Assessment and Training Center (ATC)

The Assessment and Training Center at the Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired provides training and skills that enable blind and visually impaired people to live, work and compete alongside their sighted peers.  We accomplish that by teaching clients non visual ways to perform everyday tasks, so that regardless of how well they can see at any given time, our clients will learn to function in a way that allows them to stay productive and competitive anytime, anywhere and under any conditions.  After completing the training in the ATC one client said “the ATC gave me my life back. Before I came to the center I would barely leave the house.  Now I go anywhere I want to.”   One of our Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors wrote about one of his clients who just completed the ATC: “I think we will see this young lady soar in her academic and professional career thanks to the start you have given her.”  Former ATC students have eventually gone on to work in all kinds of jobs such as teaching, small engine mechanic, custodian, cashier, restaurant owner, call center representative, receptionist, assistive technology specialist, woodworker and many more.