Eye Institute, low vision and blind rehabilitation "Josefina C. Bignone"
The Institute of Rehabilitation for Blind People and with Low Vision "Josefina C. de Bignone" provides rehabilitation services for sight-impaired people in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is a dependent institute of the Municipal Direction of Disability and of the Office of Public Health. It was founded in 2001. The institute aims to promote eye health prevent, detect and treat eye diseases.[1]
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The institute helps patients to re-enter society. The Institute hosts an audio library, workshops in Braille, theatre, conversation, writing, gardening, recreation, tourism, ceramic, fabric and lumen (group of voluntary readers).
Individual and group therapy for patients and families is available.
Social workers promote the defence of patient rights, encourage patients to actively participate, reduce social risk and facilitate approvals of disabled status.
The Institute provides education about how to include vision impaired students in school.
The audio library is open to the community. It includes copies of graphic books (support of the work in ink), of audiobooks (support in cassette), of digital audible books (supports in CD's), and publications in Braille.
The library works to convert reading materials into audio format.
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Coordinates: 34°31′42″S 58°28′47″W / 34.5283°S 58.4798°W
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