© seeability 2011 access to eye care and vision services for people with learning disabilities

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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

s.kill@seeability.org

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