Eye Info

Information for eyecare professionals

Summary: Resources and training for people working in the eye health profession.

• Training
• Events and conferences
• Publications
• People with learning disabilities and a sight problem

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Find out about the UK Vision Strategy and what it means for the way you work.

Training

• Mobility education for children who are blind and partially sighted - 26 November - Liverpool, or 6 March - Birmingham
• Visual conditions and ethnicity: focus on children and families – 28 November – Birmingham, or 28 January - Bristol.
• Bringing the distance closer: using distance low vision aids – 7 January, London
• Nystagmus: implications and management - 16 January, Birmingham.
• Eye Clinic Support Studies – professionally accredited course leading to a City University qualification aimed at staff working in eyecare, social and voluntary sectors. 27-30 January 2009 -Birmingham. Apply now!
• Introduction to Low Vision Therapy course - 29-30 January, Liverpool
• Mobility for children with visual impairment and physical disabilities, including wheelchair users – 5 February, London
• Focus on foundation: including children with sight loss in early years settings – 9 February - Birmingham, 16 March - London, or 25 March - Liverpool
• Working with the VI Journal: a day focusing on the Early Support Developmental Journal for babies and children with visual impairment - 25 February, Leicester
• Sensory integration for children and young people who are blind or partially sighted – 27 February, London
• Degenerative visual conditions and adventitious sight loss: medical, educational and emotional factors - 11 March - London.
• Strategies to identify and teach children with impairment of vision due to damage to the brain – 20 March - Liverpool.
• Health and social care short courses – indispensable for care staff, managers, optometrists, rehabilitation workers, staff from social services, housing and voluntary sector agencies, as well as specific education and health professionals.
• Children’s services short courses – our portfolio of courses includes sessions appropriate for eye health professionals and other professionals working in health and social care including health visitors, psychologists and therapists.

Events and conferences

• Older people and sight loss seminar: 25 November – Birmingham.
• Sight loss and additional health conditions seminar: 2 December – Birmingham, 20 January – Bristol, 4 March – Liverpool, or 17 March – Leeds.
• Eye clinic liaison workshop / networking day: dates for 2009 to be announced.
• For additional events and conferences - see our events noticeboard.

Publications

• Patient Focus is for staff working in a medical or therapeutic setting.
• Our guides to eye conditions are designed so patients can understand more about their eye condition. These can be printed from the website. Copies of the publications in our Understanding series can be ordered from our online shop.
• NB magazine is essential reading for sight loss and eye health professionals. Published monthly, it keeps you in touch with the latest developments in eye health, social care and policy.
• Insight magazine - includes regular features on eye health such as spotlights on certain conditions and reports from eye health professionals working with children.
• Books for professionals - keeps you informed about RNIB publications and titles from specialist publishers around the world.

People with learning disabilities and a sight problem

• RNIB's Visual Impairment and Learning Disability Services (VILD) offer support and training for professionals working with people who have learning disabilities and sight problems.
• Look Up - an information service which aims to transform the quality of eye care for the 1.5 million people in the UK who have a learning disability.

Content author: webeditor@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 20/11/2008 11:13