Instituto Helen Keller Rehabilitacion Visual,Escuela para Niños Ciegos

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Project Name: Instituto Helen Keller Rehabilitacion Visual,Escuela para Niños Ciegos
Project Description: Low Vision Services
for Blind / Visually Disabled
People
School
for Blind / Visually Disabled
Children
Integrated Education
for Blind / Visually Disabled
Children
TC for Teachers for the Blind
Location: Argentina, Cordoba
Project Information: This public blind school and low vision rehabilitation centre in Córdoba is run by CBM partner Cooperadora Helen Keller, and serves 268 beneficiaries. 1. Rehabilitation centre for visually impaired, run in cooperation with ULAC/ONCE/CBM, is serving as a low cost pilot project in Argentina. Professional staff has been trained by ONCE Madrid, the Malbran Institute in Buenos Aires and CBM partner VIDI Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2. Very good blind schools with a good integration programme into regular schools. It is also a training centre for teachers of the blind, especially in the fields of early intervention, low vision and multi-deficit. Former director has become the Regional Office's adviser in education and rehabilitation of the blind and visually impaired and is ICEVI's chairperson for Latin America.

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by Country: Argentina
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by Field of Work: Projects for People with Visual Impairment
Training of Staff, Specialists or Volunteers
by Clinical Condition: Low Vision
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