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AGING SERVICES Brenda Turner, Director 2900 Newton Street, NE Washington, DC 20018 (202) 529-8701 Senior Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired The Center for the blind is located at 2900 Newton Street, N.E. It has served hundreds of blind and visually impaired older adults since 1976. This Center is a city wide service that provides a comprehensive package of services all designed to improve the quality of life for the blind and visually impaired. The services include basic skills education and braille, life skills management, health promotion, transportation, recreation, counselling ans case management. The Center was established and funded to address the need of this special population that had been oppressed, discriminated against, and basically detoured out of the mainstream of life. during the mid-70s advocates for the blind and visually impaired became a united and powerful force throughout the nation, which not only brought public attention to the educational neglect suffered by the group, but also brought Federal legislation like the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to remedy such discrimination. other legal precedents established the philosophical and statutory basis for Public Law 94-142. These precedents included the right to an education; the right to an appropriate education; the right to a free education; the right to due process of law; the right to be educated in the least restrictive environment; and the right to non-discriminatory testing and evaluation. Out of this new wave of justice for the blind and visually impaired was born the partnership between D.C. Public Schools, the Greater Washington Urban League SNACC Program and the funding source - the D.C. Office on Aging. the Center, previously located at Logan Community College, can be contacted at (202) 529-8701. Shiloh Nutrition Center for the Hearing Impaired