Do you ever feel uncomfortable when you meet a person with sight loss?
It can be tricky knowing how to best support an individual who wants to get around. With this in mind VisAbility decided to produce a new ‘Sighted Guide Video’ in collaboration with Curtin University.
We’ve been celebrating after becoming a finalist in the LASA National Excellence in Age Care Services Awards in WA 2020.
Nominated in the Organisation category, VisAbility was commended for the delivery of a range of high quality therapy services and activities available to those aged sixty-five and over.
Hydrotherapy is a great way to improve your mobility . It involves exercise in warm water and can relieve pain, relax and strengthen muscles.
Oue Exercise Physiologist, Felicity Austin, has been exploring the benefits of this type of therapy.
The new Western Australian Museum opens in November. It was designed to be as inclusive and accessible as possible.
VisAbility’s Access Consultant, David Vosnacos, was on the Access and Inclusion Community Panel and was invited to take a look at what’s on offer ahead of its formal opening.
COVID-19 has changed the way we do things, across the community. Physical distancing can be awkward at the best of times, but when you can’t see the signs things get complicated. Here are tips that you can do to help people with low vision or are blind to navigate their way around post lock down.
If you hare blind or vision impaired and would love to learn new skills, make new friends and perhaps get a new hobby. VisAbility has joined forces with international award-winning furniture and lighting designer Duncan Meerding to bring you a woodworking workshop with a difference.
Would you like to contribute to VisAbility in a meaningful way? In addition know that you are part of something which could change lives for the better?
Our Client and Carer Reference Groups meet every two months, so that we can find out what we’re doing well and how we could improve. We would love you to join us!
Lifelong teacher of the Deaf, Marie Kormendy, has received an Order of Australia.
Marie, who’s 84, is widely recognised for her work with youngsters in the deaf community but has also been actively involved with VisAbility.
Find out more about her ties with our organisation.
It was a stirring speech made by a young blind man at a fundraising event, which spurred Debbie Schaffer, our recently retired chairperson, to become involved with our organisation.
That speaker was Ryan Honschooten and now Debbie, who spent sixteen years involved with our organisation, has been reflecting on her time as fundraiser board member and chair.
Things are going to be getting a lot busier at the Perron Centre as it undergoes a major transformation with the arrival of Perron Place. The VisAbility building is being turned into a community hub so it can offer activities, one-off events and corporate room hire for everyone to enjoy.