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Week of Apr 29th

  • Sharing Space Support Group Spring 2024

    Sharing Space Support Group Spring 2024


    April 30, 2024

    This program offers a 10-week professionally facilitated group counseling opportunity for adults with visual disabilities. Together, participants will explore various aspects of living with partial sight or blindness, delve into identity formation amidst visual challenges, assess support networks from friends and family, navigate the process of grief and letting go, manage feelings of stress and overwhelm, and celebrate personal achievements. Lisa Derencinovic, MSW, a professional counsellor with lived experience of blindness, leads the group. Lisa has provided therapeutic counseling at BALANCE for the past 7 years.

    Limited space, so secure your spot now! To register, please contact our office at info@balancefba.org or call 416-236-1796 ext. 0.

    Low Vision Speaker Series: “If My Vision [Acuity] is So Good, Why Can’t I …?” Using Low Vision Assessment to Explore Client-Identified Challenges and Possible Solutions

    Low Vision Speaker Series: “If My Vision [Acuity] is So Good, Why Can’t I …?” Using Low Vision Assessment to Explore Client-Identified Challenges and Possible Solutions


    April 30, 2024

    “If My Vision [Acuity] is So Good, Why Can’t I …?” Using Low Vision Assessment to Explore Client-Identified Challenges and Possible Solutions with Julia Foster, OT.

    This interactive, case-based presentation will explore low vision assessment, specifically:

    • The role of the low vision assessment (LVA) in the continuum of eye health care and low vision/blindness rehabilitation
    •  Components of low vision rehabilitation assessment
    • Case scenarios that explore applying LVA results to:
      • Connect visual function with client-identified concerns
      • Inform education to clients/families
      • Shape a rehabilitation plan and identify potential low vision aids/strategies
    • Questions to reflect on your connection to low vision/blindness rehabilitation
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