Independent Living Skills

The Independent Living Skills Program provides individual and group vision rehabilitation to adults and seniors to promote optimal independence in all activities of daily living, and includes assistance with coping and adjustment to vision loss and low vision*.

Participants are provided with training in sensory skills development and the use of adaptive skills and techniques to function independently in their daily life, including medication management, money identification/management, personal management and grooming, meal preparation, home care, fall prevention, safe movement/travel skills, the use of assistive technology, and sewing (making minor repairs by hand).

This program also covers:

• Travel/Movement Skills
• Use of telephones and other communications devices use of writing guides for checks, letters and signature
• Techniques for coping with vision loss
• Information and referral to community resources

* A 5-7 session Adjustment to Vision Loss Program (AVL) is also available at the Lighthouse. The goal of AVL is accepting and adjusting to vision loss and improving self-esteem.

Thank you to our donors!

The Independent Living Skills Program is funded in part by the Department of Blind Services. To meet the demand for the IL training program, we must fundraise, submit grants, and request donations from people in the community. Our IL grantors and sponsors include the Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring, Pasco Aging Network, Publix Super Market Charities, the David and Dorothy Trompeter Endowment Fund, and the United Ways of Pasco and Hernando Counties.

Please enjoy a video from one of our independent living programs.

Independent Living Skills are also taught to younger clients in our babies, children and teen programs. For more formation about Independent Living Skills, please contact the Lighthouse.