The report titled “ErISFaVIA-Early intervention services for families with children with vision impairment and additional disabilities project: IO8 policy recommendations and guidelines report” authored by Asst.Prof.Dr.Emine AYYILDIZ from Istanbul Medeniyet University Department of Basic Education and Prof.Dr.Yeşim GÜLEÇ ASLAN from the Department of Special Education as part of the ErISFaVIA project “Early Intervention Services for Families with Children with Vision Impairment and Additional Disabilities”, of which our University is a partner, has been published.
Within the scope of this report, various suggestions were presented to reduce the inequalities experienced by individuals with special needs, the visually impaired and those with additional disabilities. In this context, it was aimed to provide individuals with equal opportunities by providing special education opportunities with an inclusive perspective. In the published guide, various ways were suggested for people with special needs to have a quality, reliable and accessible education.
The ErISFaVIA project “Early Intervention Services for Families with Children with Vision Impairment and Additional Disabilities” is funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme’s Key Action 2- Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices (No: 2019-1-EL01-KA201-062886). The core concept of the ErISFaVIA project is the presence of a critical situation that solved a need that is widely recognized on a global scale and pertains to children with vision impairment and additional impairments (VIAD) or deafblindness (D/B) and their families.
The ErISFaVIA consortium is made up of ten large organizations from six different countries (Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Turkey, Croatia, and Germany). With varying jobs and tasks, all project partners were active in the field of visual impairment with additional impairments or deafblindness. In specific, University of Thessaly (UTH-Coordinating organization), University of Babes Bolyai (UBB), Istanbul Medeniyet University (IMU), AMIMONI/Greece, Syzoi/Greece, ANSGA/Turkey, Mali Dom/Croatia and Blindeninstitut München/Germany, and the schools (St. Barnabas School for the Blind/Cyprus and LSDV-Liceul Special pentru Deficienti de Vedere Cluj/ Romania) composed the consortium of this project. In total, three universities, five non-governmental organizations, and two schools created strong linkages between theory and execution, contributed to the study in order to prepare policy recommendations and develop training programs and the results provided training programs for professionals to increase the effectiveness of early intervention programs for young children with VIAD or D/B.
