[rsva-l] Manage Your Diabetes Independently

[Ardis Bazyn]

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.



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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).



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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. â?oI 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

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Carroll

 Center for the Blindâ?Ts 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.

Ardis Bazyn
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