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Access to eye care and vision services for people with learning disabilities
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About SeeAbility
• Charity set up in 1799 as Royal School for the Blind
• Housing and support services
• Advisory Services
• www.seeability.org
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Barriers throughout the eye care journey
• Eye test = eye health and vision• Assumptions about the person • Concerns about costs • Eye tests – communication, information in
and out, testing methods • Wearing glasses • Eye surgery • Support
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• What is functional vision? • A tool for carers and supporters • Easy to use • Record information about how someone
uses their vision • FVA tool is at www.seeability.org
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Eye Tests every 2 years!
• Telling the optometrist about me • Feedback from the optometrist • Accessible testing methods • Optometrist and optician database • LOCSU eye care pathway for adults with
learning disabilities
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Wearing Glasses
• Easy read information about wearing glasses, choosing glasses, getting used to glasses and looking after them
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Eye conditions and surgery
• Cataracts, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy
• Eye Surgery Support Plan
• Consent and Capacity • Eye Clinic feedback form
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Making Reasonable Adjustments to Eye Care Services for People
with Learning Disabilities
• Pathways for people with a learning disability and link people in eye clinics
• Acute LD Liaison Nurses, Health Facilitators and Eye Clinic Liaison Officers
• See IHaL website
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What can you do?
• Offer support and resources to people with learning disabilities
• Link up with other professionals
• Raise awareness within learning disability services
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SeeAbility’s on-line resources
• www.seeability/myeyecare
easy read information for people with learning disabilities
• www.seeability.org/myeyecare_hub for carers and professionals
• Our information is free to download!
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Keep in touch!
Stephen Kill
Eye Care and Vision Manager South
07738 040307
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