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Guide for disabled peopleBlind and visually impaired peopleGateway to care - August 2011gatewaytocare@kirklees.gov.uk
Browsealoud is a plugin for your web browser.
If you install the Browsealoud plugin on your PC, you can have the web pages on the Kirklees website read to you. Many other Websites also have this facility, such as Google and the BBC.
Calibre offers a free postal library service of audio books for people with sight problems.
If you are blind or partially sighted and have a problem with a chip and pin bank card, you can get a
signature card from your bank. Please note that you cannot use it in an ATM machine. Contact your
local bank branch for details.
Eye Clinic Liaison Officers (ECLOs) provide information and support to blind and partially sighted people, as well as their carers and families, at
the point of diagnosis.
In Kirklees there are ECLOs based at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Dewsbury and District Hospital.
South Kirklees
North Kirklees
Guide dogs provide mobility and freedom to blind and partially sighted people. The organisation called Guide Dogs also campaigns for the rights of
people with visual impairment, educate the public about eye care and fund eye disease research.
This service provides information in alternative formats for people who are blind, visually impaired
or who are unable to read standard print because of disability.
The service is in the transcription office in Huddersfield Library.
The team of qualified teachers of the deaf, qualified teachers of children with a visual impairment,
support workers, educational audiologist, mobility officers and Braille technicians provide support for
children with an identified sensory impairment.
They work in partnership with parents, advise and give information to schools and other childcare providers on the use of specialist skills and strategies to encourage the development of communication. Children can be referred at any age, by anyone, with the parents' permission. They work in homes, nurseries, schools and with other agencies such as the NHS and Sure Start.
A rehabilitation, equipment, support, information and advice service for all visual impaired adults living anywhere in Kirklees.
This is a fortnightly talking newspaper that is available on either CD or tape, for blind and
partially sighted people and others who find it difficult to read print.
Kirklees Council provides services for people who are visually impaired and live in Kirklees.
The Listening Eye[Lines are open 6pm to 10pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday]A service that offers support by blind people with long experience of living with visual impairment. They are willing to listen or chat about particular problems or offer advice if asked.
Sightline Vision North West[Lines are open 6pm to 10pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday]Operates on the days the Listening Eye is not available.
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