Education and Training
Below you will find an alphabetical list (A to Z) of organisations offering education and training 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 and Open University Services for Disabled Students
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A national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology.
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Provides information, training and support for parents, sufferers and professionals in the fields of ADHD and related learning and behavioural difficulties.
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Phone or check the website for information about library branches, mobile libraries and the Community Care Mobile Library, providing services to older people and disabled people across Shropshire.
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The Arthritis Research Campaign (arc) raises funds to promote medical research into the cause, treatment and cure of arthritic conditions.
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The Research group is primarily a committee; it meets to organise fund-raising activities, usually collecting from Supermarkets and Garden Centres etc. All monies collected are sent direct to Arthritis Research UK.
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Promotes early identification and support in schools to ensure opportunity to learn for dyslexic learners. They represent the needs of dyslexic people on leaving school, in higher education and in work.
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Short Breaks provide opportunities for disabled children and young people to spend time away from their primary carers. This includes day, evening, overnight or weekend activities, which can take place in the child’s own home, the home of an approved carer, or a residential or community setting. Short Breaks can also be provided through a [...]
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Childcare introductory service that recruits, screens and trains care-workers, bringing together families with disabled children and people who want to work caring for them.
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Deafness Research UK is a medical charity for deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Derwen College is committed to promoting, through personalised learning, the vocational, educational, personal and social development of young people with a wide range of learning difficulties and disabilities.
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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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Epilepsy Active (based in Shropshire) aims to provide professional, accessible and research based epilepsy training to a diverse range of organisations.
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IT Learning Resources is a new website being developed by Flavia Humphreys, Shropshire Broadplaces Support Officer, to help people become more confident using IT.
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An employment and work related training organisation providing one-to-one, individual support for people with learning disabilities.
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The OU offer a wide range of support services and facilities to enable students to succeed in their studies.
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Offers services for: People with autistic spectrum disorders / People with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties.
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Do you produce information for patients and the public about their health?
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Big Lottery-funded project running 2009-2012, aiming to develop an infrastructure support service to assist disability organisations, with business skills and capacity building.
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A college for people who are blind or partially sighted.
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Shropshire Family Information Service (0-19) provides free information, advice and support on all aspects of family life, whether you are expecting a baby or the parent or carer of a teenager.
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The Shropshire Infrastructure Partnership is a consortium of several voluntary sector organisations, all of which provide support to other voluntary and community groups across Shropshire. By working together the partners can maximise the impact of their services.
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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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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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Welcome to Social Welfare Training. We provide quality welfare benefits training and consultancy based on legal rights. We can also provide courses on immigration and debt advice.
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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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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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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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THE CHARITY provides educational, recreational and leisure facilities for mentally, physically and sensory disabled users.
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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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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 WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva.
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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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U3A stands for the University of the Third Age, which is a self-help organisation for people no longer in full time employment providing educational, creative and leisure opportunities in a friendly environment.
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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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A voluntary organisation situated in We provide support, training, work opportunities and recreational activities for people with learning disabilities in Ludlow, South Shropshire.
