Olesya Perepechenko is a typhologist and rehabilitator, executive director of the public union "All-Ukrainian League of Organizations of Persons with Visual Disabilities "Modern View".
Vision loss in adulthood is a complex phenomenon that changes the life of a person and his loved ones. It is important to help both parties quickly adapt to life in new conditions.Simple tips and rules can help in everyday life and significantly improve the quality of your life. As paradoxical as it may sound, relatives and friends should reduce the hyperopia of a blind person - it is better to help him express himself and become independent! This elementary advice is difficult to apply, but I assure you that its implementation will determine the fulfillment of your life.
Sometimes relatives underestimate the capabilities of a blind person: they try to protect him from all kinds of household chores, taking all the trouble upon himself. Give the blind an opportunity to express themselves. Practical skills of blind people are formed during the active work of the brain - through thinking, attention and memory. Adaptation of the blind to the world and lifestyle of the sighted is possible only when there is understanding and help from others between them, which promotes independence and freedom.
You can familiarize yourself with the rules for arranging a room in which a blind person lives, with spatial orientation skills, the use of a white cane, devices for cooking, useful applications, with the rules for accompanying blind people in transport and premises in A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR PEOPLE, CIVILIAN AND MILITARY, WHO HAVE RECEIVED DISABILITIES AS A RESULT OF WAR, created with the support of European Union in Ukraine and and International Renaissance Foundation.
To meet the needs of people with different nosologies, versions with 12 and 16 fonts and the corresponding color scheme were additionally created.