Escuela de Rehabilitación y Capacitación para Personas con Discapacidad Visual en Bucaramanga, Santander

Abstract

The current degree work consists of the design of a rehabilitation and training school for people with visual impairment in the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga, Santander. A methodology divided by chapters was established, framed mainly under the phases of research, characterization and analysis, to finally generate a proposal, focused on improving the quality of life for people with visual impairment, giving them the opportunity to acquire the necessary skills and means to fully develop in their personal, social and professional dimension. By means of interviews to different representatives of organizations that work in function of the visual impaired; the investigation of referents; the reading and analysis of specialized bibliography, the respective regulations, and of different strategies and theories of the sensory design; the result was a project guided by the principles of universal accessibility and sensory design, which contemplates different spaces that promote and stimulate the autonomous development and the psychological and sensory strengthening of people with visual impairment; the social interaction among users; and the promotion of social and work inclusion processes through the discovery and strengthening of talents and professional skills.