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RNIB guidance update: sighted guiding after 19 July 2021
Following the relaxation of coronavirus rules, we’ve issued revised guidance on sighted guiding, agreed with Guide Dogs and Thomas Pocklington Trust.
Seven musicians with sight loss from around the world talk about their struggle to pursue their chosen career
Blind Notes, a seven-part conversation series of radio programmes featuring one-to-one interviews with musicians from around the world – all of whom are blind – begins this evening.
RNIB is holding the Government to its promise to introduce quotas for on-demand services
Billy Horsburgh from Anstruther has glaucoma, but eagerly follows series and films streamed on television where additional voice-over narration explains what is happening to the viewer.
Sight loss charity RNIB Scotland marks Diabetes Week by emphasising importance of eye-screening
As the covid crisis hopefully eases, concerns are being focused on the impact of lockdown on other health conditions.
RNIB's Need to Talk counselling service can offer reassurance to those with sight loss
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and RNIB Scotland is highlighting the emotional reassurance and practical help it offers during the coronavirus lockdown and its aftermath.
Blind and partially sighted people urged to email Scottish Parliament election candidates
Over 8,500 blind and partially sighted people and their supporters across Scotland have been urged to join a concerted drive to contact their local candidates for the Scottish Parliament election in May.
Online conference will examine impact of coronavirus on Scots with sight loss
The impact of the year-long coronavirus crisis on blind and partially sighted adults and children will be examined in a major Scottish online conference that begins today.
Coronavirus lockdown could be causing more people with sight loss to experience hallucinations
RNIB warns that the ongoing lockdown and coronavirus restrictions could be causing a spike in hallucinations due to sight loss.
Schoolchildren with sight loss are at risk of falling behind during lockdown, warns RNIB
The shift to remote school learning during lockdown could put children with vision impairment at risk of falling further behind, the national sight loss charity RNIB has warned.
Blind and partially sighted voters struggle to cast their ballot with confidence
RNIB's new "Turned Out" report exposes how inaccessible the election process can be for those with sight loss.