Cleveland Sight Center

Cleveland Sight Center is a CARF accredited non-profit agency founded in 1906 that provides preventative, educational, rehabilitative, and other services for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, directly serving approximately 10,000 clients annually (in 66 out of Ohio's 88 counties) and many more indirectly through its radio-reading and community outreach programs. In addition to providing educational and rehabilitative services, CSC also offers social and recreational activities for its clients, hosts camping sessions at its summer camp Highbrook Lodge, and has a Low vision Clinic.

More than 100 specially trained staff members, including social workers, optometrists, certified vision rehabilitation therapists, orientation and mobility instructors, occupational therapists, educators, nurses, and other professionals work to help individuals with vision loss to live and work independently.

Although unique services are available for each age group, many activities, especially social and recreational activities, overlap.

The Cleveland Sight Center was founded in 1906 under the name Cleveland Society for the Blind, inspired by an 1898 project at Goodrich House which, among other things, encouraged enrollment of blind and visually impaired individuals in the Cleveland Public School System. In early 1906, with support from the Cleveland Public Library system, Visiting Nursing Association, related charities, area settlement houses, and the American Foundation for the Blind under Robert B. Irwin, the Society for the Blind was established.

In April, 2015, Cuyahoga County Development Director, Larry Benders, became the tenth President and Executive Director of the Cleveland Sight Center. Benders had served as the director of the Cuyahoga County Workforce Investment Board. He had also served as the Director of Marketing for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

The Sight Center's Low Vision Clinic provides structural assessment of a client's vision via a specialized, comprehensive clinical vision examination conducted by a trained optometrist. After the assessment, optometrists provide the client with recommendations for low vision aids (i.e. technology) well-suited to helping the client best utilize his/her remaining vision.

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