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RNIB Learning Disability and Sight Loss Top Tips Guides
This Open Badge is awarded to people who demonstrate awareness of RNIB’s top tips to support people living with a learning disability and sight loss.
The prevalence of sight loss among people with a learning disability is far greater than previously thought. There are about one million adults in the UK with a learning disability. People with a learning disability are 10 times more likely to have serious sight problems than other people and those with severe or profound learning disabilities are most likely to have sight problems.
RNIB has produced some handy top tips guides that provide useful information on how to support someone with a learning disability and sight loss. You can find them through our website here.
To earn this badge you will need to:
Click on the links below to read the top tip guides. You can also download each guide as an accessible PDF and print them off too.
- Tips to help identify sight loss for a person with a learning disability
- Tips to help you communicate with a person who has a learning disability and sight loss
- Environmental tips to help a person with a learning disability and sight loss
- Mobility and guiding tips to support a person with a learning disability and sight loss
Pick one of the top tips you have learned, and tell us how you have used it in your work, or how you intend to use it in the future.
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You will need to provide around 100 words to earn this badge. Read the criteria carefully before submitting your statement, as your application will be declined if you don’t cover all the points within your evidence. You can put your statement in the Evidence box below, paste a link to your own blog or portfolio or send us a short audio or video statement using the ‘Add Attachment’ button further down this page.
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Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), one of the UK’s leading sight loss charities and the largest community of blind and partially sighted people. Everyday 250 people begin to lose their sight. RNIB has a crucial role to play in creating a world where there are no barriers to people with sight loss. We want society, communities and individuals to see differently about sight loss.
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