Sight Loss Awareness Training for Families, Friends and Carers
Our Sight Loss Awareness sessions enable you to build techniques to support your family, friends and carers that are living with sight loss. The sessions are informal, interactive and fun with plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.
The sessions will cover the following topics:
- Barriers to independence for people with sight loss – What are the barriers that people face at home, at work and in the community?
- Looking at and using some of the tech solutions available – How can people with visual impairments use every day tech? We also look at some of the more specialised assistive technology
- The emotional consequences of sight loss – How does a person feel when they lose their sight?
- Common eye conditions – We look at eight of the most common sight loss conditions (using our amazing new AR headset simulators!) and the treatments available
- Communication skills – Can we use the word ‘see’? How do we know if a person with sight loss wants help? Why are there so many different canes?
- Certificate of Visual Impairment (CVI) and the statutory response – What happens after a person is diagnosed with sight loss
- The benefits of registration – Why we recommend registration and the benefits it can unlock
- Practical guiding methods with blindfolds – Gain the skills to guide someone safely
- My Sight Notts’ services and the referral process – How we are supporting people with visual impairments and how they can refer to us
- Where to go for more information
The sessions are free to family, friends and carers. They last approximately three hours and are delivered on a Saturday morning.
If you would like more information or to book onto an awareness session, please contact: Emma Lucas, Services Manager on the details below.
Telephone: 0115 970 6806
Email: emmal@mysightnotts.org.uk.
