[acb-hsp] [leadership] Fwd: Manage Your Diabetes Independently

[peter altschul]

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>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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