Dorothy\u00a0works for a local charity providing\u00a0rehabilitation support, she visits elderly and visually impaired people in their homes to assess their needs.<\/p>\n
Dorothy found our deafblind awareness and guiding training: \u201cAmazing! Some of the simulation exercises were challenging but opened my eyes. It was staggering. I already use the training to help me improve my visits.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring my visits I am more aware of the signs of potential hearing loss. For example I recently visited a very independent minded, severely visually impaired man. Whereas before the training I would perhaps not have taken his hearing loss into account, as we have been focused on the visual impairment aspect, now I am in a better position to look at both sides. I think my visits following the Silver Dreams, IGH training are better. We are seeing more of our visually impaired clients have a hearing loss and so the learning we have achieved on the deafness side is especially useful and practical.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the training I have learnt not to make assumptions about how to approach or support a deafblind person. My lipreading skills have improved and I am more aware of how I am communicating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dorothy\u00a0works for a local charity providing\u00a0rehabilitation support, she visits elderly and visually impaired people in their homes to assess their needs. Dorothy found our deafblind awareness and guiding training: \u201cAmazing! Some of the simulation exercises were challenging but opened my eyes. It was staggering. I already use the training to help me improve my visits.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,49],"tags":[86,100,66,60,62,104,65,47],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-age-related-deafblindness","category-training","tag-acquired-communication-disorders","tag-age-related-deafblindness-2","tag-big-lottery","tag-communication","tag-deafblind-support","tag-disability","tag-older-people","tag-sensory-impairment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hi-vis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}