Our support focuses on providing the tools necessary to assist the children in acquiring the skills they need to gain independence and succeed in their academic training and life. Our program contains assistive technology equipment, educational toys, and adaptive aids to assist with this training. It includes a library equipped with large-print and Braille books, the Bertie and Selig Frank Playroom provides support specifically to infants and toddlers, and a technology room equipped with computers affixed with assistive/adaptive aids.
Vibrant Works supports babies and toddlers who are blind and at risk for visual impairment and their families by offering safe play for learning, education, community connections, and other supportive services.
The program provides high school students with special needs ages 16 to 22 years with vocational training and soft skills needed for employment. Our goal is to help students become more marketable when faced with competitive employment opportunities after graduation from the school system.
This program helps high school students who are vision impaired prepare for future employment.
Training is conducted by Vibrant Works certified employment specialists and staff.
The Emma Freeman College Scholarship Fund was established in 1970 to afford students with vision loss the opportunity to obtain a college education.
Scholarships are awarded annually in the spring and applicable to one year or two semesters.
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Participants will receive take-home resources and have opportunities to participate in specialized workshops focused on the unique needs of blind and at-risk babies and toddlers.
Vocational Rehabilitation Program; Independent Living Rehabilitation Program; Business Enterprises of Texas Program; Transition Program; Blind Children’s Vocational Discovery & Development Program; Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center (CCRC); Blindness Education, Screening & Treatment Program.
Provides corneas and other eye tissue for sight-restoring transplant surgery.
Learn MoreVIA Metropolitan Transit provides a variety of travel options and programs for its customers who have disabilities. Customers who are unable to use the fixed-route bus system because of a disability can be certified to use VIAtrans, VIA’s ADA paratransit transportation service.
Learn MoreThe main goal of the program is focused on the state’s mandated nine areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC).
In addition to these ECC focus areas; the program is expanding to include training with community partners.
