The BucksVision Rehabilitation Team consists of a number of qualified Rehabilitation Officers, who have under gone several years of intensive training in visual impairment. Our Senior Rehabilitation Officer is visually impaired himself and has been working in the field for over 15 years. The Rehabilitation Officers visit visually impaired people in their homes to assess what can be done to keep them independent. This service is available to anyone living in the Bucks County Council area and to anyone under the age of 18 and living in Milton Keynes.
The Rehabilitation Team teach mobility skills which might include long white cane skills, bus travel and routes to places such as shops or work. Another main skill that Rehabilitation Officers teach are daily living skills, which range from cooking to cleaning. Our trained Rehabilitation Officers can also teach mobility to visually impaired school children both in schools and at home.
Our Rehabilitation Team can advise on magnifiers and provide training on a wide range of specialist equipment from felt tip pens to microwave ovens that talk, and on to computers that talk and read books to you.
The Resource Centre in Aylesbury is run by a Rehabilitation Officer who can spend time with individuals finding out what equipment might help them, then demonstrating the equipment. The Resource Centre in Milton Keynes also has a variety of equipment on display and available for demonstration by our resource centre volunteers to members in the Milton Keynes area.
The Rehabilitation Team work closely with the BucksVision volunteers which means that all of BucksVision's resources are used effectively.