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British Deaf Association (BDA) Floor 10, Coventry Point Markey Way Coventry, CV1 1EA TTY: +44 024 76 550 393 Voice: +44 024 76 550 936 Fax: +44 024 76 221 541 headoffice@bda.org.uk http://bda.org.uk
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Promotes a society in which Sign Language users have the same rights, responsibilities, opportunities, and quality of life as everyone else. Promotes bilingual education for deaf children. Has several offices throughout the UK.
Signature (formerly known as Council for Advancement of Communication with Deaf People) Durham Office Signature Mersey House Mandale Business Park Belmont Durham DH1 1TH Text: 0191 383 7915 Tel: 0191 383 1155Fax: 0191 383 7914 durham@signature.org.uk
NRCPD c/o Mersey House Mandale Business Park Belmont Durham DH1 1TH Text: 0191 383 7915 Tel: 0191 383 1155Fax: 0191 383 7914 enquiries@nrcpd.org.uk
Northern Ireland Office Signature Wilton House 5 College Square North Belfast BT1 6AR Text/Tel/Fax: 028 90 438161 nireland@signature.org.uk
Scotland Office Signature TouchBase Community Suite 43 Middlesex Street Glasgow G41 1EE Text: 0141 418 7193 Tel: 0141 418 7191 Fax: 0141 418 7192 glasgow@signature.org.uk
deafPLUS BVSC, The Centre for Voluntary Action 138 Digbeth Birmingham, B5 6DR, United Kingdom Phone/Txt Msg: (44) 0121 678 8850 SMS/Txt Msg: (44) 0792 006 0165 Fax: (44) 0121 643 4541 midlands@deafplus.org (Birmingham Office) info@deafplus.org (National Office) www.deafplus.org
deafPLUS works to encourage integration and equality between deaf and hearing people in all areas of life. Our services consist of advocacy, social and personal development events.
Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) 18 Westside Centre, London Road Stanway, Colchester, CO3 8PH Minicom: 0845 688 2527 Tel: 0845 688 2525SMS: 07851 423866 info@royaldeaf.org.uk
The RAD exists to promote the welfare and interests of deaf people (by which we mean deaf people whose first or preferred language is sign language).
Royal National Institute for Deaf People 19-23 Featherstone Street London EC1Y 8SL TTY: (44) 207-296-8001 Tel: (44) 207-296-8000 Fax: (44) 207-296-8199 informationline@rnid.org.uk http://www.rnid.org.uk
Provides a range of information, referral, employment, care, and training services for deaf and hard of hearing people. Offers a wide range of fact sheets and other informational resources for deaf and hard of hearing people and their family, friends, employers, and professionals. Includes an extensive list of organizations in the UK.
SignHealth 5 Baring Road Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire HP9 2NB United Kingdom Text: 01494 687626 Voice: 01494 687600 SMS/Text Msg: 07966 976749 Fax: 01494 687622 info@signhealth.org.uk https://signhealth.org.uk/
Works to improve healthcare and equal access for deaf people.
Deafblind Organizations in UK
Bristol Royal Society for the Blind Dual Sensory Loss Service (BRSB) Still House Lane Bedminster Bristol BS3 4EB Minicom/Tel: 0117 953 7750 Fax: 0117 953 7751 RichardDualSensory@Classicfm.net
BRSB@compuserve.com
BRSB now provides information services for deaf-blind people and have a reference library of over 70 topics which they can make available on request in any language or format. They also run a deaf-blind awareness and profile raising service in the City of Bristol.
Deafblind UK
National Centre for Deafblindness John and Lucille van Geest Place Cygnet Road, Hampton Peterborough, PE7 8FD UK Text/Voice: 01733 358 100 Fax: 01733 358 356 Information and Advice Line: 0800 132 320 info@deafblind.org.uk https://deafblind.org.uk/
Deafblind UK was launched in 1928 by a small group of deafblind people and their carers to offer mutual support and understanding in the face of conditions they found ‘unjustifiably cruel and hard.’ Since then, Deafblind UK has developed into a national charity chaired by a deafblind person.
Deafblind Cymru Trident Court Eastmoors Road Cardiff CF24 5TD Tel: 02920 601 471 deafblindcymru@deafblind.org.uk
Deafblind Scotland Drena O’Malley, Development Manager (contact person) 21 Alexandra Avenue Lenzie, G66 5BG Minicom/Tel: 0141-777 6111 Fax: 0141-775 3311 info@deafblindscotland.org.uk http://www.deafblindscotland.org.uk
Deafblind Scotland is a charity whose aims are to further the interests and needs of people who suffer from both hearing and sight impairments (deafblindness), and also to generate public awareness of this condition. Deafblind Scotland And Deafblind UK are one organization.
Sense 101 Pentonville Road London N1 9LG Text: 0845 127 0062 T el: 0845 127 0060 Fax: 0845 127 0061 info@sense.org.uk http://www.sense.org.uk/
Sense is the leading national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. We provide expert advice and information as well as specialist services to deafblind people, their families, carers and the professionals who work with them. We also support people who have sensory impairments with additional disabilities.
Sense Avon Branch Mandie Lewis (contact person) 74 Pendennis Park, Brislington Bristol, BS4 4JN Tel: (0117) 987 7927 mandie.lewis@blueyonder.co.uk
Sense North and Mid Wales Jane Plant (contact person) Gode’r Graig Pentree, Minera Wrexham, LL11 3DP Sense South West, Devon Branch Cathy Hooper (contact person) 26 Mulberry Close, Paignton Devon, TQ3 3GD Tel: (01803) 663044 tiggersloveto@hotmail.com
Sense East Anglia Branch Liz Royle (contact person) The Lanterns, Church Lane Playford, Ipswich Suffolk, IP6 9DS Tel: (01473) 622443
Sense Essex Branch Peggy Keeble (contact person) 17, Gladwyns, Lee Chapel North, Basildon, Essex, SS15 5HZ Tel: (01268) 544593 sense_essex@hotmail.com
Sense Kent Branch Sue Turner (contact person) Spring Grove, Goudhurst Road Marden, Tonbridge Kent, TN12 9NW Tel: (01622) 831345 sgturner@talktalk.net
Sense North West Branch Brenda Carter (contact person) 3, The Briars Eccleston, Chorley Lancashire, PR7 5UB Tel: (01257) 451920 jackcarter@talktalk.net
Sense Northern Ireland Branch Muriel and Tom Mathers (contact persons) 11, The Coaches Brown Brae, Croft Road Holywood, BT18 0LE Tel: (028) 9042 1475 murielmathers@btinternet.com
Sense South Coast Branch Jill Carpenter (contact person) 12, Maurice Road, Seaford East Sussex, BN25 1BQ Tel: (01323) 490750 jill.seafordbay@virgin.net
Interpreters’ and Sign Language Organizations in the UK
Association of British Sign Language Tutors and Assessors (ABSLTA) Charles Herd, Secretary (contact person) 66 Castle Drive, Horley, Surrey, RH6 9DE. Fax: 01293 772 358 enquiry@abslt.org.uk c.herd@sky.com (For enquiries relating to the teaching and assessing of BSL)
Description: ABSLTA is an Association for professional Sign Language Tutors & Assessors and for those interested in the teaching & assessing of British Sign Language as a profession. It is the co-ordinating body between Sign Language Tutors & Assessors throughout England Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is formed in April 1989 in response to many requests from deaf tutors & assessors who wanted a forum for advice, support and exchange of information relating to BSL teaching & assessing issues.
Association of Sign Language Interpreters (ASLI) Fortuna House, South Fifth Street Milton Keynes. MK9 2EU Text: 18001 0871 474 0522* Tel: 0871 474 0522** Calls to this number will cost 10p per minute from a BT landline, charges may vary with other network providers Fax: 01908 32 52 59 General enquiries:office@asli.org.uk Membership enquiries (existing members only):membership@asli.org.uk Finance & Accounts:accounts@asli.org.uk
ASLI is the professional association and support network for British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Our membership includes those who work as interpreters and deaf and hearing people who support our aims.
Parents’ Organizations in the UK
National Deaf Children’s Society NDCS head office 15 Dufferin Street London EC1Y 8UR United Kingdom Text/Tel: 020 7490 8656 Fax: 020 7251 5020 ndcs@ndcs.org.uk (National office) localgroups@ndcs.org.uk (Local groups information) http://www.ndcs.org.uk/
Works to remove barriers to the achievement of deaf children throughout the world. Consult its website for a listing of local groups for parents in the UK and for more information on NDCS offices in London, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Birmington. Also consult its site for more useful links and organizations for deaf people and their families in the UK.
NDCS Northern Ireland Wilton House 5 College Square North Belfast BT1 6AR Minicom: 028 9027 8177 Tel: 028 9031 3170 Fax: 028 9027 8205 nioffice@ndcs.org.uk
NDCS Scotland Second Floor Empire House 131 West Nile Street Glasgow G1 2RX Text: 0141 332 6133 Tel: 0141 354 7850 Fax: 0141 331 2780 ndcs.scotland@ndcs.org.uk
NDCS Wales/Cymru 4 Cathedral Road Cardiff CF11 9LJ Minicom: 029 2023 2739 Tel: 029 2037 3474 Fax: 029 2037 9800 ndcswales@ndcs.org.uk
NDCS Birmingham office – children and family events 37a Great Charles Street Birmingham B3 3JY Minicom: 0121 234 9820 Tel: 0121 234 9820 Fax: 0121 233 9575 events@ndcs.org.uk
Teachers’ Organizations in the UK
British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD) 21, Keating Close Rochester Medway, Kent ME1 1EQ United Kingdom Phone/Fax: 0845 6435181 secretary@batod.org.uk http://www.batod.org.uk
BATOD is the sole professional association for teachers of the deaf in the UK. Organizes courses and meetings to disseminate good practice and produces a magazine and a refereed Journal. Works with the government and voluntary agencies to contribute to policy development and to represent the interests of deaf children, their families and their teachers. Website offers links to more organizations.
Universities in the UK
Centre for Deaf Studies University of Bristol 8 Woodland Road Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TN Videophone: (44) 0 117 970 6253 TTY: (44) 0 117-954-6920 Phone: (44) 0 117-954-6900 Fax: (44) 0 117-954-6921 enquiries-cds@bristol.ac.uk http://www.bris.ac.uk /deaf
Europe’s first academic Institution to concentrate solely on research and education that aims to benefit the deaf community.
Cross-disability Organizations in the UK
Disability Alliance Universal House 88-94 Wentworth Street London, E1 7SA Minicom/Voice: 020 7247 8776 Fax: 020 7247 8765 For general enquiries:office@disabilityalliance.org For membership queries: member@disabilityalliance.org For sales queries:zuzana@disabilityalliance.org For website comments:webmaster@disabilityalliance.org http://www.disabilityalliance.org/
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