A device in someone’s hands. The training to master it. And when the training ends, the device stays with them.
In today’s world, digital access is essential. For people with vision loss or combined hearing and vision loss, these everyday tasks require specialized skills and tools, and without them, independence shrinks and isolation grows. Our technology training changes that equation.
Access in Hand is how you fund it. Every gift works the same way, in both of our divisions, at any size.
A braille display, a laptop, a phone: the tool that fits the person and the goal.
Expert instruction to master the device, then to use it at work, at school and at home.
When the training ends, the device goes home with the participant, along with the skill to use it.
Accessibility creates opportunity on the pathway to independence.
Helen Keller Services for the Blind trains professionals who are blind or have low vision in fully remote programs. Every participant receives a loaner computer, set up with screen reading and testing tools and shipped before the first class, so learning can start anywhere. Graduates now work as project managers, administrative analysts and assistive technology instructors.
A multi-year gift from one donor funds those laptops today. Access in Hand opens that same door to every donor.
“Helen Keller Services for the Blind changed my life.”
Anthony, TEAM program graduate, now an account manager at a digital accessibility company
Choose the kind of access that means the most to you. Gifts to Helen Keller Services as a whole are always welcome and go where the need is greatest.
Braille displays, laptops, phones and smart glasses, with the training to master them. When the program ends, the device stays with the participant.
Your gift provides: one learner’s device, their instruction, and the program around both.
Gifts from $[____]
For someone who is DeafBlind, an interpreter’s hands carry every word. ASL and tactile interpreters and Support Service Providers make communication possible in training, on the job and in everyday life.
Your gift provides: the hours of interpreting and support that keep that access in place, so no one misses a word.
Gifts from $[____]
Magnifiers, labelers, talking devices and simple tools for home, with instruction, for individuals adjusting to vision loss at any age.
Your gift provides: the small tools that make a kitchen, a mailbox and a medicine cabinet usable again.
Gifts from $[____]
Technology has transformed what’s possible for people with vision loss and combined hearing and vision loss. A phone now carries a screen reader. Smart glasses and AI tools describe a room, a menu, a street sign. A braille display connects to all of it.
Instructors in both divisions teach the current tools and the ones arriving next, and Helen Keller Services already works with major technology companies, including Apple, so products are tested by the people they are meant to serve.
The device is what you can picture. Independence is what it delivers.
For over a century, Helen Keller Services has empowered individuals who are blind, DeafBlind, or have low vision to achieve their full potential. Through our two divisions we provide comprehensive support, and we transform barriers into opportunities, creating pathways to independence at every stage of life.
The only comprehensive vocational and rehabilitation program in the United States exclusively serving DeafBlind youths and adults, on our Sands Point campus and through 11 regional offices across the country.
Comprehensive programs across the New York metropolitan area, from early childhood through senior years, including Assistive Technology Centers in Brooklyn, Hempstead and Islandia.
One participant’s device and the training to use it. Theirs to keep.
A full class of learners in one program.
One of the three areas for a year, with recognition.
A program carrying your name, or a fund that gives every year.
Every gift covers the device, the training and the program around them. Gifts of any size are welcome, and gifts to Helen Keller Services as a whole go where the need is greatest.
A company can sponsor one of the three areas, contribute equipment and software to our training programs, or test and co-develop accessible tools with our specialists and participants. Every one of these begins with a conversation.
Meet the participants your gift equips.
Their journeys, in their own words.
A yearly report on what your gift made possible.
See training in person, at our centers and on our campus.
Whether you equip one learner or sponsor a whole area, you put access, and with it independence, into someone’s hands. And it stays there.