QUESTIONNAIRE ROMANIA

EBU Questionnaire Survey on the situation of blind and partially sighted people
across the 27 EU Member States

September 2007

 

Name: RADU SERGIU RUBA

Organisation: Association of the Blind

Country: Romania

e-mail address: anvr@anvr.ro, literanoastra@zappmobile.ro

Telephone number: +70 21 250 65 25
                                               250 66 15
                                               250 05 19


1/ Benefits


1.1. Does your country have any form of benefits system/ allowance for blind or partially sighted people?
Answer Yes End answer


1.2. If yes, is this allowance sufficient or does it need to be increased ?
Answer Needs to be increased End answer


2/ Transport / Mobility

 
2.1. Does your country provide blind and partially sighted people with any form of assistance for access to public transportation?
Answer Yes End answer

2.2. If yes, in what form?
Answer A special card for transportation and the right to travel free with guide. Stops are announced vocally in the subway train and in many buses, but not all so far. End answer

2.2.1. Facilities allowing a better accessibility of public transport for blind and partially sighted people:
Answer Yes End answer

2.2.2. Financial aid:
Answer Yes End answer

2.2.3. If yes, is this assistance available :
At reduced cost. 
Free of charge Answer Yes End answer  
Other (please explain)
Don’t know.
 


2.3. Are there any measures facilitating the mobility of blind of partially sighted people?
Answer Yes End answer

 2.3.1 If yes, are they:

Financing of guide dogs.
Tactile paving.
Provision of auditory means of communication.
Provision of auditory signals at crosswalks. Answer Yes End answer
Other (please explain)
Don’t know.
 

2.4. Concerning accessibility / transport in general, what suggestions for improvement do you have?
 Answer Guide dogs training school,
Tactile paving,
Provision of auditory means of communication End answer


3/ Employment


3.1. Are private companies under any obligation to recruit a certain number of disabled people?
Answer Yes End answer

3.2. Are some jobs reserved in priority for:

3.2.1. Disabled people?
Answer No End answer

3.2.2. Blind or partially sighted people?
Answer No End answer


3.3. Are there any targeted wage subsidies or bonus for employers who recruit blind and partially sighted people?
Bonus.  Answer  Yes End answer
Targeted wage subsidies.
Other (please explain)
Don’t know.


3.4. Does your country have sheltered workshops or any other kind of structure employing only blind and partially sighted people?
Answer  Yes End answer

3.5. Are there any other incentives in your country to facilitate blind and partially sighted people’s employment?
Answer  No  End answer


3.6. What is the situation with regard to the employment of blind and partially sighted women:
Under-employment.
Discrimination in recruitment.
Discrimination in wages.Answer  No End answer
Don’t know

3.7. Concerning employment in general, what kind of suggestion for improvement do you have?
Answer  Improvement and diversification of the vocational educational system, reasonable accommodation of the working place, discrimination elements elimination, better awareness of the employers about the training level skills and abilities of the blind.  End answer



4/ Education


4.1. Does your country have specialized schools for blind of partially sighted children?
Answer  Yes End answer

4.2. Is it possible for blind of partially sighted children to attend mainstream schools?
Answer Yes End answer

4.2.1. If yes, are there any support services for blind and partially sighted children?

Provision of books in Braille. Answer Yes End answer
Provision of Braille writing devices.
Provision of adapted electronic devices.
Support by specially trained teachers.
Other (please explain)
Don’t know.



4.3. Can blind or partially sighted students at university benefit from some form of financial aid to purchase an adapted computer?
Answer No End answer

4.4. With regard to education in general, what kind of suggestions for improvement do you have?
Answer Technical devices provision, smaller specialised schools, parallel existence of the specialised and the mainstreaming schools and the possibility of the students to move between them. Education of the blind initiated in the specials schools in order to have specific skills, serious assessment before the mainstreaming, mainstreaming after the primary or compulsory school, and training of the mainstream teachers working with blind.  End answer



5. REHABILITATION CENTRES FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE


5.1. Does your country have any rehabilitation centre for blind or partially sighted people?
Answer No End answer 

5.2. Concerning rehabilitation centres, what suggestions for improvement do you have?
Increase the number of centres.
Improve existing centres.
Increase the capacity of the centre.
Improve the training of staff (auxiliary nursing staff, special education teacher …)
Modernise the methods of rehabilitation to daily life.
Modernise professional training.
Other (please explain)
Don’t know.


5.3. Have you noted any progress in these areas?
Answer  No  End answer

5.4.2. If no, did you notice a decline in the quality of the rehabilitation measures for blind and partially sighted people?
Yes / No / Don’t know

 

6/ VOCATIONAL TRAINING


6.1. Does your country have a specialized vocational training centre for employed or unemployed blind and partially sighted people?
Answer No End answer

6.2. Can blind or partially sighted employed or unemployed people attend mainstream vocational training centres?
Answer No End answer

6.3. If yes, are there any support services for the blind and partially sighted?
Provision of books in Braille.
Provision of Braille writing devices.
Provision of adapted electronic devices.
Support by specially trained teachers.
Other (please explain).
Don’t know.  Answer Yes End answer

6.4. Have these measures been adopted since your country’s accession to the EU or did they exist before?
Answer Don’t know End answer

6.5. With regard to vocational training in general, what kind of suggestions for improvement do you have?
Answer Up to date vocational training schools, rehabilitation and vocational training centres for adults.  End answer
 


 

7. ACCESSIBILITY OF ICTs


7.1. Is it possible to obtain support for ICTs for blind people of all age categories:
At school
At university
At work.
At home.
What kind of support ? (Please explain)



7.2. Is it possible to obtain support for ICTs for partially sighted people of all age categories ?
At school.
At university.
At work.
At home.
What kind of support ? (Please explain)
 



8/ E-GOVERNMENT

8.1. How do you evaluate the accessibility of public websites (E-government; documents, forum, services, interactive pages, etc.)
Very good.
Good.
Medium.
Bad.
Very bad.
(Please explain):


8.2. Is your government doing anything to make E-government websites accessible to blind and partially sighted people?
 


9/ EU INFLUENCE


9. Do you think that the EU has had a positive influence on the situation of blind and partially sighted people in your country ?

(Please explain):

 


10/ Finally, do you have any expectation with regard to your country’s belonging to the EU?


10. Do you have expectations with regard to:
Employment.                                                         Answer Yes End answer
Education.                                                             Answer Yes End answer
Vocational training.                                              Answer Yes End answer
Rehabilitation centres.                                         Answer Yes End answer                                             
Transport / mobility.                                                                                                
Accessibility of buildings and traffic lanes.        Answer Yes End answer
Access to information (accessibility of ICTs).   Answer Yes End answer
Financial support.                                                 Answer Yes End answer
Gender equality.
Other (please explain)
 

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