone.

Pros/Cons

• Pros- Phonic Ear provides devices to improve the quality of life for individuals who have hearing loss and make them feel secure. Individuals with hearing impaired are able to enjoy life just like people with normal hearing. Phonic Ear’s assistive listening devices help the user to listen to the television, participate in conversation and speak on the telephone.
• Con- Phonic Ear is Danish owned and their customer service telephone number is international. You probably need a calling card or international minutes to call customer service.

Available

• The Phonic Ear’s assistive listening devices price varies from devices $70.00 to $1324.00. The manufacture of these devices is Phonic Ear. Phonic Ear’s assistive listening devices can be purchase online going to http://www.audiogear.com/ and tying “Phonic Ear” within the searcher box or by calling audiogear at 800-959-4252. You can also contact Phonic Ear at +45 3917- 7101 to speak to a customer service regarding purchasing these devices or email them  at mail@phonicear.com