[acb-diabetics] new on line course for managing diabetes

[Patricia LaFrance-Wolf]

>NEW ON-LINE COURSE FOR MANAGING DIABETES

 

>Caring for diabetes is a 24/7 challenge.  Add the complication of low 

>vision or no vision to the mix and you go from being independent in 

>your diabetes self-managing to daily dependence on others.  With 

>private foundation funding, The Carroll Center for the Blind is now 

>offering two separate, web-based interactive courses:

>Diabetes and Visual Impairment: A New View for Professionals and 

>Diabetes and Visual

>Impairment: A New View for Patients and Families.

 

><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/258bbb235e81469f05426c757b0db0cd

?pa=5138503612>Diabetes

>and Visual Impairment: A New View for

>Professionals was designed for healthcare, vision and other 

>professionals looking to improve knowledge and related skills of both 

>diabetes and vision impairment.  Participants who successfully complete 

>the course will earn 30 contact hours

(CEs).

 

><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/3631a7f9668ab602584d6adb4eef15c5

?pa=5138503612>Diabetes

>and Visual Impairment: A New View for Patients and Families is more 

>personalized and is broken into shorter segments.  The lessons provide 

>information to supplement that given by physicians and other healthcare 

>professionals to individuals and is not meant to be a prescription to 

>meet

individual needs.

 

>The curriculum for both courses was developed by Margaret E.  Cleary, 

>RN, MS, CVRT®, who has over thirty years of experience as a 

>rehabilitation nurse, diabetes educator and certified vision therapist 

>at the Carroll Center.  “I anticipate that at the conclusion of this 

>class, participants will be far better able to aid patients or 

>consumers who have diabetes and visual impairment in developing a 

>therapeutic, healthier and more productive lifestyle” Cleary said.

 

>Brian Charlson, director of computer training at the Carroll Center, 

>supervised the technical aspects of the project which features Moodle 

>(Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment), a software 

>platform that provides the sighted reader with complete and 

>easily-accessed materials while allowing the visually impaired student 

>easy access through his or her own adaptive technology.

 

>Both courses are available online through the 

><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/4246749532895829a3e1363e0e49897c

?pa=5138503612>Carroll

>Center for the Blind’s web-based distance learning service.  They are 

>the most extensive online courses available to visually impaired and 

>blind consumers and medical professionals on the topics of diabetes and 

>visual impairment.

 

>Development of the online courses was funded by grants from the 

>BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts Foundation, Cisco Systems and 

>Phillips Healthcare.  For more information about these new online 

>courses, or to register, please call 

><mailto:brian.charlson at carroll.org>Brian

>Charlson at 617-969-6200 ext.  224.

><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/9a70765c30420c0103936f61ced8369c

?pa=5138503612

><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/ddb05130f6cae177611dd7d6779b9712

?pa=5138503612

><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/7d8c2b07ee45a61abed9840a68322b3f

?pa=5138503612

 

>©2011 Carroll Center for the Blind | 770 Centre Street Newton, MA

02458

 

 

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