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This is a UK question but I suspect a the issues will be pretty international.

I mentor people who have gone through sight loss, often young women in at a time they would normally be in education. Right now it takes the authorities way too long to create a formal plan for a young person in school who doesn't have good eyesight. This means sitting around at home for six months or most of a year depending on timing. That is a disaster for people with a lot of academic ability and ambition in a situation where they really need some structure and normality in life. Sitting at home while your buddies go off to be undergrads is salt in the wound.

Some of the people I know are from families who could afford private tutors many of whom have been wonderful. The thing is we have encountered a very variable attitude. Some of them felt it was necessary to have some sort of special qualification though they never had any idea what qualification that would be. I mean clearly you aren't going to book someone to do some sort of art course based on photography or whatever. But we've had people say they couldn't do mathematics, which we know you can, because people we know have aced math GCSEs with zero sight. It needs a problem solving attitude but dealing with sight loss is mostly not rocket science, ask me how I know.

I would be interested to hear any ideas on this especially from people outside the UK because I want to know what to say to people. Clearly it can be done, we know people who have done it, but I guess it's just creating a bunch of extra work for someone who's paid by the hour and I guess I get the hesitation. What do we think?

Submitted May 05, 2024 at 11:50PM by DrillInstructorJan https://ift.tt/9NocWQd