Programme
9.00 Registration and refreshments
9.45 Welcome: Keziah Latham
9.55 - 10.35 Lecture One: wearable Electronic Vision Enhancement Systems. First developed in the early 1990s, wEVES are now re-emerging with smarter, sleeker designs. But do they truly deliver on their promise for older adults with AMD? This talk presents evidence-based insights into the real-world impact of wEVES - assessing real-world impact versus theoretical promise
- Andrew Miller, Optometry Lecturer
10.35 - 11.00 RWPN Annual General Meeting
11.00 - 11.25 break
11.25 - 12.15 Lecture Two: Consequences of Eye Diseases – an Optometrist’s Perspective for Vision Rehabilitation Specialists
- Keziah Latham Professor of Optometry, Director of Vision & Hearing Sciences, Vision and Eye Research Institute
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
13.15 - 14.05 Workshop: One of three from:
a) Understanding filters Richard Bowring, Associated Optical and Jane MacNaughton, Anglia Ruskin University
b) Should there be a qualification for VRS assistants? Widening professional opportunities, growing the profession and meeting unmet needs or a potential threat to the survival of the profession by accident? A session that will guide RWPN’s position on the issue. Discussion and debate led by Simon Labbett and Shaun Basham
c) Tommy Dean Guide Dogs (content related to tech to be agreed)
14.05 - 14.30 break
14.30 - 15.20 Workshop: One from the three above
15.20 - Closing comments
Notes
£47 per person including buffet lunch and refreshments
Support workers no charge (but must be included for numbers in the booking)
Park & Ride
5 sites around Cambridge, car park free up to 18 hours, £4 return, bus station to ARU is 0.5 mile walk.
Parking near ARU
Queen Anne Terrace, over 6 hours is £21, walk to ARU 0.2 miles.
Grafton Centre, over 5 hours is £30, walk to ARU 0.3 miles.
Train Station
1 mile walk to ARU
Hotels
Premier Inn Newmarket Road – 0.6 miles
Premier Inn City Centre – 0.7 miles
Travelodge Newmarket Road – 0.5 miles
Travelodge City Centre – 1.1 miles
Granville Hotel – 0.3 miles
