Eye Health Week: Starting a new pathway
My name is Grace and I work for SeeAbility. This week is National Eye Health Week and I want to tell you why eye care is so important to me.
News
Read news and blogs from the SeeAbility team, many of whom have lived experience of learning disabilities, autism or sight loss.
Eye Health Week: Getting a sight test
Having an eye test is something I never got round to doing. I didn’t think it was important especially as I thought my eyes were fine. But since joining SeeAbility in 2019, when I was 19 years old, I learnt how important having an eye test was and especially as I’m promoting eye care, I needed the experience for myself.
Eye Health Week: Accessing the right eye care
As this is National Eye Health Week, I want to tell you why eye care is important to me and why it matters for everyone who has a learning disability.
Eye Health Week: Explaining the Easy Eye Care service
The Easy Eye Care service lets people have longer eye tests or several shorter appointments if they need them with local opticians who have had special training.
Eye Health Week: Focusing in on eye care for children with learning disabilities
Today for National Eye Health Week the theme is Kids' Vision. It’s a great chance to highlight the vital importance of supporting children with learning disabilities, who are 28 times more likely to have a sight problem than other children, but much less likely to get the eye care they need.
Eye care service in special schools is highly commended in end of year report
As the school year ends, the SeeAbility special schools eye care team has been gathering evidence on the impact that eye care makes for children with learning disabilities.
Meet Charlotte - our new Influencer
Charlotte is the new SeeAbility Influencer. Read her story in her words.
Bringing #MyWholeSelf to work
This Pride Month, our Content Producer and Internal Communications Co-ordinator Jamie reflects on his journey to bring his whole self to work by helping to set up Wellbeing Coaches and an LGBTQI+ Network at SeeAbility.
Thriving in life - an interview with Emily
This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we’ve been talking to Emily about the difference between living and thriving, and how we can tackle this year’s theme of ‘loneliness’.
Marking Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection
The profoundly isolating impact of the Covid lockdowns has affected all of us this past couple of years, and the sudden changes in freedom, routine and contact with loved ones have been deeply challenging for us as individuals, as families, and communities.
Kids in SEND classes need their glasses too!
Our Head of Eye Care and Vision, Lisa Donaldson blogs on the importance of recognising disabled children’s vision needs.