Further more detailed efforts to investigate this important aspect of access to rehabilitation would be warranted. A total of 17 countries replied to the request and have been included here. One reply, from Croatia, was received too late for inclusion in this report. The following abbreviations are used for the countries in this report: AT – Austria; CH Switzerland; CZ Czech Republic; EE Estonia; HU – – – – Hungary; IE Ireland; IS Iceland; KZ Kazakhstan; ME Montenegro; – – – – NL The Netherlands; NO Norway; PL Poland; RO Romania; RS – – – – Serbia; SE Sweden; SK Slovakia, UK United Kingdom. – – – – Footnotes are used to provide details of laws and policies and to qualify the answers given. They are used quite extensively in the first sections because this has been judged to be useful as a source of further information. They are used less extensively in other sections and where it is practical to do so. Where authors gave additional information that applied both to people who are blind and people who are partially sighted, the footnote link is just shown once rather than twice and is shown at the first opportunity. Finally, the terms and definitions used in this report are those that have been adopted by the EBU. It is recognised that terms used to refer to people with visual impairments have a range of different cultural meanings in various countries as do definitions of rehabilitation and other concepts used in the report. The terms and definitions used here may not be the preferred or most respectful ones in every country. Section 1 Law and Policy Question 1 asked: Is there a legal right to habilitation and rehabilitation services in your country? Please describe relevant laws and give links to further information for a) health; b) education, c) employment and d) social services. Answers were given for each section as follows: Health
Further more detailed efforts to investigate this important aspect of access to rehabilitation would be warranted. A total of 17 countries replied to the request and have been included here. One reply, from Croatia, was received too late for inclusion in this report. The following abbreviations are used for the countries in this report: AT – Austria; CH – Switzerland; CZ – Czech Republic; EE – Estonia; HU – Hungary; IE – Ireland; IS – Iceland; KZ – Kazakhstan; ME – Montenegro; NL – The Netherlands; NO – Norway; PL – Poland; RO – Romania; RS – Serbia; SE – Sweden; SK – Slovakia, UK – United Kingdom. Footnotes are used to provide details of laws and policies and to qualify the answers given. They are used quite extensively in the first sections because this has been judged to be useful as a source of further information. They are used less extensively in other sections and where it is practical to do so. Where authors gave additional information that applied both to people who are blind and people who are partially sighted, the footnote link is just shown once rather than twice and is shown at the first opportunity. Finally, the terms and definitions used in this report are those that have been adopted by the EBU. It is recognised that terms used to refer to people with visual impairments have a range of different cultural meanings in various countries as do definitions of rehabilitation and other concepts used in the report. The terms and definitions used here may not be the preferred or most respectful ones in every country. Section 1 Law and Policy Question 1 asked: Is there a legal right to habilitation and rehabilitation services in your country? Please describe relevant laws and give links to further information for a) health; b) education, c) employment and d) social services. Answers were given for each section as follows: Health