Visual Impairment

On-Line Learning

• Vista
  

• RNIB

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• Resources available locally re sight loss and dual sensory loss

• About sight loss—changing the way we think about blindness.  Fact sheets and general information

Learning Materials

• Hearing  and Sight Loss  Sarah Butler, Age Concern England in co-operation with RNID and RNIB a handbook for professional carers.

• Focus Magazine RNIB re people with learning disabilities and sight loss

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• Understand the ways in which sensory impairment affects older people in the care system, and offers a wide range of ways to support them.

• Understanding about the issues for people with learning difficulties who have sight or dual sensory loss

Training Event

Are you promoting independence and improving lives?

Slight loss is one of the major causes of disability in the UK today.  There are nearly 6,000 blind and partially sighted people registered in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, using YOUR services.

How can you help?

Understanding Visual Impairment – Awareness Training

Upon completion of the course participants will

• Have an insight into the way that barriers, experienced by people with sight loss, can be removed or reduced.

• Be familiar with Vista services, the benefits of registration and rehabilitation

• Understand the prevalence, symptoms and causes and effects of sight and dual sensory loss

• Understand effective and appropriate methods of communication and providing information

• Be aware of safe environmental design, gadgets and aids to daily living

• Be able to implement practical sighted – guiding skills

Both full and half day courses cover the same topics but with the opportunity for more activity based learning on the full day.  To book your place, or discuss alternative events please telephone Sue Allen, Sensory Impairment Trainer, on 0116 249 8819 or email VItraining@vistablind.org.uk. 

Contact details

Lead Officer:                                    

Mark Davis           

Tel. No: 0116 2211707 (39 1707)

E-Mail: Mark.Davis@leicester.gov.uk