It is the experience that changes the perspective
Among its goals, the Robert Hollman Foundation nurtures acommitment to share and make available to professionals and territories its knowledge and expertise gained from 45 years of clinical work in the field of childhood visual impairment.
Each year it conducts online and in-person training and in-depth courses at its two Centers for hundreds of students and professionals interested in the world of low vision and blindness.
In addition, it collaborates with Universities, Professional Bodies and Associations, and Sociomedical Companies within numerous courses, through integrative teaching activity modules and workshops conducted directly by FRH professionals.
The past two years have seen an intensification of educational activities that have helped train more than 2,000 students and professionals from all over Italy, conducting two editions of the basic course “The Comprehensive Approach to the Child with Visual Impairment,” and conducting academic courses and courses offered by other organizations and invited lectures.
Even in the type of training provided, the Foundation reproduces its particular working method, which revolves around the synergistic contributions of multidisciplinary teams that care for the child with visual impairment and his or her family throughout the entire caregiving process. Making use, therefore, of all the professional figures necessary to ensure the best development for the blind or visually impaired child, the training is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach in the presentation of theoretical and practical content and in the structuring of the proposed training courses.
In addition, when possible, the theoretical part is to be integrated with a more properly experiential one since the latter, through personal involvement, can enable each participant to understand and process the content more effectively, arriving at a new and more informed professional perspective on visual impairment.
