Vision Friends

The aim of the training is to have raised awareness of autism and be able to identify ways your practice could be improved to meet the needs of autistic individuals accessing eye care.

Short introductory course on communicating with people with sight loss. The course offers handy tips for meeting and greeting people with sight loss. This course will help you to explore how and why it is important to communicate effectively. Course will explore attitudes to sight loss and recognise practical issues around sight loss.

This 1-hour training session is to support health and social care staff working within clinical settings to understand and reduce the impact of the clinical environment to meet the needs of people living with sight loss and complex needs and apply the learning to their workplace. This can be undertaken as a single course or in conjunction with the RNIB Improving communication for people with sight loss and complex needs within clinical settings, Inclusive communication course.

This Dementia and Sight Loss eLearning course will provide you with useful information around sight loss and older people including people with Dementia. This course also raises awareness of the importance of accessing eye health care services.

This Employment Professionals course offers practical advice to anyone involved in supporting someone with sight loss to either gain employment or retain their existing job, The course covers topics such as useful facts about sight loss, explores common eye conditions, and explains how assistive technology can help in the workplace, The course also includes basic advice on how to guide people with sight loss, Some additional downloadable resources have also been provided in the form of an employment assessment toolkit, supporting workbooks and information sheet.

In this introductory course you will hear from people with sight loss talking about their personal experience. You will have a better understanding of how you can respond to and support people with sight loss. Loss of sight whether sudden or gradual is a major life event. Each person's experience is different and unique.

Formerly titled “How to Guide People with Sight Loss”. This course will help you feel confident about meeting people who are blind or partially sighted and offering them support in getting around. Everyone is an individual and there are no set rules on how to guide people with sight loss, however the advice given in this course is safe and sensible. The course has a range of activities with different scenarios to cover indoor and outdoor guiding. There are subtitled videos with text transcriptions to demonstrate the different guiding techniques. As with all RNIB Learning, the course is accessible to screen reader users.

This 1-hour training session is to support health and social care staff working within clinical settings to meet the communication needs of people living with sight loss and complex needs and applying the learning to their workplace. This course can be undertaken as a single course or in conjunction with the RNIB Creating an inclusive environment for people with sight loss and complex needs within clinical settings course.

This course introduces you to the impact of traditional, everyday design on people with sight loss. The course covers three key design principles that can improve safety and wayfinding.

The aim of the training is to increase understanding of the natural observations resources for health and social care professionals, highlighting when an eye examination is required when supporting individuals with complex needs.

The aim of the training is to increase understanding of the Pre-Optometrist form for health and social care professionals and raise awareness of person centred and accessible eye care.

The aim of the training is to increase understanding of the causes of sight loss, the impact of sight loss, and ways to reduces its impact.

This training session aims to enhance understanding and awareness of sight loss. It covers the main causes and impact of sight loss, as well as the key principles of accessible communication and inclusive design.

The aim of the training is to increase understanding of the eye examination and what resources can be used for health and social care professionals when supporting individuals with learning disabilities to access eye care.

The aim of the training is to increase awareness of the importance of considering sight loss when supporting individuals with complex needs.

The aim of the training is to increase awareness of the importance of considering sight loss when supporting individuals with complex needs and provide professionals with the knowledge to adapt their practice.

The aim of the training is to increase understanding and awareness of the causes and impact of sight loss for individuals living with dementia.

This 1-hour training session is to support health and social care staff to understand the causes and impact of sight loss for people living with dementia and apply the learning to their workplace.

The aim of the training is to increase awareness of the importance of considering sight loss when supporting individuals with learning disabilities and awareness of the importance of accessing eye care.

This 1-hour training session is for health and social care staff who work with people with Learning Disabilities. It introduces prevalence, effects, and the impact of sight loss and discusses why sight loss can be missed or hidden for people with Learning Disabilities.

The aim of this programme is to help employers and work colleagues gain a greater understanding of sight loss, and the impact it can have on their employees’ working life. The course is in five sections and an optional short course on guiding people with sight loss is also available.

The Vision Friends training programme consists of five 1 hour training sessions across four modules, Understanding sight loss Identifying sight loss Accessing eye care services Creating an inclusive environment (4. Colour and tonal contrast and 4b. Lighting in the home). These four modules are supported by four corresponding sections in the toolkit, which provides additional resources and exercises to help delegates implement learning into practice.

The Vision Friends – Learning Disabilities training course consists of four 1-hour training sessions across 4 modules, Identifying signs of sight loss, Understanding sight loss, Accessing eye care services & Creating an inclusive environment. These four modules are supported by four corresponding sections in the Vision Friends – Learning Disabilities toolkit which provides additional resources and exercises to support delegates implement learning into practice.

The aim of the training is to increase awareness and understanding of the visual hallucinations caused by sight loss, known as Charles Bonnet Syndrome.

A 45 minute fact based webinar to help organisations and individuals understand the facts about sight loss, why they should consider sight loss awareness training and how the training can support them and benefit their organisation.