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Providers of Low Vision & Early Intervention Services, Orientation & Mobility Instruction, Braille Instruction, Technology Training and General Educational Consulting to New York's Hudson Valley Region.

John J Kelly Vision Consulting is a premier educational consulting company incorporated in New York State and committed to offering its customers the finest available training and instructional services in a wide variety of disciplines that have the common goals of access, education and independence for the individual. We offer home, preschool and school based (birth through grade 12) Teachers of the Visually Impaired and Special Education Teachers as well as Low Vision Training, Braille Instruction, Technology Training, Orientation & Mobility Training and Early Intervention services by qualified and licensed educators and consultants. We offer services to children and adults with Vision Impairments as well as other special needs.

During the summer of 2011 we added a new page featuring some excellent documentaries and short films on blindness and vision loss. The films are Do You Dream In Color? A Documentary Film , and Going Blind: Coming Out Of The Dark About Vision Loss . To view the films trailers and links as well as other films of interest concerning children and adults with special needs please click here: Featured Documentaries

New York State licensure of vision rehabilitation professionals:This New York State legislation provides for the licensing of Orientation and Mobility specialists and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists. You may link directly to the NYS assembly website for the bill text at this link: 8576A. For your own copy of the bill in pdf form please link to NYS Licensure Bill 2012 within our documents section on this website. If you would like to view raw video of the recent Lobby Day Press Conference referenceing the Bill held on April 17, 2012 in the NY State Capital please click here.

On October 15 of every year we celebrate White Cane Day and we encourage you to recognize this day as one that celebrates the individual freedoms offered to so many by this tool of independence! Go to a video celebration created and owned by Carol Dallas and Trina Boyd-Pratt at White Cane Day on this website!

During the winter of 2010 the Sunday New York Times discussed the issue of Braille Literacy. You may view this article online at this link <Listening to Braille> or dowload a pdf copy from our site at this link NYT Listening to Braille.pdf

You may also communincate with us and keep up with our latest news by going to our new blog at http://jjkvc.blogspot.com/ or our twitter page at http://twitter.com/jjkvc

Within this site there are many resources that can be downloaded for offline reading and research. Some of these documents require the Adobe pdf reader or Foxit pdf reader, available for free. To obtain the latest version of Adobe reader please click here. To obtain the latest version of Foxit reader please click here.

As you explore our site you will learn more of how we can help you or your children develop the necessary skills to lead more functional and independent lives.

We have been in business since 2005 and offer customers instructional personnel and consultants with more than two decades of experience in the fields of Vision, Special Education, Technology, Orientation & Mobility and Administration. Our personnel are available to provide instructional services through the N.Y. State Department of Health Intervention Program within Orange, Rockland, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess Counties and the Early Disabilities Intervention Services Program at the United States Military Academy, West Point N.Y.

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iPad Accessibility Workshop

JJKVC conducted a workshop at Dominican College on iPad Accessibility during March 2012. For those that would like a copy of the presentation please click here.

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This site is intended for general information only and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment.

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