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Disability

Direct Enquiries
www.direct-enquiries.com
Direct Enquiries – Good source to preplan visits to public service establishment for people with disabilities. This is an online disabled access register that gives businesses and service providers throughout the United Kingdom an opportunity to shout about what access and facilities they currently provide. Importantly it also provides details about what access and facilities they cannot provide today, but hope to provide in the future.

DirectGovUK
www.direct.gov.uk/Audiences/DisabledPeople/fs/en
Government website to help you find out about your rights as a disabled person, and to learn more about the legislation that exists to help establish fully comprehensive and enforceable civil rights for disabled people in the UK.

Information on Disabilities
Information, advice and guidance for people with disabilities, available in Reading and District.
For more information call: Judith Graham 0118 950 2829
or email: reading.cab@btinternet.com (no web link).

Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Advice on Job search, CV and letter writing, interview techniques. Registered Job Broker for New deal for disabled people. Reading area.
Call 0118 958 6116 for more info (no web link).

Royal Institute for the Blind
www.rnib.org.uk
The RNIB website has lots of useful information on making reading materials - books, websites, learning resources - more accessible to those with visual impairment. It also includes details of how to teach literacy skills to children with visual impairment and guidelines on how to produce books which are clearer to read for both those with and without visual impairment.

Reading Association for the Blind
www.readingassociationfortheblind.org
Information, advice and guidance/Teaching Braille and Moon/Resource information centre.
Call 0118 957 2960 for information.

Blind in Business
www.blindinbusiness.org.uk
Blind in Business provides a range of services to both undergraduates & graduates and employers to ease the transition between education and employment for visually impaired individuals.

BBC Betsie
www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie
The BBC Education site also includes Betsie, the software system that enables blind and partially sighted people to access website information.

Braille Bug
www.afb.org/braillebug/
Website created by the American Association for the Blind to teach sighted children about Braille and encourage literacy among all children, sighted and visually impaired. Among other things, its online games aim to help sighted children to realise how visually impaired classmates learn to read.

National Library for the Blind
www.nlb-online.org
The National Library for the Blind (NLB) is a registered charity and a leading agency in the provision of library and information services for visually impaired people.

Sensory Needs Service
www.wokingham.gov.uk
Through Wokingham District Council - assessment and teaching of independent living skills/issue of equipmet according to eligibility. For information call 01189 4445300.

Deafsign
www.deafsign.com
A new site, that offers a whole new approach to bringing the Deaf and hearing worlds closer together. The site has benefited from examples in other countries, such as the USA and provides information, contacts and discussion on issues related to deafness and sign language.

Deafax
www.deafax.org
Accredited training, information and advice for deaf adults, children and their teachers. All Berkshire.

Deaf 24/7
www.deaf247.co.uk
Deaf 24/7 is an internet resource point for any one interested in deaf related information especially in United Kingdom.

British Dyslexia Association
www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk/main/aboutUs/index.asp
The BDA is the voice of dyslexic people. Their aim is to influence government and other institutions to promote a dyslexia friendly society.

Space Counselling
www.spacecounselling.org
Individual counselling for people suffering from psychological or emotional problems. Slough area.

No.5 Youth Counselling and Information
www.no5.org.uk
No. 5 is a registered charity which exists to provide a confidential counselling and information service in Reading and the surrounding area, with young people as a priority, enabling individuals to make independent choices.

MENCAP
www.mencap.org.uk/html/information/info_and_advice2.htm
If you need help or advice on anything to do with mental health or learning disability - everything from benefits and housing options to local services - contact the Learning Disability Helpline 0808 808 1111 or email help@mencap.org.uk

West Berks MENCAP - The MENCAP Centre
www.westberks.gov.uk
Family adviser service, sports and leisure, children's activities, through West Berkshire Council.

Berkshire Autistic Society
www.autismberkshire.org.uk/
Advice and guidance on education, employment and supported employement services througout Berkshire.

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