BASIC REHABILITATION
Visual rehabilitation
In 1964 prof. dr. Natali Baraga considering the achievements in the field of the psychology, physiology and ophtalmology raises the brave idea that the exploitation of the partial sight will not decrease it and will not cause injury. This was the base on which from almost thirty years now a new tendency is being developed called visual help for children or visual rehabilitation for adults.
This program is intended to visually impaired people involved in the courses for general (primary) rehabilitation and also for people who receive vocational training. Its appearance to a certain extent though will respond to the growing needs of the rehabilitation of the weak eyesight as an integral part of the whole rehabilitation process. The weak –sighted man is usually confronted by the choice to live and function as a blind or as a seeing man. The visual rehabilitation must do the maximum to join him/her and win him/her for the second alternative.
The basic aim of the school program for visual rehabilitation is to achieve through an individual program of proper visual tasks a better using of the weak eyesight responding to the individual needs of the person.
The training in visual rehabilitation should perform the following tasks:
1. It should make the visually impaired people realize their individual abilities in order to use fully their partial eyesight.
2. It should form systems of new and various visual skills on a poly- sensorial base.
3. It should ensure the co-ordination of the ocular analyzer with the others.
4. Through achieving a better visual effectiveness it should co-operate for a more successful using of the weak eyesight in the everyday life and the professional activity.
5. It should make the training in visual rehabilitation co- operative to the building of useful social skills.
Like the mobility, the program for visual rehabilitation is open which means that the beginning and the continuance of the course is not administratively fixed for the course is strictly individual.
Every-day skills | Cooking | Orientation and mobility
Visual rehabilitation | Physical culture
Braille | Computer literacy |