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

[Nancy Matulis]

This sounds very informative. Thanks for passing it on. Nancy

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On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:34 PM, "Patricia LaFrance-Wolf" <plawolf at earthlink.net> wrote:

> >NEW ON-LINE COURSE FOR MANAGING DIABETES
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> >Caring for diabetes is a 24/7 challenge.  Add the complication of low
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> >vision or no vision to the mix and you go from being independent in
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> >your diabetes self-managing to daily dependence on others.  With
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> >private foundation funding, The Carroll Center for the Blind is now
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> >offering two separate, web-based interactive courses:
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> >Diabetes and Visual Impairment: A New View for Professionals and
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> >Diabetes and Visual
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> >Impairment: A New View for Patients and Families.
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> ><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/258bbb235e81469f05426c757b0db0cd
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> ?pa=5138503612>Diabetes
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> >and Visual Impairment: A New View for
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> >Professionals was designed for healthcare, vision and other
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> >professionals looking to improve knowledge and related skills of both
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> >diabetes and vision impairment.  Participants who successfully complete
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> >the course will earn 30 contact hours
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> (CEs).
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> ><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/3631a7f9668ab602584d6adb4eef15c5
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> ?pa=5138503612>Diabetes
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> >and Visual Impairment: A New View for Patients and Families is more
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> >personalized and is broken into shorter segments.  The lessons provide
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> >information to supplement that given by physicians and other healthcare
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> >professionals to individuals and is not meant to be a prescription to
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> >meet
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> individual needs.
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> >The curriculum for both courses was developed by Margaret E.  Cleary,
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> >RN, MS, CVRT®, who has over thirty years of experience as a
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> >rehabilitation nurse, diabetes educator and certified vision therapist
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> >at the Carroll Center.  “I anticipate that at the conclusion of this
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> >class, participants will be far better able to aid patients or
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> >consumers who have diabetes and visual impairment in developing a
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> >therapeutic, healthier and more productive lifestyle” Cleary said.
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> >Brian Charlson, director of computer training at the Carroll Center,
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> >supervised the technical aspects of the project which features Moodle
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> >(Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment), a software
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> >platform that provides the sighted reader with complete and
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> >easily-accessed materials while allowing the visually impaired student
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> >easy access through his or her own adaptive technology.
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> >Both courses are available online through the
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> ><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/4246749532895829a3e1363e0e49897c
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> ?pa=5138503612>Carroll
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> >Center for the Blind’s web-based distance learning service.  They are
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> >the most extensive online courses available to visually impaired and
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> >blind consumers and medical professionals on the topics of diabetes and
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> >visual impairment.
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> >Development of the online courses was funded by grants from the
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> >BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts Foundation, Cisco Systems and
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> >Phillips Healthcare.  For more information about these new online
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> >courses, or to register, please call 
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> ><mailto:brian.charlson at carroll.org>Brian
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> >Charlson at 617-969-6200 ext.  224.
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> ><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/9a70765c30420c0103936f61ced8369c
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> ?pa=5138503612
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> ><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/ddb05130f6cae177611dd7d6779b9712
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> ?pa=5138503612
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> ><http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/7d8c2b07ee45a61abed9840a68322b3f
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> ?pa=5138503612
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