Helping people with learning disabilities look after their eyes with SeeAbility’s Eye Care Champions. QPR fan. Plays bass. Let yourself be beautiful.

West Sussex
Joined August 2010
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We spoke to Martyn Howlett FBDO, senior dispensing optician and dispensing team lead at SeeAbility, to learn more about his role providing eye care in special schools.⁠ ⁠Read more about Martyn’s work and career journey → ow.ly/iR1850ZYEKo
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SeeAbility has been awarded an NHS contract to provide eye care to every special school across London and South-East England. The contract will see the charity’s special school’s service provide eye care to 70,000 SEND children. Read more here: ow.ly/BEGY50ZTtNU
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A recent survey found that 1 in 3 children with a learning disability or autism in Leicestershire are missing out on eye care. Optometrist Beth Cox completed the survey as part of her MSc in clinical optometry @cardiffuni. Read more about the findings → ow.ly/Q4Te50ZKpZU
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"Deaf Power." 🙌 Hull City's Matt Crooks is the first Premier League footballer to have an interview with Sign Up fully in BSL 👏 📺 The first episode from our fourth season of Sign Up is live from 5.30pm this evening on TNT Sports and HBO Max.
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As part of our Learning Together 2026 blog series, Lance Campbell, invites us to think about the eye care of people with a learning disability. Click to read more: slam.nhs.uk/estiacentre-blog… @MaudsleyNHS @SeeAbility #LearningDisability #EyeCare
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News update: SeeAbility has won an NHS contract to extend its Special School Eye Care Service to tens of thousands more children in special schools across London and the south east. Find out more → ow.ly/mQBy50ZuX2S
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There are disasters happening in Gaza that most of the world knows nothing about. Because the entire sewage system has been destroyed, people are forced to dig a pit about four meters deep next to their tents to serve as a sewage collection pit. Every family has to dig one because there is no longer any functioning sewage network. My family and I dug more than six of these pits during our displacement. Every time we were forced to move to a new place, we had to start over and dig another one. With the enormous number of tents across Gaza, hundreds of these open pits now surround displaced families. They pose a constant danger, especially to children, and animals also fall into them and die. Today, a little girl fell into one of these large sewage pits. She was rescued only because a young man risked his own life to climb down and save her. This was not the first incident of its kind. Other children have drowned in these pits before, and many cats and dogs have also fallen into them and died. Gaza City has collapsed completely. There is no functioning sewage infrastructure left. Large amounts of sewage are discharged into the sea, while the rest remains trapped among the tents, creating a breeding ground for disease, insects, and rodents.
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A London Assembly member has called for optical practices to increase accessibility for people with learning disabilities and autism by signing up to the Easy Eye Care pathway. Learn more here: ow.ly/3mfl50ZgofH
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Find out tomorrow about making eye care accessible to people with a learning disability with @kills1 and Lance from @SeeAbility @MaudsleyNHS
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Attention LOC members! We’re holding a SeeAbility in Focus webinar on Thursday evening between 7 & 8pm. This CPD accredited online lecture includes a discussion workshop, enabling practitioners to learn about the Easy Eye Care pathway and the role of primary care in supporting patients with learning disabilities and autism to access eye care. Please note this is for LOC members only! Register here 👉 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/… #optometry #opticians #webinar #learning #seeability
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Learning Together 2026 conference is coming 💙 Have you reserved your free ticket yet? 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/198832242… @MaudsleyNHS @maudsleylearn
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Thank you Edward for supporting @SeeAbility 🏃
Congratulations to Edward our LOC treasurer on his successful completion of the London Marathon. He is an inspiration to us all. He ran for the SeeAbility Charity who support people with learning disabilities or autism, who may also have sight loss.
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Book now 🎟️ Learning Together 2026 23rd June, Denmark Hill, London A free conference all health and social care staff, people with a learning disability, their friends and carers to celebrate and learn about all things 'learning disability’ eventbrite.co.uk/e/198832242… @MaudsleyNHS
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Afrori, a Brighton bookshop and the UK’s largest supplier of books by Black authors, is facing closure. They need to sell 1,000 books by next week. Please support if you can: afroribooks.co.uk
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Thank you to @greenwichmencap for inviting Lance and myself from @SeeAbility to talk about Easy Eye Care eye tests with opticians in South East London. It was good to hear everyone's experiences and we hope to see you again! #EqualRightToSight
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Viewpoint: Following on from his appearance on ITV this week, Matt Lester discusses how his social care support in Southampton became a game of chance and why he is concerned that support is being reshaped to fit budgets, not people’s needs. learningdisabilitytoday.co.u…
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For the past year we’ve investigated how the care system, NHS and courts are failing and neglecting learning disabled people, with fatal consequences. They consistently tell us: we don’t have a voice. We decided to listen. Their words should shame us all itv.com/watch/news/it-felt-l…
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