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DEAFBLIND UK Helpline for people who are deaf and blind, their carers and professionals.
Offers general advice, information, listening and referrals. Subjects covered
include equipment and appliances, communication methods, local services,
leisure activities and holidays, respite care, training and residential homes. Objectives - To enable those people with a dual sensory impairment to live full and
active lives despite their disability.
- To teach and encourage touch-basesd communication systems.
- To raise awareness of deafblindness in the caring professions and amongst
the wider public, and to ensure that the needs of deafblind people are
appropriately met in health/community care planning.
Activities- Visiting/assessing deafblind individuals.
- Participation in national developmental/lobbying groups.
- Contributing to individual community care plans.
- Information and advice on dual sensory loss.
- Social activities for deafblind people; rehabilitation services; holiday
flat.
- Independent living accommodation.
- Linking deafblind people through magazines and newspapers in touch-based
media.
- International representation.
Deafblind UK 100 Bridge Street
Peterborough
PE1  0800 132330
 http://www.deafblnd.demon.co.uk/
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