Our Seeing Beyond the Eyes Resource Pack lets eyecare professionals and support staff know where to refer patients or service users with visual impairments for local and national support. Download your free copy at https://www.visualisetrainingandconsultancy.com/seeing-beyond-the-eyes/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visualise/message

The Primary aims of the project are:  1. To increase referrals from optometrists and opticians to local and national sight loss organisations.  2. To increase accessibility and inclusivity across all eye care services for people with or at risk of sight loss.  3. To increase optical sector awareness of local and national support services and corresponding referral pathways for people with or at risk of sight loss.  The project is delivered by Visualise founder Daniel Williams (Man on a...

Dining in the dark - an exercise in raising awareness of vision impairment. Find out more here https://www.visualisetrainingandconsultancy.com/dining-dark-2015-press-release/ and for visual impairment awareness training, please use this link: https://www.visualisetrainingandconsultancy.com/training/visual-impairment-awareness-training/ SHOW MORE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visualise/message

SHOW LESSFor people with a visual impairment, trips to the eye clinic can be far from a comfortable experience. This video looks at the challenges they face and recommends solutions to eyecare professionals.  Daniel Williams, Founder of Visualise Training and Consultancy, asked patients what they think eyecare professionals could do better for patients with sight loss to enhance their experience. Daniel has collated all the replies below to give the true voice of low vision patients sharing...

Asheley only realised he was blind at age 19.   Ashley said he was always  Clumsy and stupid but didn't realise it was due to his vision.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visualise/message

Emma and Alan share their experiences of visiting their opticians in the UK and believe that their cinema provides more support than their opticians. Emma believes that there is a true lack of appropriate training that is given to opticians to empower them to support patients with sight loss.  https://www.visualisetrainingandconsultancy.com/seeing-beyond-the-eyes/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visualise/message

Emma and Alan share there experience of dating. Emma talks about how Alan's blindness has never got in the way of there relationship and how this has been one of her best relationships ever.  www.visualisetrainingandconsultancy.co.uk  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visualise/message

Visualise Trining and consultancy run a sensational dining in the dark event to raise funds for The Prince's Trust.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visualise/message

Daniel Williams, Jayshree Vasani and Peter Black launch the first ever seeing beyond the eyes project, bringing together eye care and sight loss professionals to encourage better working partnerships in order for low vision patients to recieve the service they deserve.  https://www.visualisetrainingandconsultancy.com/seeing-beyond-the-eyes/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visualise/message

Oh no not another trip to the eye clinic from the patient perspective of visiting an eye clinic in the UK. The patient explores how they feel accessing the services when they have a visual impairment.  https://www.visualisetrainingandconsultancy.com/seeing-beyond-the-eyes/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/visualise/message

This podcast with Daniel Williams, Founder of Visualise Training and Consultancy discusses how clinical staff can easily refer patients with visual impairments to support services following their suspected diagnosis. No patient should leave an optician or eye clinic without a referral for non medical support. You can find the resource pack discussed here; https://www.visualisetrainingandconsultancy.com/seeing-beyond-the-eyes/ --- Send in a voice message:...

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