| Children's
Rehabilitation Centre
The Children's
Rehabilitation Centre has been developed to meet the specialized and varied needs
of children (up to 15 years of age) with visual impairment and additional disabilities.
After an initial diagnosis of the extent of disability, the child may be referred
from the out patient department to the Meera and L B Deshpande Centre for Sight
Enhancement or the Dr P R K Prasad Centre for Rehabilitation of Blind and Visually
Impaired. Here the child's vision is evaluated and devices prescribed for making
the most of his/her visual abilities.
In addition to the services
provided to adults by the two centres, the Children's Rehabilitation Centre offers
age-appropriate counselling to enable children to cope with regular schoolwork
and home situations. Depending upon the child's age and his/her non-visual capacities,
an individualized rehabilitation programme is designed and implemented.
For more information see
Rehabilitation for children and their parents
As
with medical intervention, and the prescription of low vision devices, the earlier
a child (or adult) enters a rehabilitation programme the better the chances of
coping with his/her disabilities, and being integrated into mainstream education.
For very young children who are at the most crucial stage for rehabilitation,
LVPEI has developed the Early Intervention Programme.
The programme has
attracted national and international interest amongst eye care and rehabilitation
professionals for two reasons: - Early
intervention is still not commonly used as a strategy in eye care institutes.
LVPEI provides an effective model of early intervention for other institutes to
adopt.
- Our rehabilitation centres
follow a sustained strategy of research and development of new techniques so that
the programmes are continually evolving, remaining at the forefront of new developments
in eye care.
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