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Statewide Lions Low Vision Clinic 
The mission of the Low Vision Clinic is to screen low income children who show signs of being low vision and provide them with low vision aids that will help them keep up in school. The Clinic provides low vision screening with a traveling eye doctor and low vision assistive devices (monoculars and magnifiers) to children that cannot purchase the devices.
Portland State Program in Vision
The Visually Impaired Learner License prepares individuals to teach students with visual impairments or blindness from birth to age 21. The focus of the program is to develop those competencies needed by prospective teachers so that they may help their students function with their sighted peers in the least restrictive environment possible.
Oregon Commission for the Blind
For over 50 years, the Oregon Commission for the Blind has been a resource for visually impaired Oregonians, as well as their families, friends, and employers. We have nationally recognized programs and staff that make a difference in people´s lives every day. Their vision is to achieve full inclusion of visually impaired people in society.
Oregon School for the Blind
The Oregon School for the Blind exists to provide educational services and support to students with vision impairments statewide. OSB provides support to the local district by offering a continuum of services in a diverse manner to meet individual needs. The location of the services varies based on the need of the student, the local program and the regional program. The OSB also serves as a central resource to facilitate coordination of services for all students in Oregon with visual impairments. This includes statewide staff development, parent and family information and training, resource and information services and comprehensive assessment including low vision, technology and education media services.
Providing Assistive Technology for Students with Vision Impairments 
Technology plays an important role in the lives of individuals with vision impairments. It must be remembered, though, that assistive technology is not the goal, but only the tool to help students reach a series of lifelong solutions. These tools are part of the overall goal for the individual to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities, and provide access to one's environment and the general education curriculum. Assistive technology can be as simple as a pencil grip or as complex as a computer. It is important to understand the continuum of assistive technology from low technology solutions through high technology solutions.
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