Resources

If you have a child with a visual impairment joining your class, you may have questions about how best you can teach and help them.

If you are considering employing someone with inherited sight loss, or have an employee recently been diagnosed with the condition, you will need to take steps to ensure that you treat them fairly and that they can work safely and effectively.

Different inherited sight loss conditions present noticeable symptoms at different times.

My name is Mark Baxter and from an early age I was diagnosed with a deteriorating retinal eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa or RP for short, which will slowly lead to blindness.

As people living with sight loss we are constantly looking for solutions to make our lives easier without too much effort or cost writes Jonathan Abro.

You can download the last three years’ Trustees’ Annual Report & Accounts. They are also available on the Charity Commission website.

Aged 20, James was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at a routine eye appointment in September 2015 and registered partially sighted, just prior to buying his first car and taking his driving test.

Emily Kearney is mum to four boys, aged four to 13, two of whom are living with an inherited sight loss condition.

Russ was diagnosed with Choroideremia at the age of 11, after visiting caves in Spain and not being able to see anything.