Hearing

Action on Hearing Loss (new name for RNID)

This is a large charity providing support for people with hearing loss and tinnitus. They provide day-to-day care for people who are deaf and have additional needs, supply communication services and training, offer practical advice to help people protect their hearing and campaign to change public policy around hearing loss issues.

Connevans

Connevans specialises in meeting the needs of people who are deaf or hearing impaired.

Ewing Foundation

Ewing Foundation Consultants and Technicians work with Teachers of the Deaf and other professionals to help deaf children succeed in a variety of educational settings.

Family Centre for Deaf Children

The Family Centre for Deaf Children aims to bring together families living with deafness through organised children’s activities and family sessions.

Forest Book Shop

A resource for Books, Dvd's, CD-roms & other learning material relating to Deafness and Deaf issues.

Hirstwood Training and Florich Productions - The multi sensory website

Multi sensory approaches to learning with ideas, in house training, current courses to attend and things to buy.

NDCS

The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) is a registered charity working for deaf children, young people and their families. It provides information and advice on childhood deafness and a helpline for parents and carers.

North Somerset Youth Club for Deaf Children

Phonak

Information about hearing acoustics.

Sense

Sense is a national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. They provide advice and information as well as specialist services to deafblind people, their families, carers and the professionals who work with them. They also support people who have sensory impairments with additional disabilities.

Usher's Syndrome

UsherLife is a dedicated website for people who have Usher syndrome. 

Vision

Achromatopsia

The Achromatopsia Group is a support group, and discussion forum for individuals, families, & friends of people affected by this rare vision disorder also called rod monochromacy.

Action for Blind People (Actionaries)

The children, young people and family service provides a wide range of opportunities for blind and partially sighted children, young people and their families as well as activities and clubs for VI children.

Anophthalmia

Bringing support and families together to help children born with no eyes and partially developed eyes

BEH Eye Clinic Liasion Officer (ECLO)

Based at the Bristol Eye Hospital, Emma McKeon provides a wide range of support to people with newly diagnosed visual impairment. Tel: 0117 342 3328

British Blind Sports

Sport information for VI children including Goalball (they are the national governing body)

Clearvision library

A UK postal lending library of children's books with added braille. The books are suitable for visually-impaired, sighted children and adults to share.

Glaucoma

The International Glaucoma Association (IGA) is a patient-based organisation which works to prevent glaucoma blindness by providing information, literature and advice.

Have Stick will Travel

In 1996 Daniel Gallimore, lost his sight trying to stop an attack on a young man in a Bristol Street. He now runs this website from which he gives talks on Blind Awareness and Anti Social Behaviour and raises money for blind projects.

Keratoconus

A charity working to raise awareness of Keratoconus and provide information and support for people in the UK with this rare eye condition.

LOOK

LOOK UK is a charitable support organisation for parents with visually imapired children

Marfan's Syndrome

this charity aims to increase awareness amongst the medical profession, provide support for patients, their families and medical professionals around the world. Their three main objectives are:Support, Education and Research.

Microphthalmia

Bringing support and families together to help children born with no eyes and partially developed eyes.

Myopia

National Blind Children's Society

A charity providing information, advice, support and services to blind and partially blind children. Help offered to families, carers and professionals.

Nystagmus

The Nystagmus Network (NN) is a UK charity run by individuals and families affected by the eye condition nystagmus. Nystagmus is characterised by an involuntary movement of the eyes, which often seriously reduces vision.

RNIB

Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UK's leading charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people with sight loss.

RNIB large print library

RNIB National Library Service is the largest library in the UK for readers with sight loss. They offer a wide choice of fiction and non-fiction books in audio, braille and giant print for adults and children.

The Lazy Eye Site

The Lazy Eye Site is designed to enhance awareness of the treatment of squints, lazy eyes and mis-alignment of the eyes in children and adults.

VI Scotland

A national organisation for people who work in the area of visual impairment to help visuallly impaired children and their parents

VICTAR

The aims of Visual Impairment Centre for Teaching And Research (VICTAR) at the University of Birmingham include:undertaking social and educational research in the area of VI; offering training in the area of VI and education and offering advice and resources within the field of VI.

VISION North Somerset

A charity which supports blind and partially sighted people in the local area. Mobility Officer - Mr Martin Rees Tel: 01934 419393

Weston College VI Resource base

Supporting 16+ years old students with vision impairment at Weston College

Young Calibre audio library

Young Calibre is a free postal library of audio books. It is for anyone under 16 who can't see properly, or has dyslexia or a physical ability which makes it difficult to read ordinary print.

Information

EARLY SUPPORT

Early Support supports parents and carers of disabled children aged five and under. It brings together all the services and support available from different agencies.

EARLY SUPPORT - DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL

The developmental journals help families track, record and celebrate their child’s progress through the early years.They are designed to support early intervention and enable joint working by improving everyone's understanding of the developmental processes involved and by providing a shared basis for discussion and information-sharing as a child grows and changes.

EARLY SUPPORT - DEVELOPMENTAL JOURNAL for Vision Impairment

The Developmental journal for babies and children with visual impairment is a comprehensive pack which encourages families to record and celebrate their child’s learning and development through the early years.

EARLY SUPPORT - MONITORING PROTOCOL for deaf babies and children

The Monitoring protocol for deaf babies and children is a comprehensive pack which encourages families to record and celebrate their child’s learning and development through the early years and provide a shared basis for discussion as a child grows and changes.

Scope

Scope is a charity that supports disabled people and their families

Springboard Opportunity groups

Springboard's aim is to support children with additional needs from birth to 5 years and their families, in North Somerset.

Supportive Parents

Supportive Parents is a parent-led organisation providing the Parent Partnership Service for Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. This service is confidential and provides independent parental support to parents of children with special educational needs.

The Parent Partnership Service - BANES

The Parent Partnership Service provides parents of children with additional needs, aged 0-19 years, with impartial information, advice and support.