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Low Vision Services
Individual assessment, advice and training to assist people to make the most of their remaining vision using lighting, contrast and magnification to help with everyday tasks such as reading and writing.

Independent Living Services
Provide assistance with daily living skills such as cooking and handling money. Vision Australia also provides orientation and mobility training, recreation information and counselling as well as peer support and social programs.

Employment Services
Services are available to help people find and keep a job or achieve a promotion. They also assist people to settle into a new role and modify their workplace to suit individual needs.

Children's Services
A range of programs to facilitate each child's development, access to education and independence through their life stages.

Information and Library Services
Information and recreational reading in accessible formats including braille, audio and electronic formats for people who have difficulty reading printed material. Books, magazines, newspapers and audio described videos are circulated through the mail. Access to electronic journals, books and other material is provided via the Internet or over the standard telephone.

They also transcribe printed material into accessible formats such as braille, audio, electronic and large print.

Equipment Solutions
They sell, demonstrate and advise on equipment that helps people of all ages to manage daily activities independently.

Technology and Training Solutions
Vision Australia assesses technology requirements in a person's home, school or workplace in order to recommend equipment or strategies to meet their individual needs.

We also provide training in keyboarding skills, adaptive technology and braille.

Recreation
Vision Australia offers advice about adapting activities so people can continue enjoying their current hobbies and pastimes or take up a new recreational pursuit.

Deafblind Services
We offer specialist services for people who are deafblind, providing individual assessment, advice and intervention to enhance their level of community participation and independence.

Vision Australia Radio
RPH stations provide news, information and entertainment for people unable to read standard print, through a network of eight community radio stations across Melbourne, regional Victoria and southern New South Wales.

Audio Description
The service includes the narration of visual aspects theatre productions, tours, television dramas and videos and DVDs. More information on our audio desription services.

Accessible Information Solutions
Advice and consultancy on accessible print materials and production of alternative formats like Braille, audio and electronic text as well as large print for business, government and community organisations.

Community Education
A range of community education programs and online resources.

Training Courses
A range of training and education programs to benefit people who are blind or vision impaired or those who support and/or teach people who are blind or vision impaired. Some of these programs are accredited.

Access Advice
Information and advice to minimise the barriers which people who are blind or vision impaired face when participating in all aspects of their life.

Vision Information Line
Vision Australia offers an Australia wide free service for anyone with questions about vision impairment, blindness and related issues.