Aims: The Back-Up Trust inspires people to transform their lives after spinal cord injury. The charity challenges perceptions of disability and run services which grow confidence and independence and offer a supportive network. Services provided: Hold wheelchair skills services at spinal centres and in communities across Scotland and the rest of the UK which are…
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MND Scotland
Aims: To ensure that with people with Motor Neurone Disease secure the care and support they need. Services provided: Advocacy service Specialist equipment loan service Welfare and benefits service Online support groups Grants for people with MND and their care givers Chalet breaks near Oban and St Andrews 1-1 Counselling service. Bereavement support membership: Open…
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Aims: To provide captioning services for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people who wish to enjoy arts and entertainment. Services provided: Offering: Captioning for theatre productions, and live subtitling comedy and talks, similar to television subtitles Speech to text provision using the same equipment for talks and workshops Deaf Awareness Training focuses on arts…
CALL Scotland
To provide services and carry out research and development projects across Scotland working with all those involved in meeting the needs of people who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and / or specialised technology use, particularly in education. Services provided: An assessment and support service for a small number of children with complex communication,…
Children in Scotland
Aims: To provide independent and impartial advice and information about additional support for learning to parents, carers, children, young people and professionals who work with them. To raise awareness of additional support for learning so that children and young people get the most that they can from their education. Services provided: Enquire offers free, independent…
Scottish Cot Death Trust
Aims: To support bereaved families, to raise awareness of cot death and associated risks and to fund research into sudden and unexpected death in infancy (SUDI): Provision of breathing monitors to all infants born into a family that has suffered cot death Raise awareness of cot death and ways of reducing the risks Support for…