About our
Self-help organization
We are a self-help organization for the blind and partially sighted. Being personally acquainted with the difficulties of this disability, we can use our experience to form the basis for our group activities. Our aim is to help those concerned to be able to come to terms with their impairment by making life as easy as possible. Bearing this in mind, we arrange the various events according to their personal wishes.
We advise on and inform about:
- Rehabilitation and retraining possibilities
- Services offered by further support centres and institutes
- Aids, appliances and games
- Benefits e.g. carer's allowance, exemption from radio and television licence fees and reduction on public transport
Our activities are financed by the regional government as well as by donations. Please, help us too! Thank you.
Manfred Schuler
Chairman
Tel.: +(43)-0-5572/58 221-37
Fax: +(43)-0-5572/58 221-33
E-mail: buero@vbsv.at
You can take part in or have information about:
- Social events (club outings, summer party and a celebration during the Advent time)
- Card-playing and bowling groups
- Regular meetings for computer buffs as well as other regular group meetings
- Youth group
- Sportsclub for the blind: "Torball, skiing, snowboarding, long distance skiing , athletics"
- Talks
- Exhibitions of aids and appliances
- Lending library of the Austrian Society for the Blind
- Monthly information cassette "Bregenz Aktuell" with local news
- Circulars of the Vorarlberg Society for the Blind and information from the Austrian Society for the Blind
Holidays in Ingruene
For more than 30 years our recreation centre has been a popular place for the blind and partially sighted to spend their holidays. Big events and celebrations take place in our modernly furnished hall. Ingruene is open for excursions and guided tours with opportunities for tasting sessions.
Arnold Berger
Club office and Holiday Centre
Tel.: +(43)-0-05572/58221-37
Fax: +(43)-0-05572/58221-33
E.mail: erholungszentrum@vbsv.at
We organize home visits
Early Intervention
We support and counsel children who are blind, partially blind or who have a multiple disability and their families. Should any eye impairment or blindness be suspected or diagnosed in a baby, you can contact us even in the first weeks after birth. Our work is done in the child's own environment i.e.at home. Early pedagogical support cannot remove any eye disability but the child can be given visual experiences which can be related to his/her specific actions.
We offer:
- Counselling on parenting skills
- Comprehensive pedagogical support for the child
- Cooperation with other specialists (doctors, opticians and other therapists)
- Support for the child's integration
- Advice during school induction
- Extra-curricular pedagogical advice
Mag. Karin Lehninger
Chief adviser
Tel.: +(43)-0-5572/200321-30
Fax: +(43)-0-5572/200321-23
E-mail: buero@sehsam.at
Rehabilitation Centre for Outpatients
Blindness or any kind of visual disability restricts the possible independent movements of the person concerned to a great extent. In the same way, the various actions performed when keeping house, cooking, eating, reading and writing can cause difficulties.
Services we offer:
- Counselling for those concerned, members of their families and qualified personnel
- Orientation and mobility (O & M): ability to move around independently both inside and outside
- Practical skills for everyday life: communication (cuneiform script, use of the telephone) house-hold activities, eating skills, care of clothes and personal hygiene
- Low vision and aids: assessment of low vision, introduction to and selection of magnifying aids, low vision training, training of the correct use of the magnifying aids
Edi Ritter
Person in charge
Tel.: +(43)-0-5572/200321-41
Fax: +(43)-0-5572/200321-23
E-mail: reha@vbsv.at
We offer advice on aids and appliances
Selected aids
- Magnifying aids (magnifying glasses and screen glasses)
- Monocle (e.g. for reading scoreboards and price tags)
- Talking and palpable watches and alarm clocks
- Talking kitchen and bathroom scales
- Device for sorting out colours (washing)
- Drop counter for the exact dosage of medicine
- Talking thermometres and blood pressure gauges
- Touch and walking sticks
- Different games adapted for the partially sighted and blind
Electronic aids
- Reading devices for screens magnify texts and pictures up to 95 times
- Devices for reading texts aloud, except those written by hand
- Talking editions read the contents of the computer screen aloud
- Magnifying software portrays the contents of the screen magnified to any required size
- Braille display presents the contents of the screen in Braille
- Electronic notebooks with voice output and/or Braille
Translation by Florence Rainy
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