Visual disability involves significant life impacts for individuals at any age because vision is tied to essential functions like motion and orientation. The age of onset, the extent of disability, the conditions surrounding vision loss, whether there are additional disabilities, and potentially the individual's gender, can significantly affect their mobility. Consequently, it is deemed necessary for improving the physical condition, self-confidence, and quality of life of affected individuals to participate in specially designed intervention programs.
However, sometimes the implementation of these specific educational intervention programs is hindered by various obstacles. It has been observed that many specialists and scientific personnel lack all the necessary knowledge to approach a person with a vision disability effectively, whether in educational or workplace environments. A characteristic example is the cognitive representation of a space.
The Accessibility Support Academy, through experienced scientific personnel from various disciplines such as social workers, special educators, adult educators, and orientation and mobility trainers, develops, organizes, implements, and evaluates educational programs for visual disabilities, contributing to the equal and independent living of individuals with visual disabilities.