Core Skills – Participants will rotate through three key learning areas adapted to individual need and skill level in one or more of the following areas:

• Independent Living Skills

  • Eating (such as using cutlery and understanding the social skills around eating, including eating at a social occasion)

  • Managing personal appearance and dressing (such as using clothing fastenings, applying make-up and performing beauty routines)

  • Cooking and food preparation

  • Safe use of kitchen appliances and specialist technology, such as talking scales

  • Managing the home, for example changing batteries, replacing lightbulbs

  • Technology skills for living such as online shopping, food identification, online banking and using technology to read print post

• Mobility and Orientation

  •  Sighted guide

  • Pre-cane skills

  • Use of symbol cane, guide cane or adaptive mobility device

  • Long cane skills (diagonal cane, constant contact, two-point touch, three-point touch, shorelining, touch and drag, ascending and descending stairs, straight-line travel, walking in-step, negotiating obstacles)

  • Exploration of different cane tips

  • Use of environmental landmarks and cues

  • Spatial and sensory awareness

  • Use of low vision aids

  • Journey planning

  • Wheelchair mobility

  • Social skills and self-advocacy

  • Money management

  • Personal safety

  • Understanding their eye condition and the functional effects associated

  • Problem-solving

• Access Technology

  • Accessibility features of mobile devices, iPads and Windows laptop

  • Office applications (including basic file management and organisation)

  • Google applications / Browser software (e.g. Chrome, Edge) / Use of internet for research

  • Email and organisational software (e.g. Outlook)

  • iOS device support (eg using iphone with voiceover and gestures including the inbuilt ergonomic braille feature)