Information for Patients

Early Care Society (CZ version only)
The Early Care Society is an organization that provides services and programs to vulnerable children, children with disabilities, and their families with the aim of eliminating or mitigating the consequences of disability and providing the family, child, and society with the conditions for social inclusion. Through its branches, it primarily provides support and assistance to families in which a child with a visual or combined or other disability has been born.

United Organization of the Blind and Visually Impaired (SONS)
An organization bringing together people with severe visual impairments and providing a wide range of essential services to this target group, such as social activation services, advice on options for compensating for visual impairment and on service providers for visually impaired people, technical advice on choosing aids, including training in their use, development and practice of skills acquired in basic rehabilitation programs (cooking, housework, reading, etc.), training of guide dogs, and more.

Tyfloservis (CZ version only)
The Tyfloservis project helps blind and visually impaired people obtain the necessary information and practical skills that enable them to live more independently and without relying on outside help.

Tyflocentrum (CZ version only)
Directory of companies providing services to visually impaired people in individual regions.

Association of Vision Therapists (CZ version only)
Vision therapy is a set of methods for diagnosing and developing visual functions and skills with the aim of maximizing the use of impaired vision with the help of rehabilitation and compensatory aids and special procedures and techniques for using vision. Vision therapy facilitates the long-term process of developing and maintaining visual abilities for obtaining information from the environment, for communication, education and training, for self-care, spatial orientation and independent movement, and for coping with everyday activities.

Life without an eye (CZ version only)
Important information for patients who have lost an eye for some reason or are faced with the decision to have an eye removed.

Decree No. 277/2004 Coll. (CZ version only)
on determining medical fitness to drive motor vehicles

The list of harmonized codes (CZ versioni only)
used to record conditions and restrictions on driving licenses, professional qualifications of drivers, and other administrative matters is set out in Decree No. 75/2016 Coll.