Agencies Serving Blind & Partially Sighted People
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Finland
Arla Institute
Puustellinmäki 4-6, Espoo, SF-02600, Finland.
Contact person: Joini Onnela, Principal
Tel: +358 9 511 081
Fax: +258 9 511 08300
Web: www.arlainst.fi
Activities: Government owned vocational training and development centre
offering vocational rehabilitation and training courses for visually impaired
and deafblind people. Training courses for professional developments eg
computer packages. Holiday accommodation.
Last updated: 02/04/2007
Celia - Kirjasto / Celia - Biblioteket
(Celia Library)
PO Box 20, FL-00030, Iiris,
Finland.
Contact person: Marketta Ryoma, Director
Tel: +358 9 2295 2200
Fax: +358 9 2295 2295
Email: info@celialib.fi
Web: www.celialib.fi
Activities: Library service and textbook services. Talking books,
braille books, electronic books and tactile books are stocked.
Last updated: 09/03/2010
Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired
Marjaniementie 74, FIN 00030, Iiris, Finland.
Contact person: Timo Kuoppala
Tel: +358 9 396 041
Fax: +358 9 396 4625
Email: ffvi@nkl.fi; timo.kuoppala@nkl.fi
Web: www.nkl.fi
Activities: The aim of the Federation is to secure the blind and visually impaired an equal status with other Finnish citizens. To achieve this the Federation seeks to improve the capabilities and skills of the visually impaired, while also trying to influence the society at large. Activities includes: providing specialist rehabilitation for children to seniors; providing consulting regarding employment; providing IT training and guidance, import, sales and lending of technical aids and production of braille, large-print and audio materials as well as the transmission of newspapers, magazines and other publications by means of information technology; providing guide dog training; creating opportunities for shared leisure activities and maintaining a strong network of international contacts by projects and development cooperation.
Last updated: 03/03/2010
Finnish Guide Dog School
Siltaniitynkuja 1, FIN-01260, Vantaa, Finland.
Tel: +358 9 2706 771
Fax: +358 9 876 8299
Email: okk@opaskoirakoulu.fi
Web: www.opaskoirakoulu.fi
Activities: The main aim is to raise, train and provide guide dogs for
blind and qualified visually impaired people. Guide Dog School works under
Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired (Näkövammaisten
Keskusliitto ry.) and is a member of The International Federation of Guide
Dog Schools for the Blind.
Last Updated: 02/04/2007
Förbundet Finlands Svenska Synskadade Rf
(Federation of Swedish Speaking Visually Impaired in Finland)
Nylandsgatan 25 A 6, 00120, Helsinki, Finland.
Tel: +358 9 69 62 300
Fax: +358 9 68 02 064
Email: info@fss.fi
Web: www.fss.fi
Activities: Organisation offering services for visually impaired
Swedish speaking Finns, including rehabilitation. Seven local societies
offering leisure activities, information and social contact.
Last updated: 02/04/2007
Jyväskylä Näkövammaisten Koulu
(JNK)
(Jyväskylä School for the Visually Impaired)
PO Box 319, Kukkumäentie 27, Jyväskylä, 40101,
Finland.
Tel: +358 14 3343 100
Fax: +358 14 3343 140
Email: info@jynok.fi
Web: www.jynok.fi
Activities: The school is a state-subsidised national resource centre for learning and development having also a special school unit. We serve children with blindness, low vision and MDVI from pre-school education up to the end of secondary education.
Last updated: 02/04/2010
Retinitis-Yhdistys RY
(Finnish Retinitis Society)
PL 51, 00030 IIRIS, Finland
Tel: +358 9 3960 5800
Fax: +358 9 3960 4345
Email: retinitis@kolumbus.fi
Web: www.kolumbus.fi/retinitis
Activities: The Finnish RP Society strives to act as a link between
people all over Finland with RP. To give information on inherited eye
diseases and to support people with RP to cope with their visual handicap.
To increase public awareness of RP and to protect the interests of RP
patients in social legislation and in cooperation with other handicap
organisations. To support research into the cure of RP.
Last updated: 02/04/2007
Suomen Kuurosokeat Ry
(Finnish Deafblind Association)
PO Box 40, FIN - 00030, Iiris, Finland.
Contact person: Tuija Wetterstrand
Tel: +358 40 7780299
Fax: +358 40 6047477
Email: tiedotus@kuurosokeat.fi
Web: www.kuurosokeat.fi/en
Activities: Regional rehabilitation centres. Promotes and defends
the fundamental and social rights of the deafblind and people with severe
visual and hearing impairments. Throughout the organisation there is a
strong commitment to improving the position of the deafblind in all spheres
of social life. Services are produced at both the local and national level.
All services are designed with a view to the special needs of the deafblind
with respect to communication, mobility and access to information. Organisational
activities include: looking after the interests of deafblind people in
society; observing the development and implementation of legislation;
informing co-operating partners, other organisations and the public about
deafblindness; education co-operation with other organisations; publishing
information; local clubs for recreational activities; education for organisations;
camps and other recreational activities; peer activities and voluntary
work.
Last updated: 03/03/2010
Svenska Skolan för Synskadade
(Swedish School for the Visually Handicapped)
Edelfeltsvagen 13, 00150, Helsingfors, Finland.
Contact person: Maj-Len Heikel, Acting Principal
Tel: +358 9 6689 920
Fax: +358 9 629 362
Web: www.blindskolan.fi
Activities: School, resource centre and boarding house.
Last updated: 02/04/2007