BASIC REHABILITATION
Every-day skills
This curriculum is designed for blind and partially sighted people, above 18 years old. The aim of the program is the overcoming of psychological barriers, restoration of previous skills and the acquiring of new ones, assisting coping with the changed life situation in the conditions of damaged or missing eye-sight. The acquired specific skills facilitate the activities from the every-day life of the visually impaired people. The included topics are selectable. The training in main cognitive skills is designed for clients, who have lost their eye-sight while they were children/adolescents or were born blind and who have to form adequate notions for the objects from the surrounding reality, becoming acquainted with scale models of natural objects from different areas of life.
The diagnosis of the level of the different types of useful skills is made by means of check-lists, interviews, observations and practical examinations. After diagnosing the exit level, depending on the needs and the wish of the client, an individual rehabilitation program is prepared. The classes in useful skills are individually held. Group classes are held when some topics require this to the aim of forming positive motives in the clients for training in useful skills. The main methods in group classes are discussion, conversation and consultation.
The duration of the training of each client depends on his specific rehabilitation needs, his level and speed of training.
Every-day skills | Cooking | Orientation and mobility
Visual rehabilitation | Physical culture
Braille | Computer literacy |