The Santos Dumont Institute has begun providing services to the public through the Rehabilitation Care and Attention Line for People with Visual Impairment, part of the institution's Specialized Rehabilitation Center (CER ISD). The initiative establishes strategies for guidance, training and rehabilitation of people with visual impairment (blindness and low vision), with the aim of promoting quality of life and educational and social inclusion. The target audience is SUS patients with blindness or low vision. Access to care is through direct referral from an ophthalmologist, with a definitive report of blindness or low vision, or through spontaneous search by scheduling a screening appointment at CER ISD.

Appointments are available on Mondays and Wednesdays, in the morning and afternoon shifts, and on Friday afternoons. On the first visit, the patient must bring the original copies of their ID or birth certificate, SUS card and proof of residence and contact telephone number, documentation required for registration and screening for the service. 

The Care and Attention Line for Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairment will also receive patients with blindness and low vision, aged 0 to 18, from public schools in the municipalities that make up the 7th Health Region of RN (Macaíba, São Gonçalo do Amarante, Parnamirim, Natal, Extremoz), where CER ISD is located, serving daycare centers and school levels from Early Childhood Education to High School. In addition, it will meet internal demands forwarded by other CER ISD care lines.

ISD's educational preceptor, Luzia Guacira dos Santos, emphasizes that the services do not focus on vision rehabilitation, but rather on the visually impaired person, focusing on the autonomy and independence of the user in the environments in which they are inserted. “Within the categories of services offered, the objective is to help people perform their functions at school, at work and in other social spaces”, she explains. 

Just like the other lines of care, Line of Attention and Care in Rehabilitation for People with Visual Impairment It is part of the institutional culture of CER ISD, in which the family is at the center of this care and will act collaboratively to achieve goals that are important for promoting greater participation and social inclusion of People with Visual Impairment.

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Discover the services offered by CER ISD's Line of Attention and Care for Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairment

Essential Stimulation: Set of actions for children aged 0 to 3 years. It aims to develop and enhance, through games, techniques, and other resources, the functions of the child's brain, benefiting the intellect, physique, and affectivity.

Functional Vision Assessment: This is about application of behavioral and practical activities, aimed at analyzing the patient's vision regarding the proposed situations.

Activities of Daily Living: They consist of practices that reinforce the performance of daily life activities, based on the individual capabilities of each patient. They are divided into basic activities, directly related to the care of one's own body, instrumental activities, related to the environment in which one lives, and advanced activities, related to school life, work activities, leisure and socialization. 

Orientation and Mobility: Mainly aimed at blind patients, with a more advanced level of low vision or advanced progressive visual loss. It teaches spatial orientation techniques so that the blind or visually impaired person can move safely and independently through everyday spaces.

Assistive Technology and Accessible Information Laboratory: Initiative designed to facilitate access to learning technological tools for blind and visually impaired patients. The main objective is to develop protagonism and cognitive abilities in the use of technologies, seeking autonomy and inclusion in school and social spaces. 

In addition to these services, the Attention and Care Line for Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairment has the Integrated Training Center for Health and Education, to offer courses, workshops and lectures aimed at the community that uses the services, as well as educators from public schools in the 7th Health Region and professionals from the ISD, with a view to preventing eye diseases and promoting school and social inclusion. It will also offer specific guidance and support, via a support group for family members, caregivers and educators, on changes in the affective-emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects of the user, to the detriment of progressive visual loss and/or blindness.

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Find out how to make an appointment to access the Rehabilitation Attention and Care Line for People with Visual Impairment

Telephone numbers for scheduling: +55 (84) 4042-0044 / +55 (84) 4042-0033

Required documentation: SUS card; Identity document and proof of residence.