LOW VISION REHABILITATION UNIT

Low vision is a condition that negatively affects participation in daily life, resulting from visual impairments that cannot be corrected despite refractive and surgical interventions. While visual impairments can affect the development of sensory, motor, cognitive, social and communication skills in children, they can also cause difficulties in children's participation in self-care, play and academic activities. Adults and elderly individuals with low vision may experience difficulties in working life, fulfilling responsibilities related to social roles, and mobility within and outside the home.

In our unit, individual-centered and activity-based ergotherapy and rehabilitation interventions are planned and implemented in conditions that cause low vision such as hereditary retinal dystrophies, retinitis pigmentosa, retinopathy of prematurity, albinism, cortical visual disorders, cerebral palsy, age-related macular degeneration, cataract, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. In intervention programs; From infancy to old age, the following services are provided in order to increase the ability of the individual to use his or her remaining visual level functionally in daily life, productivity and leisure activities:

• Training to increase independence in activities of daily living

• Strategies to increase productivity at home, school and workplace

• Studies to improve visual perception

• Training to increase focus, object tracking and hand-eye coordination

• Training in using optical (telescopic glasses, magnifying glasses) and non-optical (CCTV, special writing and reading tools, aids to facilitate daily living activities, computer programs) low vision aids

• Arrangement of the physical environment with appropriate lighting and contrast

• Safe mobility skills training

• Telehealth applications

•Family Education