Hanah International Foundation

Also for children with a visual limitation play is important. But often the child must be invited not only in a different way but also in various ways. The involvement of the adult is not only encouraging but also often to help to start the playing and to explore the challenges together. Because the child [...]

If you are not familiar with deaf-blindness a first meeting can be quite confusing.  Most of the deaf-blind people are not totally deaf and totally blind; they have some residual vision and/or hearing. We talk about deafblind when there is a combined loss of vision and hearing and neither the vision nor the hearing can [...]

No deafblind person is the same. Not only in the clinical description but also in the individual way of dealing with the consequences of it. Even the way the parents and the family are able to interact and to communicate with a deafblind child makes the differences in communication needs and communication styles. When you [...]

Visual impairment affects the attachment of the child. In children without special needs, in general vision is a very important element in the development of the personal and social relations between the mother and him. A child with a complete vision is able to look into the mother’s face, can follow the actions of the [...]

We are searching for an expert who can advise and support Hanah International on collecting and editing information about visual impairments, focused on parents in the Romanian context. If you are one and you feel comfortable with us, please contact via Romania: 0726473039 The Netherlands: 0622083437 Or mail to: info@hanah-international-communication.org

More than three quarters  of a child’s early learning develops through vision. Children who are born  with, or acquired vision impairments are in greater risk for developmental delays and communicative disorders There for it is important to paz attention to the visual development of the child because an early recognition ot this can lower the [...]