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DLA  is a benefit to help with the extra costs of looking after a child who has a disability or health condition. You can only make a new claim for DLA on behalf of a child under 16. Disability Living Allowance for children in a tax-free made up of a care and mobility components. A […]

If you’re blind or partially sighted, or your child is, then you might qualify for other financial help.

This National Eye Health Week, we interviewed Dr Lola Solebo, Paediatric Ophthalmologist and RSBC Trustee. She talks about her passion for looking after children’s eyes and shares 5 tips for good eye health. We asked her six questions about her journey into paediatric ophthalmology and the importance of eye health.

Most toddlers learn through sight, so your vision impaired toddler may have less information available to them to learn. But there are many things you can do to help them learn using all their senses to teach them about the world around them.

Braille is a tactile code which enables blind and vision impaired people to read. It uses the alphabet and numbers but your child reads with their fingers. It’s based on 6 raised dots in 2 columns of 3.

Cerebral visual impairment may mean your child finds it difficult to process visual information. It may also be part of a condition which affects your child’s physical development, such as cerebral palsy, or part of a condition affecting their understanding or health.

Some blind or partially sighted children may be sensitive to bright light and glare. You may notice signs like blinking a lot or watery eyes. Some eye conditions may mean children have low or no colour vision. How well they can see may depend on the time of day. For example, if they are tired, […]

Blind and partially sighted babies often don’t crawl by themselves. Sighted children crawl because they see something they want. Moving around a room can be confusing for a vision impaired baby at first. However, there are some easy things you can do to help them with this.

You should be able to borrow large print, braille and talking books for free from your library.