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Including Vision - thoughts from the low vision services sub group about ethnicity and vision impairment with help f

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Including Vision - thoughts from the low vision services sub group about ethnicity and vision impairment with help f

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    1. Including Vision - thoughts from the low vision services sub group about ethnicity and vision impairment (with help from Prof Mark Johnson De Montfort University and Angela McCullagh Thomas Pocklington Trust) Mary Bairstow Low Vision Steering Group July 11th 2007

    2. Additional barriers “Ethnic minorities with sight loss face similar problems to their white counterparts……. what is different is that for a range of social economic and cultural reasons [ethnic minorities] face additional barriers”

    3. UK Vision Strategy Eliminate avoidable blindness and improve support 4 “Chapters” in the context of BME communities awareness, education and prevention of blindness correction, treatment and the eyecare journey support for independent living empowerment and the inclusive society

    4. Chapter 1 -seeing both sides “….another problem which I am still suffering of, is to understand the system and to know the opportunities that are available for disabled people like me” “a presumption exists that individuals …live in large extended families, yet in this study a profound degree of isolation was expressed by most participants” An exploration of the needs of Somali visually impaired people in Sheffield Dec 2006

    5. Community Awareness of services Perceptions of health, body and disease Descriptive barriers - culture and language differences Accessibility (where and when) Experiences of services Language and availability of information

    6. Culturally Appropriate? No account of cultural needs For example- gender, meals, news and communication Responding to need - taking into account local complexities - family, community and environment - generational differences Workforce representation does not equate with responsiveness

    7. Chapter 2 - The eye care journey Knowledge of eye conditions Access points and ‘bridges’ Poor satisfaction of services - suspicion Poor understanding of ‘blind’ registration Lack of understanding and cultural barriers to ‘rehabilitation’

    8. Chapter 3 - Supporting independence 78% of people found getting around independently difficult Many people needed readers Many people struggled to wash dress and make hot drinks Within the Bangladeshi Community 96% had food prepared “Opening the Door” Seeability 1999

    9. So why? Cultural barriers Stereotyping and institutional ‘gate-keeping’ Poor access to rehabilitation and social care teams Cultural appropriateness of service provider

    10. Chapter 4 - empowerment and inclusion Low Self esteem Need for assertiveness training Provider - attitude and awareness Interpreter, translation and information needs Community awareness and support

    11. So what’s the strategy Community tools Provider tools Models of co-ordination

    12. Thank you for listening On behalf on the LV sub-group Jamal Abdulah - Liverpool Voluntary Society for the Blind (LVSB) Jasbir Behal - Birmingham Focus on Blindness Ashrafia Choudury - Seeability Younus Khan - RNIB Swapna McNeil- Leeds Association of Blind Asians Mr Yang - Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary

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