This is Sinead. Career-driven, newly married and loving life. Living with vision impairment has not always been easy. But that’s never stopped Sinead achieving her goals. A determined and confident woman, Sinead helps others with similar experiences overcome their disability. This is her story. Visionaries – Sinead’s Story from VisAbility on Vimeo.
“Role models can teach you to love and respect yourself” – Tionne Watkins. Role models inspire us, ground us and encourage us. Family, friends, teachers, leaders. As a child, role models play an important role. They help you navigate paths that may be shrouded in fear, doubt or insecurity. Now imagine if you’re living with a…
Last month VisAbility’s Occupational therapist Naomi Gilson represented Tasmania and spoke at the Vic-Tas Regional Conference in Melbourne for Occupational Therapists. Naomi’s topic ‘Creative possibilities for living with low vision’, touched on why occupational therapists are ideally positioned to take up the challenge. Diminished capacity and loss of confidence due to vision impairment often…
VisAbility client Jim Cobban loves to travel, write poetry and take photographs. Now residing in Hobart, VisAbility helped Jim with lighting, magnification and basic computer accessibility. Below is one of Jim’s poems from his travels. Hello dear friends and travelers to be, Have a seat take a trip with me. I have traveled…
VisAbility client Jim Cobban and self-proclaimed shutter bug embarked on a trip of a life time to travel the places he always dreamed of. After he suffered a heart attack, Jim headed to the travel agent and with crutches in tow to book himself on a once in a lifetime journey while he could.…
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a significant change that affects all people with disability. Every person with disability has different goals and needs. And each person’s experience of the NDIS will be different. My Vision, My Choice is an online portal developed by VisAbility through funding provided by the (former) Disability Services Commission.…
We are proud to announce VisAbility’s new five-year Disability Employment Services program, CoAct Employment Services, which launches this month. This program will be run in partnership with CoAct, a national provider of employment services in Australia, for people with a sensory disability (individuals who are vision impaired and hearing impaired) in both Western Australia and…
Last month, Andrew Lyons, VisAbility’s Manager, Gateway Services, sat down with cheerful nonagenarian and client Lorene Bruce for a chat. She spoke to Andrew about her joys in life, why getting to do what you love is so important, and her transition towards accessing VisAbility services under My Aged Care funding. This is her story.…
A Day in the Life of an Occupational Therapist in our Acquired Brain Injury Service. Hi, my name is Donna and I’m an Occupational Therapist in VisAbility’s Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Services. As the first dedicated ABI visual assessment and rehabilitation facility in WA, I work with people all across the state who have had…
It was 18 years ago that Louise Snowball first found herself walking the halls of VisAbility, known then as the Association for the Blind. Having just been hired, it was with some trepidation she settled in to her new office, fully aware that she was the first child psychologist to work at VisAbility. With a…