The Carroll Center for the Blind, located in Newton, Massachusetts, is a private, non-profit agency which serves persons of all ages who are blind or visually impaired.

We invite you and your family to explore our program offerings at the next Information Day and to check out our Carroll Store on campus for useful adaptive devices that can help make independent living a little easier. Also visit www.carrolltech.org for information on how to take on-line courses in new technology.

Established in 1936, the Center has pioneered innovative methods for blind persons to gain independence in their homes, in class settings, and in their work places. New and evolving technologies, combined with time-tested adaptive methods, individualized instruction, and personalized therapies developed by the Carroll Center staff, have provided thousands of blind and vision impaired persons with diverse opportunities for success and independent living.

In the words of a recent graduate:

“The time I spent at the Carroll Center was not an introduction and initiation into a separate and isolated world of blindness, but education and survival techniques for living in the world as it is.” Read more client testimonials

This section of our website has information on our history, our founder, and our achievements, as well as directions to our facilities, our agency profile, and employment opportunities as well.

Services

The Carroll Center for the Blind is committed to the independence of blind and visually impaired persons of all ages through rehabilitation services, educational support services and employment training, enabling them to achieve self-sufficiency and personal fulfillment.

The staff of The Carroll Center view blindness as a complex disability that poses physical, social, psychological, and economic challenges, which are best addressed through a coordinated inter-disciplinary rehabilitation program designed for the special needs of each client.

Underlying all instruction is the belief that education and rehabilitation are much more than the simple teaching of skills. Rather, they are a long, intensive process of encouraging and enabling those who are blind to construct a meaningful and productive lifestyle, to strengthen their physical and emotional resources, and to accept, intellectually, the realities of their disability – in essence, the blind person learns to cope with blindness as a component of an active fulfilling life.

Guided by these principles, the Carroll Center for the Blind operates nine programs, through which we provide direct service to 2,000 blind persons every year: comprehensive rehabilitation for independent living, computer/vocational training, employment services, youth development, educational services, low vision, international program, community-based mobility (travel) instruction, and outdoor adaptive recreation.