What does Visio offer?
Opportunities for people with visual impairment
Rehabilitation
Having a visual disability does not necessarily mean being dependent. A lot can still be achieved by acquiring skills and using other senses. Visio supports and counsels partially sighted and blind people in this sometimes difficult process. The basic approach is to live as independently as possible. Professional advice about disability assistance products and practical training is part of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation can take place at home or in a Visio rehabilitation centre.
For intensive rehabilitation in an internal ward, you can stay at Visio Het Loo Erf in Apeldoorn (information in Dutch).
Rehabilitation at Visio
Even with having a visual disability, you can still function independently. Visio supports and counsels you in relearning to use your capabilities and in acquiring skills. This could apply to every day activities, such as getting dressed, making coffee, cleaning, as well as skills in the area of mobility, free-time spending, education, paid or voluntary work. Rehabilitation can take place at home, in one of our facilities, or for a temporary internal stay, at Visio Het Loo Erf in Apeldoorn.
Information and disability assistance products
Visio provides advice about disability assistance products and informs you about various subjects in the area of blindness and partial sightness. There are several ways for you to become acquainted with Visio. You can visit – no obligations attached – during our open consultation hours or come for an information visit by making an appointment
Residential & Day Care
Residential care
A visual disability can have far-reaching consequences. Often it entails adaptations at home and in the direct living environment. Sometimes it is better to move temporarily or permanently to an assisted living environment. Visio offers persons with visual and perhaps other related disabilities various accommodations for living, boarding and working. There are various types of sensible day care activities, naturally adapted to the individual wishes and possibilities of the client.
Day care activities
At most of the Visio locations, clients can participate in various day care activities. Certain activity groups are oriented to work while others occupy the clients with games and various types of experiences. The facilities are designed to enable the clients to get around in them as much as possible on their own.
Education
Our motto "perspective for every child" indicates that we want to support every child or young person with a visual impairment, with all their possibilities, limitations and talents, in the preparation for the future. Visio education provides students with a visual impairment and students with multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI) all the necessary support, help and tools with the aim that they – as a child, young person and (in their future life) as a adult – appropriate to their abilities:
go through life as independently, self-reliantly and autonomously as possible
fully participate in an ever-changing society
approach the world as a global citizen
Our ambition: the best education and the best guidance
Visio education wants to translate the motto into the best possible education and the best possible guidance for students with a visual impairment. We focuse on qualification, personal development and participation, to encourage every student to develop to the maximum of their abilities on every level. Personal and self-development and successful participation in society of our students are subjects in which we explicitly distinguish ourselves.
Our vision on learning
Learning and development takes place as much as possible in the middle of society on the basis of a modern pedagogical approach, flexible, appropriate and based on a strong belief in the development potential of all students. Therefore Visio education follows the principle: "Ordinary if possible, special when needed".
In addition to general cognitive skills, social, emotional and life organizing skills are very important for blind, partially sighted and MDVI students. With challenging didactic strategies and the student always as starting point, we aim to prepare the students as optimally as possible for a place in society. We contribute to the development of students' self-awareness, with a realistic self-image, self-confidence, ownership and autonomy.