Bundes-Blindenerziehungsinstitut

Additional offers:

• Music: lessons in guitar, piano, drums, flute, trumpet, percussion, choir
• Courses: chess, braille music notation
• Specific training for the blind: orientation and mobility, daily living skills, low vision training, clicksonar
• Sports: physical education, winter sports week, skating, swimming, fun court, climbing, snowboarding, dancing

Boarding school and day care

• Family-like living groups
• Day care groups for the afternoon
• Training in independent living skills
• Support of learning

Centre for resources, that offers

• Supervision for blind or visually impaired students who attend inclusive schooling and their parents and teachers
• Ordering of school books
• Translation of contemporary texts and additional books
• Distributing tactile graphics
• Support of assistive devices
• National conferences for teachers who work with blind or visually impaired students

Medical services/infirmary

• 24h care through medical staffs
• Psychologist available 20h a week
• Neuropsychiatry for children available 5h a week
• Ophthalmologist available 5h a week

Braille Printing Centre

• Public braille library
• Student library in braille and black printing
• Teacher’s library focusing on pedagogy for people with blindness or visual impairment
• Print of books and journals in braille
• Sale of assistive aids
• Centre for the development of learning software with focus on blindness and visual impairment eg. Universal Trainer

Museum

• Founded in 1807 by Johann Wilhelm Klein
• Museum with objects concerning blindness and education for blind people

We are experts in 3D-print:

• Tactile graphics
• Tactile maps
• 3D-printing
• Laser cuter
• Thonet mesh
• We are experienced in how to use tactile objects in the field of pedagogy for the blind and visually impaired.