Disability Aids and Services
Below you will find an alphabetical list (A to Z) of organisations offering Disability Aids support. You can also search for a specific organisation using the search button on the right hand side.
Click on any organisation’s link below to open their full details. We welcome feedback and queries or report problems you experience via our contact page.
You may find it also useful to look at Direct Gov for guidance.
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An online disability directory of disabled information, aids and mobility services.
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Sells a wide range of disability aids, mainly in the north-west, with a store at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen, Oswestry, Supplies also available online.
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Action Deafness works with Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deafened and Deafblind children, young people, adults and older people across Leicester, Leicestershire and the East Midlands.
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RNID has changed its name! It is now Action on Hearing Loss Their new website with useful information can be accessed via www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk Information Line: Telephone 0808 808 0123 (freephone) Textphone 0808 808 9000 (freephone Email: informationline@hearingloss.org.uk Address: 19-23 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8SL The Action on Hearing Loss is Britain’s leading charity working with [...]
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A wide selection of innovative adaptive clothing specially designed to make dressing easier for the elderly and disabled.
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Aquamira provides a Specialist Day Service for adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities who live within Shropshire.
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Autism West Midlands aims to improve the quality of life for people with autistic spectrum disorders and their families. The Shropshire Autism Development Team is part of the Woodlands ASD Outreach Service and has three Autism WM Development Co-ordinators.
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Berwick Care Equipment sell Scooters & wheelchairs, bath lifts, beds, chairs & furniture, wheel walkers, stair Lifts, new and used.
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BT products that can help with hearing, sight dexterity or mobility loss; try before you buy, exhibitions at events, help with communications, getting online.
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This list of local companies is for reference only. SDN cannot make recommendations or endorsements regarding individual homes or agencies.
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The website links below are links to websites that specifically support the needs of Carers. some of them are local to Shropshire, and others are national or regional. Please let us know if you findany thatyou think would be helpful to others and we will add them too. If you are registered on the website just [...]
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Easy fit clothing and footwear designed to provide lightweight warmth and comfort.
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Website: www.sensoryimpairment.org.uk Contact: Chairman Tom Kane, 105 Purbeck Dale, Dawley, Telford. TF4 2QP Email: tomkane57@yahoo.co.uk Please title email “Deaf and Hard of Hearing Forum” Phone: 01952 418056 (this Tom’s home number) The Forum’s aim is to provide a means by those who are affected by hearing impairment in the county of Shropshire and the borough of Telford and [...]
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Theatre Severn is committed to increasing the number of Sign Language Interpreted performances by working with companies who include SLI as an integral part of their productions. The theatre said “We always promote an SLI performance within our pantomime season. See our brochure for further details or enquire at the Box Office when booking your [...]
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An on-line company supplying adaptive clothing for the elderly and disabled. Designed to Care’s adaptive clothing make it easier to dress and be dressed.
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Supplying Disability Information, Opportunities, Products and Resources to the Worldwide Disability Community, Disabled World is an online community for disabled persons featuring the latest news and articles for people with disabilities.
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Address: 5 Dawley Road Arleston, Telford, Shropshire TF1 2HW, Telephone 01952 243 102
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The Grange Day Centre provides day opportunities to disabled people in Shropshire.
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You don’t need to have lost all your sight, or to be registered as blind or partially-sighted for Guide Dogs to help you. You just need to have sight loss that makes it difficult to get around independently or live life to the full.
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The Independent Living Partnership offers a range of disability training & services, including Access and Services Audits & Equality Impact Assessment.
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IT Can Help is a network of volunteers who are able to offer free local computer assistance to disabled people.
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A registered charity whose mission is to remove the barriers to the achievement of deaf children throughout the world.
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Quest 88 is a UK based company specialising in the design, manufacture and supply of therapy, mobility and rehabilitation equipment for children and adults.
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Remark! Interpreting is a deaf-run and deaf-led agency supplying interpreters and communication support workers to deaf people throughout the UK.
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The sensory impairment service works with people who are hard of hearing, deaf with speech, deaf without speech, severely sight impaired/blind, sight impaired/partially sighted and people who have a dual sensory impairment or are deaf blind.
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Contact details for local support
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Shopmobility is a scheme which lends manual wheelchairs, powered wheelchairs and powered scooters to members of the public with limited mobility to shop and to visit leisure and commercial facilities within the town, city or shopping centre.
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If you live in Shropshire and have a physical disability there are a range of services that we can offer or arrange for you.
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PCAS is an advocacy service for people with any type of disability, helping people who live in Shropshire or Telford and Wrekin boroughs.
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Shropshire Voluntary Helping Hand Association organises pastoral care by home, hospital, hospice and residential home visiting, and social outings, for members.
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The group is involved in a wide variety of issues.
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Parent Partnership Services offer information advice and support to parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN).
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A new SIBS group for brothers and sisters of children with disabilities is starting in Oswestry, following up the group in Bridgnorth which started summer 2010.
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Sign Health has been working for over 20 years to improve the health of deaf people – initially in mental health and now more generally.
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Psychological therapy is often the best way of overcoming our mental health problem.
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A group for parents and families of children with insulin dependent diabetes (associated with Diabetes UK).
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We are a national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of impairment in post-16 education, training and employment.
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Works to raise awareness of the needs and problems disabled people have in relation to access issues.
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Speakability is the national charity that works with people with aphasia.
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The STAA group in Telford meets to support the parents and carers of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder including Asperger’s Syndrome and ADHD
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Steps – local helpline for parents/carers of children with lower limb abnormalities.
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We have a Facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wrekin-Telford-Stroke-Club/255975447768167 with basic information on the group. There is also a secondary page where people can be added to as ‘friends’ if they wish. Our contact information by phone is: 0845 833 95 85 (a number kindly loaned by Lions Club of Telford for the group) which allows anyone to call [...]
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Information on the rights of disabled children in education; contacts to local government providers; charitable organisations concerned with the disabled and education; organisations that provide information on accessible technology.
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SVAB is a registered charity that helps and supports blind and visually impaired people of all ages in Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin.
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The campaign aims to increase public understanding of autism, so that children and young people with autism and their families do not have to feel isolated, excluded or judged.
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NTN&M provides national newspapers and magazines in a variety of accessible formats, for visually impaired and print disabled people who find reading a strain.
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This website, Focus on Disability, for Disabled People and their Carers, provides contact details for a large number of helplines and services focused on Disability. Just follow the link below to see what it offers. Disability – Telephone Helplines for Disability and Carers Please be aware that the website also contains advertisements and SDN cannot provide [...]
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This website provides a list of up to date phone numbers and web and email contact details for a large number of helpline services, with a particular focus on the likely needs of those with disability and their carers. Follow this link to the website to find out if there is anything there to help [...]
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The objectives of The Telephones for the Blind Fund are the relief of the blind by providing telephones for the benefit of the blind residents
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Telford Mind provides a diverse range of quality services, across the County for the one in four people and their families acknowledged to be affected by mental or emotional distress.
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Our current staff and projects are about addressing inequalities and tackling discrimination and harassment in Telford & Wrekin.
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THE CHARITY provides educational, recreational and leisure facilities for mentally, physically and sensory disabled users.
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The word Arthrogryposis literally means curved joint, implying that it is fixed or stuck in the curved position.
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The Disabled Motorists Federation offer a variety of services to assist disabled drivers
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The Project Group is a voluntary arts based community business whose members are, or have been, in touch with Adult Mental Health Services. Membership is achieved through a successful referral process, initiated by a mental health worker, psychiatrist or GP within Shropshire and South Staffordshire.
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The main objective of the Sequel Trust is to provide relief to children and adults who are severely disabled and depend on electronic communication aids and adaptations to alleviate their problems.
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A national charity that provides training and work opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in the labour market due to disability.
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The Stroke Association is concerned with combating stroke in people of all ages.
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THT is a registered charity that offers a very wide range of support services for people affected by HIV
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The Community Transport scheme is run by 8 different schemes across Shropshire. All of them use volunteers, have mini buses and can provide group or individual travel services. All of them have wheelchair access vehicles. If you can’t use public transport, or simply don’t have accessto it, the community transport scheme is there to help. [...]
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Accessible/affordable transport in Northern Shropshire to enable people who don’t have access to transport to participate in a wide range of arts events.
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UCanDoIT is a charity teaching blind, deaf and disabled people a range of computer skills including email, the Internet and basic word processing in their own homes.
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Provides professional communication services for Deaf, deafblind and hard-of-hearing people living in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.
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The Wellington Cottage Care day centre offers day care to adults with disabilities and nursing care needs from qualified nurses, therapists and health care assistants.
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A voluntary organisation situated in We provide support, training, work opportunities and recreational activities for people with learning disabilities in Ludlow, South Shropshire.
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WRVS can help in the home, in the community, in hospitals, in emergencies and disasters and with the Armed Forces.
