[Rehabilitation of visually handicapped persons (author's transl)]

Appropriate measures of rehabilitation are needed not only persons having lost their sight but also by those who have become severely visually handicapped through illness or injury and thereby have difficulties in carrying out their occupation and in everyday life. The way of proceeding depends on the general factors of the country in question and on the special situation of the individual. Besides Medical care retraining is most important in a general and special way. In order to attain these objectives the supply also of technical aids of various character necessary. The person afflicted should be rehabilitated in a complete way, which means he should be re-introduced into employment as well as into the society and his personal sphere of life. The body responsible for carrying the cost, which is not low, of all measures of rehabilitation is determined by the cause of sight loss or of the handicap.