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The techniques that enable the visually impaired individuals to find their ways and move with the minimum help or without help are called “independent movement” as a whole. The aim of this education is to establish the harmony of visually impaired individuals with society and their environment, teach them to protect themselves against the dangers, develop their mental maps, give them the ability to move at home and in traffic, enable them to go from one place to another easily and without any danger and develop their ability to move freely within or outside the building with or without the walking stick.

The education refers to the training of visually impaired individuals regarding the meeting of their personal needs in their daily lives. The main topics in this education starts with more basic issues such as eating techniques and making their beds, and continues with the techniques of peeling fruits, ironing, sewing buttons, shoe shining, cleaning, station, shaving, time management and lastly cooking.

The visually impaired are taught to play with clay to develop their hand muscles, increase their finger sensitivities and develop their creativity. This training also helps to develop some concepts such as large-small, and long-short.

Visually impaired individuals are taught how to read and write with Braille Alphabet. This helps to develop communications with their environment. The visually impaired individuals can convey their feelings and ideas to the paper with Braille Alphabet, gain the ability to express themselves and develop themselves through reading.

The Braille Alphabet consists of this dot. This writing system was developed by French Luis Braille in 1825.

In Turkey, there are two Braille publishing houses that publish primary school textbooks and fiction books towards the visually impaired. However, the number of Braille books is very limited.

Our foundation serves all the visually impaired individuals in our country through the CD / books on courses and other issues in the Digital MP3 Library.

Dr. Selim Altınok, who has received our rehabilitation education, speaks about the services.

The primary aim in this training is to develop the concepts of number, length, weight, volume and geometric shapes. The aim is to teach the visually impaired individuals to use the abacus with their fingers in the resolution of the simple mathematical problems encountered by them in the daily life with certain techniques and enable them to reach the accurate and speedy answers. The brain development is supported with the establishment of connections between the finger skills gained and the brain, concentration is increased and contribution is aimed to other basic and vocational applications, laying the groundwork for them. In other words, the aim is to teach the visually impaired individuals basic mathematics to use the abacus in order to solve the numerical problems encountered in the daily life.

The abacus education also enables the visually impaired individuals to make a transition from concrete thinking to abstract thinking.

Every visually impaired should be educated!

The educated visually impaired is no longer blind!