Attend our FREE Webinar: “Diabetes with Visual Impairment: A New View”

This webinar will be held today, December 14th, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 2:00PM EST

To access this webinar, visit www.accessibleevent.com/273224170/ anytime after 12:30 PM EST today, December 14th, 2011. Enter your name and click the GO button to begin. It is recommended that you have the latest version of the Flash plugin for your browser. You can download the latest version of Flash at the Adobe website

The Carroll Center for the Blind is proud to offer three different online courses on how those who are blind or visually impaired can manage their diabetes. Come and learn how you can take advantage of these innovative courses on December 14th, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 2:00PM when course developer and Registered Nurse Margaret Cleary and The Carroll Center’s Director of Computer Training Services, Brian Charlson (a blind diabetic) will walk you through the courses and relate just how many ways a blind person can be independent in the management of their diabetes.

This webinar is perfect for you if:

• You or a member of your family is blind or visually impaired and has diabetes;
• You are a professional working in the area of rehabilitation or special education of those who are blind or visually impaired;
• You are a health professional who needs to better understand how those who are blind or visually impaired can manage their own diabetes.

Registration is required to attend this webinar. Simply visit our Distance Learning website and login or create a new account to register.

Introduction of Presenters and Topic

Brian Charlson

1. What brought about my interest in diabetes?

2. Five immediate concerns I had as a visually impaired person

   1. How do I maintain my independence by self-managing?

   2. How can I continue my cooking and eating interests?

   3. Who will manage my medical care?

   4. What adaptive equipment in available to me?

   5. What financial assistance is available to help me self-manage?

Margaret Cleary

1. What stimulated my interest in diabetes and visual impairment?

2. Five concerns I heard most often from individuals with diabetes and visual impairment

   1. What is diabetes?

   2. How can I be independent without driving?

   3. How can I draw my own insulin and not have to depend upon my family?

   4. How can I find out about rehabilitation services?

   5. What financial resources are available to help me self-manage?

Carroll Center’s three online courses in Diabetes and Visual Impairment:

1. Diabetes and Visual Impairment: A New View for Professionals (continuing education units available for vision professionals)

2. Diabetes and Visual Impairment: A New View for Patients and Families

3. Diabetes and Visual Impairment: A New View for Medical Professionals (continuing education units available for medical professionals—ex. nurses, pharmacologists and dietitians)

   1. Moodle-Brian Charlson

   2. Syllabus-Margaret Cleary (fifteen topic description, definition of terms, multiple resources, adaptive equipment, helpful hints, financial suggestions, talking with an individual with diabetes, further readings, quizzes to make sure information is understood)

Questions and answers-Brian and Margaret