BVA and Vision Rehabilitation Commemorations
This week, June 10-16, is Vision Rehabilitation Week. Three weeks from now the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Blind Rehabilitation Service (BRS) will commemorate 76 years of residential programs beginning with the original dedication of the Hines Blind Rehabilitation Center (BRC) on July 4, 1948. Unfortunately, fewer than 5 percent of Americans who could benefit from vision rehabilitation programs currently take advantage of them. For the more than a million veterans with blindness or low […]