Welcome to the Hi-Vis UK Learning Community.
Welcome to our learning community that is here to help you to discover more about age-related dual sensory loss and how it impacts on daily life.
Whether you are an older person, a carer or care sector professional, a clinician, social work professional, a student, someone looking for a new career or an employer you will find information and advice that will help you as an individual and in your professional life.
We are the charity that specialises in supporting those people who are experiencing problems with their vision and hearing as they are getting older and also those people and organisations who provide care and support.
We have produced the short film above and a new online distance learning course to tell you about the issues that losing hearing and sight can cause; what you can expect; how you can prepare to deal with the impacts; who can help you and what are your rights to statutory support.
Training and CPD opportunities with Hi-Vis UK
If you have a personal interest in dual sensory impairment or if you are in the health, voluntary or independent care sector business, you will find links to our complete range of additional learning and qualification opportunities on this site.
Or if you have a question about further training, send us your query by clicking on the CONTACT tab at the top right of this page.
Hi-Vis UK: Supporting Higher Standards in DSI Care
Hi-Vis UK & the CPD Standards Office
Hi-Vis UK is a registered accredited member of the Continuing Professional Development Standards Office (CPDSO), the prestigious global CPD Standards Community of trainers and coaches. As an accredited CPDSO member you can be assured our courses meet the highest standards in training and learning.
Hi-Vis UK’s DSI Project Platform: Training for Professionals
In addition to our free awareness training, we have our DSI Project Learning Platform dedicated to support all those working in health and social care with older people, or anyone identified as DSI or deafblind. Our DSI Project Platform courses have a fee for OCN accredited courses giving you the qualifications you need to support adults with DSI in line with legislation. Click here: DSI Project
How to use our website: Short Video Guides
Our short video guides show you how to register and enrol, how to login after enrolment or when returning to the site, how the quick quizzes work – there’s one at the end of each section, and how to use the accessibility tools to adjust the site to make it more comfortable to use e.g. enlarge the size of letters.
For a larger view of the videos below simply click on the full screen icon (this is the last one in the bottom right hand corner of the video).
The first one below is a short video showing how to enrol for the first time.
Video Guide 1.
How to Register and Enrol as a New User
A short video showing how to register then enrol for the first time.
Video Guide 2:
How to Log In and start learning
Once you have enrolled, each time you return to the course you will need to log back in. This short video shows you how.
Video Guide 3:
How the Quizzes work
A short video showing how to use the quiz in each section.
Video Guide 4:
How to use the Accessibility Tools
A short video showing you how to use the accessibility tools to make the site more comfortable for you e.g. enlarge the size of letters.You can also use your own browser/accessibility tools if you prefer.
Take a few moments…
…to think about why it is so important that we all need to understand Dual Sensory Impairment:
Lots of people think of being unable to hear well and having trouble seeing things clearly as just part of getting older. But we don’t think about it until this gradual wear and tear, this part of ageing, impacts on everything we do.
Stop for a moment and think about the simple things you do every day. How you would do these when your hearing and sight are both really getting worse?
From when we wake up until we go to sleep, as our senses detrioarate we risk losing the confidence to do key parts of daily life:
- Mobility, our ability and confidence to get around, go places, when we want
- Access information, our ability to read, use our mobiles, hear people talking
- Communication, our ability to connect with others, be part of the conversation
Without advice and support, we will lose these abilities. We will become isolated and lonely as we slowly lose our independence and contact with others.
But with advice and guidance from trained, qualified and experienced people we can learn how to successfully manage the way wear and tear affects every one of us, now and when it changes.
So how and where can you learn about this?
Start in the right place – sign up for our free, user friendly, distance learning course.
How?
- Click the enrol button above.
- Create your free place on our course.
- Do it! It’s flexible – do it when and where it suits you best.
- Tell everyone you know to do it!
It’s that simple, and it could change your life or someone you know.
And when you’ve done that and you want to learn more complete the contact form on this site to ask about our other courses.
Working in Partnership
