Welcome to Seeing Sense
Seeing Sense has extensive expertise in equipping all kinds of organisation to meet the needs of customers, service users or patients who are blind or partially sighted.
If you offer goods or services to the public, you are legally required to ensure you do not discriminate against those with little or no sight. You may not realise how many visually impaired people you serve. In the UK around one in 12 of those people aged 60 or over have serious loss of vision, so you can’t afford to ignore their needs.
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Seeing Sense provides training, consultancy and a range of free resources to support you and your staff so they can confidently and safely work with blind and partially sighted people. Seeing Sense can help make sure that you stay on the right side of the law, and provide a service your customers or patients will value.
Staff Training
Seeing Sense can train your staff to ensure their approach meets the required standards and gives them the knowledge and confidence to provide a quality customer service. For example, our most popular visual awareness short course is called Understanding Sight Loss. Click the link below to view details.
Understanding Sight Loss short course leaflet
This is just one of a series of programmes we offer. Please review the full list, or contact us to discuss a tailor-made package.
Consultancy services
Seeing Sense provides consultancy services to help you review your polices and processes, so that you can be confident that you are providing people who are visually impaired with an up to date, best practice service. Satisfied customers include the Dept. of Health, universities, local authorities and private and voluntary organisations.
Free Resources
Seeing Sense provides a range of free resources to help you plan and deliver quality services. View the details here.
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Professional expertise
We are an independent organisation run by qualified experts with many years of proven experience in devising and delivering high quality services for those with little or no sight. And at Seeing Sense we know personally what it is like to be visually impaired, so we are best placed to provide you with training and consultancy that is well informed while being realistic about your available resources.
Seeing Sense is committed to helping public and private sector organisations understand why sight loss matters.
