Sight Loss Champion for Optical and Healthcare Staff and Professionals
My trusty guide dog Zodiac and I will help you make your practice or clinic more accessible and inclusive for patients living with sight loss.
1.1 About this course
1.2 Meet your presenters
1.3 Contents
1.4 Quiz - Sight Loss Facts and Myths
1.5 Pre-course survey question
2.1 Types of Sight Loss
2.2 Common eye conditions
2.3 Effects of sight loss
2.4 Quiz questions
3.1 Mental Ill-health and Visual Impairment
3.2 Quiz questions
4.1 Criteria for certification and registration as severely sight impaired (blind) or sight impaired (partially sighted)
5.1 Overcoming Barriers
5.2 What is Assistive Technology?
6.1 It's time to See Beyond the Eyes
6.2 Podcast and Free Resource Pack
6.3 Case Studies
7.1 Making Clinics and Practices More Accessible
8.1 How to Communicate Effectively
8.2 Quiz - Communicating Effectively
9.1 Zodiac's expert guide to Guide Dogs
9.2 Cane types
9.3 Sighted Guiding Techniques
10.1 The Sight Loss Champion BIG Quiz
10a.1 VRICS CET Exercise
11.1 Take-home Messages
12.1 Resources and Useful Links
12.2 Useful Links download page
13.1 Post-course survey - 2 quick questions
13.2 Whoop whoop!