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Why Coaching?

Essentially, a coach is a trusted partner, offering practical solutions, emotional support, and a roadmap to navigate life’s journey with clarity and confidence. With their guidance, individuals with impaired vision can embrace their potential and achieve their aspirations, fostering a fulfilling and empowered life

How Do I Know If I Need a Visual Impairment Coach?

What is Coaching for the Visually Impaired?
Living with impaired vision presents unique challenges that can impact various aspects of life. Here is where the role of a coach becomes invaluable. A coach, specifically trained to work with individuals with impaired vision, offers guidance, support, and strategies to navigate these challenges and unlock new opportunities.
How would coaching benefit me
  1. Personalized Guidance: A coach understands that each person’s journey is unique. They work closely with you to understand your goals, aspirations, and challenges. With this insight, the coach tailors their guidance to align with your needs and circumstances.
  2. Building Confidence: Impaired vision can sometimes lead to a decline in self-confidence. A coach encourages and helps their clients recognize their strengths and abilities. The coach empowers individuals to overcome self-doubt and achieve their goals through understanding and encouragement.
  3. Goal Setting and Achievement: Whether pursuing a career, learning new skills, or improving overall well-being, a coach assists in setting your goals. They break down larger objectives into manageable steps, ensuring progress and celebrating each milestone.
  4. Adapting to Change: Personal changes such as vision loss can be overwhelming. A coach helps the individual adjust, offering strategies to adapt daily routines, enhance mobility, and maintain independence. They provide emotional support during transitional phases.
  5. Enhancing Life Skills: From cooking and managing finances to using assistive technologies, a coach guides you to improve essential life skills. They help individuals discover tools and techniques that promote independence and efficiency in daily tasks.
  6. Networking and Resources: A coach is well-connected within the visually impaired community. They can provide information about support groups, workshops, and resources that cater to specific needs. Creating a sense of belonging and access to a broader network of individuals facing similar challenges.
  7. Career Guidance: For those seeking employment, a coach can assist in exploring suitable career options, preparing for interviews, and addressing workplace accommodations. They provide advice on leveraging skills and experiences to excel in the professional world.
  8. Emotional Well-being: Coping with vision impairment can sometimes bring emotional challenges. A coach offers a safe space to express feelings and concerns. They provide coping strategies, stress management techniques, and emotional support to promote well-being.
Do You Only Work With the Visually Impaired or Companies too?

As a visually impaired consultant I assess, develop, and support employers as well asindividuals.

About Callum Russell

Coach

Callum Russell, has been blind since birth. He studied modern languages at university after attending mainstream school and learnt a lot about the the wide ranging attitudes there are about disability. Challenging these is his mission . Callum has lived and studied in Italy, Belgium, France and Spain. He travels widely in Europe and both North and South America. He worked for Sight for Surrey, a charity supporting people with sensory impairments and Surrey Police as an equality, diversity and inclusion officer.

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Organisations I’ve Worked With

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We spoke to Callum Russell, at CrystalEyes, who you (Surrey Inclusion Service) recommended. He was fantastic – knowledgeable, supportive, very easy to talk to. I would recommend him to any of the kids with VI who are considering university applications.

Callum is brilliant speaker who was able to get across the key messages in a thoroughly engaging and inspiring way. It would have been nice to have longer just because the session was so engaging.

Berkshire Sensory Consortium Service

We asked Callum to do a site survey of our website to check that we are doing as much as we can in terms of accessibility for our visually impaired users.  He was brilliant to work with – efficient, timely and the report has given us great insight into where we need to make some changes.  I couldn’t recommend CrystalEyes highly enough

Alicia Drummond

Founder, Teen Tips

News & Resources

Could reforms to the DSA be a game changer for the vision impaired?

  The Student Loans Company have recently announced reforms to Disabled Students Allowance (DSA), which it hopes will make the application process smoother and more reliable for university students. But will these changes have the desired effect for students with...

What makes an accessible audio guide?

Over the Easter weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting Vienna with my family. Vienna is a city known for its musical heritage with composers including Mozart and Beethoven residing and working there at various points in their lives. And of course, who can forget the...

Pavement parking: a hazard for the vision impaired

As vision impairment is such a broad disability with different implications for different people, there are a relatively small number of issues on which vision impaired people speak with a united voice. However, one issue on which a unified position can be found is...