A creative laboratory ‘Neuroculture’ for children who are blind or have low vision opens in St. Petersburg, the NGO website reports.
Children with vision disabilities will be able to learn creativity, communicate, and will engage with psychologists. The laboratory will open at the base of boarding school No. 1 named after K.K. Mainsail. Children from 7 years old, teenagers, and young people under 35 years old will be able to visit it.
The idea of creating a Neuroculture laboratory came to the staff of the Peterfond Educational Projects Development Fund. Activists received a presidential grant for its implementation and will begin work in July this year.
Participants in the laboratory are waiting for group classes on artistic creativity, improvisation and inclusive interaction lessons, interesting meetings where children can communicate, learn to interact with others, do something in a team, and own their emotions. And for the studio work to be as effective as possible, parents of project participants will be connected to it.
Specialists note that vision disabilities entails many other consequences. With congenital or early acquired blindness, children are deprived not only of visual stimuli – they are not as mobile as their healthy peers, but the circle of communication, as a rule, is very narrow. Quite often, with blindness and low vision, neuropsychic disorders are observed. All this inevitably affects relationships with others, the article states.
Laboratory Neuroculture will be implemented with the participation of scientists from the University of ITMO and the Institute of Physiology, named after I.P. Pavlov, psychologists and teachers of Boarding School No. 1, as well as artists, designers, and engineers working in the field of new technologies.
