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N.E. Region Visual Impairment & The Rothay Consultancy Tapes - Help and Information.Domestic Aids
Numerous Aids are available to assist general living
Those Marked * are normally available free from your LA Social Services and subject use instruction where appropriate. Others can be supplied by the organisations listed at the end. Please look below for new items.
Regular Aids:
*Templates for addressing letters, benefit books, cheque books, etc.
*Liquid level detectors
*Long and symbol white canes
*Bus, Help and Taxi request signs
*Coin holders
*Speaking watches, timers, clocks and calendars.
Food preparation devices, speaking scales and microwave ovens.
Medicine dispensers, speaking thermometers, blood testers, blood pressure meters and bathroom scales.
Needle threaders, knitting needle gauge and counters.
Speaking calculators fluorescent desk lights, embossing labellers in Braille and Moon (available from 'Finga Labels' 0115 960 7724)
Audio measures and spirit levels
Gardening equipment.
Braille tools, note takers, embosser and gadgets.
*Stick on bumper pads.
'Slade coloured buttons' shaped buttons which you can sew onto clothes to remind you of the colour of the garment - helps with matching shades available from RNIB
Moon tools.
Games and puzzles.
Audio described videos. and DVDs
Speaking VCR remote controllers.
Most chemists will issue tablets in daily dispensers or medipacks - you must ask!
Most of the above can be supplied by RNIB
Another good fast supplier of some of the above items is Cobolt Systems Ltd., 01493 700172 Fax 01493 701037
Lost trowels in the garden? Get yourself an 'audio locator' or the much cheaper option of a 'wireless door chime' from DIYs for about £10. Just make sure your portable chime is near the garden tools you are using, when you are distracted and want to find them later - press your portable door push so that the chime rings and you will hear where they are!
New items:
RNIB regularly publish "Welcome to the World of" which gives updates and new domestic equipment suitable for VIP's.
Post Offices now have a 'Helping Hands Pack' with small items to aid the V.I. and the infirm - Just ask at any Post Office.
Various personal and domestic security, safety and assistance items are sold by Innotech 20000 details: 01244 520 805.
Tactile calendars now being sold by the Fieldsman Trust: 01352 756202