To support our vision of “A Scotland aware of the needs of people with sensory impairment, that includes them as equal participants in community life and offers them the opportunities available to all”, NESS delivers Sensory Awareness (visual awareness and deaf awareness) Training, raising awareness of the practical and emotional impact of sight and/or hearing loss.
The training will give you greater awareness as well as the skills, knowledge for you to feel confident supporting someone with a sensory impairment. It will also introduce ideas about making services more accessible, particularly thinking about communication and information accessibility.
The training is suitable to anyone working in health and social care, whether it be in day care, residential care, home support, in hospital, in community-based settings – wherever you are working with people who need support. The training is also suitable for anyone working in a customer facing role, when you will be in contact with a wide range of people with different communication needs.
By the end of the training, you will:
- Be aware of the range of ways vision is affected by sight loss.
- Be aware of the different degrees of deafness and the different ways these impact on communication.
- Be aware of the practical and emotional barriers that affect people living with a sensory loss day to day.
- Understand the different mobility techniques that someone who is visually impaired might use to get out and about independently.
- Understand basic sighted guiding skills.
- Be able to communicate more effectively with someone with a hearing loss.
- Understand what British Sign Language is and who uses it.
- Understand the communication and information needs of people who are visually impaired, living with a hearing loss or who use British Sign Language as their first language.
- Be aware of some of the daily living aids and technology that someone with a sensory loss might use to maintain their independence.
How is the training structured?
There are two parts to our Sensory Awareness Training.
- The first part is e-learning. The e-learning provides you with all of the background information about sight loss, hearing loss, deafness, and deafblindness.
- The second part is the face-to-face part of the training. The face-to-face training will explore the practical and emotional impact of sight loss and hearing loss using interactive activities, looking particularly at communication and sighted guiding skills. Lunch will be provided as an integral part of the training.
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