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    Chair of Special Education in the Context of Blindness and Low Vision and Inclusive Education

    Participation of visually impaired people through everyday practical abilities and skills - A scientific foundation (TaFF)

    ► Supported by the Friebe Foundation (German Foundation Centre in the Association of Foundations)
    ► In cooperation with: Blindenhilfswerk Berlin e.V. | Johann-August-Zeune-Schule für Blinde, Berlin | Paul-und-Charlotte-Kniese-Schule, Berlin | Nikolauspflege - Stiftung für blinde und sehbehinderte Menschen, Stuttgart | Blindeninstitutsstiftung, Würzburg | LSZ für Hör- und Sehbildung, Linz (A) | Blindenzentrum St. Raphael, Bozen (I)
    ► Project duration: 10/2021 - 09/2025
    ► Project team members: Ines Matic, Andrea Sijp, Jenny Trees. Employees who have left in the meantime: Ingrid Schmitz.

    The project aims to initiate the integration of subject-specific and subject-didactic competences for practical everyday skills and abilities (AFF) into the teacher training programme for inclusive education teachers specialising in "vision". Based on a scientific foundation, well-founded modules are to be designed and established as an integral part of the new specialisation at the JMU Würzburg for the specialisation in vision. As part of the project, the first two study runs of the modules will then be monitored and optimised at this early stage. Further goals are the development of a subject-specific competence profile in the field of AFF as well as the development and publication of a contemporary textbook that takes up the current understanding of impairment and disability in accordance with the UN CRPD and summarises scientifically validated instruments and methods for creating learning opportunities in AFF. The first concrete relief effects in the provision of learning opportunities in AFF for visually impaired learners can be expected after the first run of the new study programme. This trend should then stabilise in the further course of the programme through regular, annual growth. The project will create a sustainable, neutral and, above all, financially viable opportunity to continue to support visually impaired learners in developing their skills in AFF and thus make a lasting contribution to ensuring their participation.