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Specific Disability Organisations
(A to Z)
Blind/Partially Sighted
Deaf/Hard of Hearing
Deafblind
Dyslexia/Dyspraxia
Learning Disability
Mental Health
Multiple Sclerosis
Physical Disability
Autism/Aspergers Syndrome
Information and advice on autism and aspergers syndrome. Also runs schools and day centres.
www.autism.org.uk
Blind/Partially Sighted
Association of Blind and Partially Sighted Teachers and Students (ABAPSTAS)
The only national organisation of visually impaired people which focuses on education and employment issues. ABAPSTAS is a self-help and campaigning organisation and its members include people who have moved into careers other than teaching.
Action for Blind People
An expert national organisation providing free and confidential support for blind and partially sighted people in all aspects of their lives. Offers practical support, advice, holiday breaks and children’s sports clubs to visually impaired people throughout the UK. Also run the Actionnaires Sports clubs - free multi-sports sessions run by professional coaches for blind and partially sighted children and young people of all abilities.
www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk
Cue and Review
Cue & Review Recording Service provide a range of 22 different magazines and newspapers on audio tape free of charge to the visually and reading impaired.
www.cueandreview.org.uk
Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB)
www.rnib.org.uk
www.rnib.org.uk/student (RNIB's student site)
Deaf/Hard of Hearing
British Deaf Association (BDA)
www.bda.org.uk
Deaf Sports Promotions
www.deafsports.org.uk
Deaf Ex-Mainstreamers Group
www.dex.org.uk
HiYPE! for Hearing Impaired Younger People
www.hiype.org.uk
National Deaf Children's Society (NCDS)
www.ndcs.org.uk
Parent2Parent Network
A new online service for parents and guardians of deaf children, launched by the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) and the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP).
It allows parents and guardians of deaf children to search and contact other families with deaf children in their local area or across the UK. Searches can be made by location, age of child, the level of the child’s hearing loss and the preferred language of the parents.
Royal National Institute for Deaf People
www.rnid.org.uk
WorkingWithoutHearing
www.workingwithouthearing.com
Deafblind
Sense - The National Deafblind and Rubella Association
www.sense.org.uk
Dyslexia/Dyspraxia
The British Dyslexia Association
www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk
The Dyslexia Institute
www.dyslexia-inst.org.uk
Dyspraxia Foundation
www.emmbrook.demon.co.uk/dysprax/homepage.htm
Learning Disability
MENCAP (for people with learning disabilities)
www.mencap.org.uk
Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities)
www.learningdisabilities.org.uk
United Response
United Response supports people with learning disabilities and mental health problems to have the things they want and need in their lives.
www.unitedresponse.org.uk
Mental Health
Clear Thoughts (the Mental Health in Learning Disability knowledge centre)www.clearthoughts.info
This website is for people who have a learning disability, their families and carers, and the professionals working with them. It provides information and resources on topics relating to mental health.
Mental Health Foundation
www.mentalhealth.org.uk
MIND National Association for Mental Health
www.mind.org.uk
NSIP (National Social Inclusion Programme)
www.socialinclusion.org.uk
Rethink (formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship)
www.rethink.org
Rethink works to support everyone affected by severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Association of Spina Bifida and Hydrcaphelus
www.asbah.demon.co.uk
United Response
United Response supports people with learning difficulties and mental health problems to have the things they want and need in their lives.
www.unitedresponse.org.uk
Multiple Sclerosis
MS Life
www.mslife.co.uk
Physical Disability
Scope (for people with cerebral palsy)
www.scope.org.uk
[Updated March 2009]
