PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES

The Robert Hollman Foundation dedicates its services to children with severe visual impairment who may have additional disabilities.
The imprint we try to give our work is that every child be treated as globally as possible, an approach that responds to the individual phase of development of each child. We believe that rehabilitation activities are possible only by creating, together with the parents, a good psychological environment for the child, where he or she can express their abilities to the full.
Our goal is to optimize the development of visually impaired children.
Our advice is addressed to each child ‘as a child’, with an inborn spur to grow, learn and widen skills.
Our work is intended as partly preventive, partly therapeutic.
We consider each child unique, that deserves to be followed in its personal growth, step by step, with an approach suitable for its own capabilities.
We intend, by means of early intervention*, to be a support for the parents, accompanying them through the delicate and sometimes arduous process of bringing up their child, offering them constant monitoring, points of reflection, supporting tools and when necessary, direct interventions aimed at the child’s rehabilitation.

*For early intervention we intend the timely guidance and support for the child and its family during the first fundamental stage of the child’s life. We listen with empathy to the new family’s difficulties, offering constant monitoring and ad hoc facilities. This way, we can encourage and strengthen the relationship between the disabled child and its parents.