Training

At SITE we feel it is important to provide training for visually impaired people, businesses, local authorities, voluntary organisations. Community groups and schools in order to ensure that visually impaired people are not excluded from society.

SITE offers high quality training on issues around visual impairment. We can also design individual courses to meet the specific training needs of an organisation. We can provide training on:

-Visual Impairment Awareness Training
-Disability Equality Training
-Visual Impairment Diversity Training
-Visual Impairment Etiquette / Good Practice Training
-Community Awareness Sessions
-Visual Impairment Short Courses
-Disability Discrimination Act Training


Visual Impairment Awareness Training

Visual impairment awareness training (viat) is essential for all organisations to meet the needs of people who are blind or partially sighted, whether they are customers, clients or employees. Due to the Disability Discrimination Act, Service providers are legally obliged to make their services accessible to people with disabilities. Our training will help you understand the needs of Blind and partially sighted people and improve the service you offer.

Topics covered can include:

-The Disability Discrimination Act and legal responsibilities towards blind and partially sighted people

-Eye conditions and the impact of sight loss
-The practical and emotional effects of sight loss
-Independence and mobility for blind and partially sighted people
-How blind people read: alternative formats and accessible information
-How to enable blind and partially sighted people, rather than disabled them
-Meeting, greeting and etiquette with blind and partially sighted people
-Assisting and guiding a person with sight loss
-Practical solutions for employers and employees around sight loss in the workplace
-Products and services to help and support blind and partially sighted people

Disability Equality Training

A training course which looks at disability/Visual Impairment from an equalities perspective using the Social Model framework to promote good practice and prevent discrimination/litigation under the DDA.


Visual Impairment Diversity Training

The Visual Impairment Diversity Training course looks at the issues of exclusion, marginalisation, prejudice and discrimination. Examining how this impacts on visually impaired people and other groups for example older people.


Visual Impairment Etiquette / Good Practice Training

This course is designed for businesses who wish to access the spending power of disabled people. By exploring appropriate language use and good practice issues you therefore make your service more accessible for disabled people.


Community Awareness Sessions

We can provide short informal presentations to community organisations, groups and schools. With practical demonstrations of the problems faced by visually impaired people and how these are addressed. Educational resources are supplied to schools for future use.


Visual Impairment Short Courses

This is a short two hour session focusing on a particular issue. We can deliver courses on issues such as language and communication, the Disability Discrimination Act, accessible information or the barriers faced by visually impaired people and how to address these.


Disability Discrimination Act Training

Providing employers and service providers with a working knowledge of the DDA.