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Formby opticians support people living with autism

  • Writer: Formby Bubble
    Formby Bubble
  • Apr 24, 2018
  • 2 min read

Staff members at Specsavers Formby have completed a course that will help provide support to customers with autism.


The initiative, which was developed with The National Autistic Society and is being rolled out across Specsavers stores nationwide, aims to build the team’s knowledge about the lifelong developmental disability, while helping to improve the customer experience for people with autism, and their carers.


The online learning modules cover understanding autism; communicating with people with autism; how autism can impact the senses, and adjustments that stores can make.

Victoria Rowe, optical assistant at the Southport store, is one of the team who has fully completed the training.


On passing successfully, Victoria says: ‘The training has made me more aware of the condition and helped me to recognise and adapt my behaviour accordingly, for example discussing the procedures and timescales of the eye-examination and being aware of individual needs and preferences.’


Retail director at Specsavers Southport and Formby, Victoria Dunn, says: ‘Autism affects more than one in 100 people and as our store is such a big part of the community, it is vital that we are able to communicate and support someone with the condition in the most effective way possible.

‘We are very proud to be involved in supporting The National Autistic Society and hope this training will help make the optical experience easier for people who are living with the condition.’


The National Autistic Society’s business development manager, Sharlene Wright, says: ‘This has been a great opportunity for us to increase awareness of autism in partnership with an organisation that is proactively seeking to enable autistic people to have a positive experience in its stores.


It has been an inspiring collaboration and The National Autistic Society welcomes the open attitudes and minds with which Specsavers is seeking to enhance the lives of people on the autism spectrum.’



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