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In workshop classes, the visually impaired individuals are taught to make the activities that develop their hand skills and establish brain and finger coordination in suitable business areas.

The hand skills necessary for packaging, assemblage, key making, water installation and macramé knitting to make them productive in business life. During these activities, the interests, skills and needs of the course participants are taken into account.

During the macramé knitting applications, the visually impaired people are taught to make traditional hand-works, flower holder, newspaper holder, bag, lamp shade, belt, and chair.

The aim in computer education is to make the visually impaired individuals to benefit from the rapidly developing technologies, make them more successful in their professional lives through teaching them how to use computer, enable them to develop their professional activities without the help of others and enable them to reach the information resources easily. The course participants are given computer education with the help of Screen Reader Program.

With the help of computer education given in the Rehabilitation Center, the visually impaired individuals get the freedom to reach the information resources and communicate easily with others through Internet.

The aim is to teach the use of digital and manual phone stations and the principles of communicating. Soon, the computer and phone station operator trainings will be combined to give the CALL CENTER CUSTOMER REPRESENTATIVE training, which is one of the leading service sectors in the 21st century.

The first institution that gives the blinds the masseur training in Turkey is the Six Dots Foundation for the Blinds and the Rehabilitation Center. Following the 5.5-month basic education, the visually impaired individuals that are selected by the trainers get one-year masseur training. This is a training program that includes around 1000 hours of theoretical and practical training.

The "Zeki Akkök Massage Training Section" was opened in 1998. The visually impaired individuals that complete the training program successfully are given the SHÇEK / MINISTRY OF EDUCATION approved certificates.

Massage is one of the easiest ways of becoming more fit, reaching a better health level and keeping this level. One of the behaviors that are in us since our birth is to massage our hurting shoulder or relaxing our flexed muscles. We usually need one basic tool to ease our headache, tension, stress and pains: Our hands.

The number of medical studies proving the usefulness of touching, which is the basis of massage, is increasing.

Our need for physical contact is not solely limited with our childhood. Throughout our lives, our need for love, warmness and confidence usually go hand-in-hand with the need for touching.

The aims of the Six Dots Foundation for the Blinds Massage Training Program are;

• To enable the visually impaired young individuals to get a profession after getting a sufficient training in a field that is suitable for them and in which they can be successful.
• To make them be able to sustain their lives and gain their futures.
• To develop their sense of confidence into the life, to gain them earn the position they deserve in society and to enrich their life environments.
• To develop the idea that in service to the people “Helping is helping to oneself.”
• Alongside the practical massage training, give them trainings on physiology, first aid and professional ethics, make them know the human body better and therefore increase their life quality.

Theoretical and practical methods are used in the Massage Training Program. First of all, the human anatomy is taught, through teaching the structure of bones, muscles and nerves and their connections through making them touch the skeleton. The structure and functioning of the organs are taught physiologically. In functional anatomy, the functions, exit and connection points of the muscles that are needed in the massage application are taught both theoretically and practically.

In practice, the information that can be used throughout their lives are also taught alongside the technical information. First aid and professional ethics (deontology) are among these. Through first-aid issues, the students are enabled to be useful both to themselves and the people around them and make the necessary interventions when needed. With the deontology course, the student learns to respect the profession and how to behave in the professional life in the job to be given at the end of the course.

At the end of the 12-month course, the students are tested with theoretical and practical examinations in line with the information they got. If they are successful, they are awarded the Course Completion Certificate. They make their internship in the physical therapy and rehabilitation departments of hospitals, sports clubs and sports centers of the hotels. At the end of the internship, they are assisted to find a job in the same fields.

In the SIX DOTS FOUNDATION FOR THE BLINDS, the classical relaxation massage service is provided, alongside this training, by Specialist Masseurs, to enable the customers to have a health life, in a hygienic and tranquil environment and with very low prices.

Among the 46 visually impaired masseurs that were awarded the certificate so far, 40 of them were employed in hospitals, nursing homes and spas, and 4 were employed in the foundation as deputy masseur trainer.

The foundation has been running several projects to create employment opportunities for the blind course participants and develop their skills in line with the changing conditions of the day. In this regard, the founding member of the foundation MİLLİYET GAZETECİLİK A.Ş started a Pilot activity of RADIO PROGRAM – DJ TRAINING in Kanal D Radio Channel in the June-July-August 2006 term. Following the one-month basic education, the course participants completed the 2-month internship programs successfully and formed their own program demos.