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Help connect your patients to the services they need, from learning the skills to live with sight loss to counselling or getting access to treatment.

All of our patient information leaflets are free to download from our website - please see our resources page.

All of our patient information leaflets are free to download from our website - please see our resources page.

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Can your visually impaired (VI) patients read your letters? This guidance has been produced to help you prepare documents for VI people.

The way you talk to patients about their macular disease can have a big effect on their mental health, and prognosis.

Eyecare professionals are on the front line of the fight against macular disease. These resources can help make sight loss less frightening for patients, and help you to be there for people facing macular disease today.

The below resources have been created to support QTVIs and teaching assistants who are teaching visually impaired students in educational settings.

Touch and feel

Vision impaired (VI) students rely more on other means of communication such as sounds and touch. Teachers and support staff should use objects to help the VI student develop their own artistic vocabulary based on description, experimentation and to help them overcome not being able to learn by sight.

Touch and feel

Vision impaired (VI) students rely on other means of communication such as sound and touch. Teachers and support staff should give opportunities for VI pupils to explore, use materials and tools. Using tactile methods will help VI pupils to overcome not being able to learn by sight.