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Your Health Checkup: Sights For Hope
Episode 12 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Local community health issues and solutions.
Formerly the Center for Vision Loss, the newly-branded Sights for Hope provides a range of social programs for the visually impaired.
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Your Health Checkup is a local public television program presented by PBS39
Your Health Checkup
Your Health Checkup: Sights For Hope
Episode 12 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Formerly the Center for Vision Loss, the newly-branded Sights for Hope provides a range of social programs for the visually impaired.
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Dorothy Montoro is one of w ladies who gather at Sitesr hope, formerly the Center r Vision Loss to Craft.
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Our making my floral arrangement and I don't hae literally and figurativelya good eye for this, she saye Allentown Center gives hera new outlook on life after losing her sight.
I'm the victimf domestic abuse.
I was shot in the face, was shot twice, but the one ony face caused the injury.
I left my prosthetic and my right eye has very minimal visio.
When I look straight aheadI have no center of vision because there was a lot of scarring after the injury.
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The Braille classes, the cooking classes.
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We have skills education programs which include life skills, education, technicl skills, education.
We also do some of the sofr skills that are important n everyday life.
Executive Director Dennis Zeiner says most clients oe had normal sight and now mt relearn many skills with tr vision impairment and weree all about the personal victories for someone.
victory is being able to d the newspaper.
For some it's going to be e to talk to their grandchil, resume whatever it is thats most important to them, whatever independence meanr them.
We're here to help guide te way you can do just about anything you just have to t differently.
Sites for Hope has location Allentown and Stroudsburg r PBS39.
I'm Brittany Sweeney your health checkup is brought o you by the generous supporf Capital Blue Cross more information at Capital Blue

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