new on line course for managing diabetes

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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.

> 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

> Healthcare. For more information about these new online

>courses, or to register, please call

>

>Charlson at ext. 224.

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