Braille Institute's Community Outreach Program provides adventitiously blinded older adults with opportunities to volunteer in local community agencies, schools, and hospitals after they have completed the institute's Special Education Program. Its students use their newly acquired independence skills in a functional social environment, thus increasing their self-confidence and teaching local agencies more about blindness and the capabilities of blind workers.
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