Blind children: give them emotional backing is light for your eyes

Live in eternal darkness or distinguish only some lights and no emotional support leads to be as absent from a society where they are considered different.

Children who have disabilities may feel excluded from society and useless. José Miguel Gómez Montero children psychiatrist explained to children with motor cognitive, visual and physical disabilities, among others, should assess them their integral development and work the emotional, psychological and social part.

Gómez said that these children must be integrated to the family so you have skills and can be socializing with other children, and avoid to develop inferiority complexes or feel excluded or rejected.

Said that if the child with low vision or blind is cured and is allowed an integral development you will find in his adolescence and adulthood a greater social functioning, family, the workplace and society integration, u000ahaving sense of usefulness and availability.

"Recognized also the personal, moral and ethical attributes to live with dignity", expressed.

Professional conduct said that many parents when they have children with a disability are neglected and exclude, and do not seek help, so they are left without social skills.

Condition
agreement with the World Health Organization (who), the most common causes of blindness around the world are cataract, Glaucoma, uveitis, degeneration macular, diabetic retinopathy, racoma and corneal opacity.

According to the surgeon oftalmóloga Yesenia Matos, of the Centre see Kids, low vision is a decrease of visual acuity in both eyes which cannot be corrected with glasses. This condition can occur for conditions in her it cornea, lens or retina, but it can also be hereditary, congenital or acquired.

Argued that the condition of not blind u000aand/or low vision can affect the activities of social interaction when the child does not receive proper training. "It is recommended that these children are both treated by professionals of the conduct," expressed.

Matos cited some optical tools that can be used by people with low vision. "Technology in optical science and advances are available to help patients with vision low as compensatory graduated lenses, lenses, prisms, hand magnifiers, telescopes, filters and dyes as well as also non-optical AIDS as high contrast, special lighting and tiposcopio objects".

Recommendation to parents
oftalmóloga surgeon Yesenia Matos recommended to parents of children with Visual problems they undertake an ophthalmological assessment from the age of three, always and when not submitting any signs before this age.

While the u000apsychiatrist called parents and schools to work early stimulation, the comprehensive and social level, so can thus develop faster skills beyond their limitations.

Only special school
the national education resource centre for the visually impaired "Olga Estrella" is the only educational institution that provides care to children and adolescents with visual impairment, sordo-ceguera and multiple challenges.

Despite being the only school in the country, the deterioration of the physical plant is notable, many areas and classrooms cannot be used due to the poor state they are.

Maria Pastora Reyes, Director of the school, said that the remodeling of the Center asked education authorities since 2007 and while they did the evaluation and budget, everything remains unresolved.

Explained that the Centre of operations emergency (COE) through your body u000ato evaluate physical plant of schools and hospitals, he stressed that the school has weaknesses in case of earthquake. "The school is dilapidated areas totally abandoned and needy", expressed after indicate that refurbishment of educational centres program is not including school.

Rated this as unfortunate reality, it is necessary to provide services to a population that the State has a responsibility to provide an educational response.

Little investment
Hay 660 students enrolled in the Centre, of which more than 50 percent are included in normal schools located in different parts of the country.

Reyes explained that the Center has a team of 27 itinerant teachers who move to different parts of the country in a strategic way to give advice to normal schools to guide the family and teachers of these small. However, claimed that no u000athey have sufficient resources and that often there is no to meet the expenses of travelling teachers.

"You must supply transport and the diet of teachers to go to give the training", he argued.

Budget
Reyes said that the subsidy they receive from the Government for operating costs and maintenance, about 400 thousand pesos a month, is insufficient, since they do not cover costs of equipment and materials that children need this.

"We made a request to be included in the new budget, but we have not yet received a response," said. The Centre receives some donations occasional, of an international institution that supplies them with machines of the Braille system valued at $700 and $35 regular batons.

( )
NO HAY statistics of children disabled
the country currently does not have a specific figure of few children with visual disabilities there is.

According to the u000aCensus national population of 2002, in the country there are approximately 69 thousand people under 18 with a physical or mental disability, of which 5% suffers from blindness in one eye and the 1.6% have it in both eyes. The 16.4% of that population has a disability of mental type.

According to the World Health Organization, worldwide there are approximately 285 million people with visual disabilities, of which 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision.

Claims that 90% of the global burden of visual impairment is concentrated in developing countries and that 80 per cent of the world total of cases of visual impairment can prevent or cure.

In global terms, uncorrected refractive errors are the leading cause of visual impairment, but in low- and middle-income countries, cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness.

Children under the age of 15 years it is estimated that the number of children with u000avisual impairment amounts to 19 million, of which 12 million suffer from it due to refractive errors, undiagnosable and easily correctable. Some 1.4 million children under 15 years suffer from irreversible blindness.

Share this article

Digg it!

del.icio.us

MySpace

Facebook

Fark

Reddit

Newsvine