Some of the better organised Sight Loss organisations (I am aware of VISTA
in Leicester especially), and also a small number of South Asian Sight Loss
organisations such as ABA (Leeds) and in Coventry are geared up to such
matters but I am aware from the research we did that these are few and far
between - as everyone is saying. location, location, location --- and some
level of specificity of matching, in that age group -
eg
Our Vision Too: improving the access of ethnic minority visually impaired
people to appropriate services: building a supported community referral
system - Occasional Paper 10; Pocklington Trust / De Montfort University
November 2006 - ISBN 0-9554465-0-3 (Occasional Paper 10 - BME study - pdf
OP10 Word Version ) from website
Occasional Paper 10 - BME study - pdf or
http://www.pocklington-trust.org.uk/Shared_ASP_Files/UploadedFiles/DF4DF685-1E7C-474A-86F0-3E1A6CCE94BF_OP10BMENovember06.pdf
(if your server allows hyperlinks through and if it is still there!)
Mark Johnson
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