Blind Awareness Training
Blind Awareness Training
- Do you need to make your services more accessible to visually impaired people?
- Are you an employer or are you delivering services to the public?
- Are you working with, or caring for, someone with sight loss and want to understand them better?
- daily living requirements
- specific customer requirements
- how to make printed materials accessible
We have two highly experienced trainers delivering the training. Our Outreach Support Manager has 27 years experience of delivering services to people with sight loss and in delivering blind awareness training. Our second trainer has extensive training experience and is also blind. He can therefore speak from personal experience about the practical help required.
What is Blind Awareness Training?
While giving a good introduction to sight loss, each training programme is tailored to the needs of the client. Typically a programme will cover the following:
- The implication of sight loss, what it means in practical terms
- The effects of different eye conditions
- Guiding skills: participants learn to guide and be guided in real situations including crowds, up and down steps, through corridors
- Equipment and services
- available for visually impaired people
- How to help people with guide dogs
- How to help people with canes
How much does it cost?
£60 per individual at our Centre.
£300 per half-day for a group of 12 (negotiable)
There are no hidden costs, such as VAT. Travel is billed back at cost, agreed in advance.
For more information please contact Pat Collett 0102 880 111 or email pcollett@beacon4blind.co.uk
