The Associated Casework for the Dark & Visually Broken (ASB) is a clandestine non-profit alignment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which promotes self-esteem, independence, and freedom in humans who are dark or visually impaired. It provides apprenticeship and training resources, association activity and accessible education, confined as a articulation and apostle for the rights of the dark or visually impaired.
Since 1975, the bureau has been amid in the Robert Morris Building at 919 Walnut Street in Centermost City, Philadelphia, forth with the Regional Library for the Dark and Physically Handicapped of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

History

On November 30, 1983, three agencies – the Information Centermost for the Blind, the Nevil Institute for Rehabilitation and Account and Volunteer Casework for the Dark – alloyed to anatomy Associated Casework for the Dark and Visually Impaired. A birth that began in 1874 with the Pennsylvania Working Home for Dark Men is today the better non-profit alignment in southeastern Pennsylvania confined the dark and visually impaired.

Services

ASB provides a advanced ambit of services:
Rehabilitation: Certified agents acquaint affairs participants in meal preparation, account and autograph braille, keyboard skills, labeling and selecting clothes, and application distinctively acclimatized equipment. Specialists advise safe and able biking techniques with the aid of a pikestaff and hand-held telescopes. Audience apprentice to acclimatize themselves to the association and use accessible transportation, for added independence.
Computer Technology Center: During one-on-one training, audience use computers able with accent and awning enlargements programs. Students apprentice how to browse documents, plan application chat processing and spreadsheets, database applications, and admission the internet.
Specialized services: The Specialized Casework Team offers eighteen abutment groups such as Life Skills, Assertiveness Training, Men’s and Women’s Groups, a Multi-lingual Abutment Group, arcade services, and recreational activities. Abounding of the classes are offered in English and Spanish.
Braille: Since 1929, ASB has been accouterment superior braille in an accomplishment to abutment ability and self-determination. As one of the four better brailling houses in the United States, the Braille Division produces abounding types of printed abstracts such as: books, magazines, textbooks, brochures, manuals, newsletters, allowance forms, job-related materials, coffer statements, and account bills.
Radio Information Centermost for the Blind: RICB is a 24-hour radio account account advertisement throughout the Delaware Valley. The centermost broadcasts on capacity alignment from news, weather, and sports, to problems and treatments, and abundant more. In addition, admirers can apprehend books, magazines television listings, and admired columnists.
Philadelphia Lighthouse of the Blind: The Philadelphia Lighthouse of the Dark was founded in 1945 to accommodate social, cultural, and educational opportunities for dark and visually broken people. Through this program, ASB provides bound allotment to dark and visually broken Philadelphians to accomplish specific claimed needs, such as accepting adaptive aids, or offsetting the costs associated with assertive recreational activities.