THE CENTER FOR THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED12301 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 600
Los Angeles, California 90025
Tel: (310) 458-3501
www.low-vision.org
LaDonna Ringering, Ph.D., President/CEO
The Center for the Partially Sighted provides comprehensive diagnostic and rehabilitation services to severely visually impaired individuals of all ages in order to assist them to live independently within mainstream society. At the Center, a multi-disciplinary team of professionals provides services with expertise in low vision care including low vision optometrists, early childhood educators, parents of children with special needs, psychotherapists, orientation and mobility specialists, and rehabilitation educators. It is the only agency in California to offer a multi-disciplinary program of low vision care specifically for infants and children.
The Atlas Family Foundation provides funding for the Family Resource Project, established in 1999, providing direct service to families of infants and young children with visual impairment including those with multiple disabilities. Many children are not identified early for critical intervention services and some fall through the cracks as they transition from one agency to the next. Many families are simply overwhelmed with the complexity of care and lack of support that is available as they struggle with the everyday challenges of parenting and the added stress of parenting a child with special needs. The goal is to strengthen the family-child relationship and maximize the potential of the visually impaired child. The Center works to prepare the children to enter the best school placement to attain their academic, social, and developmental potential.
Recent AFF grant:
$35,000, August 2009
