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Disability
West
Sussex County Council social services provides a wide range of services to
people with disabilities, including special equipment. For more information
about the services they provide see :
- WSCC
: People with disabilities including :
- Adults with disabilities or learning difficulties
- Children with disabilities and special needs
- Disabled blue badge scheme (www.westsussex.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7769)
Below you will find details of :
The Adur District Council website also contains other pages that may be of interest or use to those with a disability, these are listed in the 'related sections on this website' section of this page (in the right hand column).
See also :
- Disabled parking : Blue Badges, on street parking and requests for disabled parking bays
- Adur District Council's Equalities Policy and Three Year Equalities Scheme (incorporating the Race Equality Scheme and the Disability Equality Scheme).
RADAR key scheme
For more information about RADAR keys please see our public toilets page.
Useful external websites :
- Accessible Countryside (www.accessiblecountryside.org.uk)
- Action on Hearing Loss (previously the RNID) (www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk)
- Adur Special Needs Project (www.adurspecialneedsproject.com) : The Adur Special Needs Project (ASP) is a local registered charity committed to providing out-of-school respite and recreational activities for young people with special needs aged from five years.
- AIDIS Trust (www.aidis.org) helps Disabled People know how to maintain and adapt their computer. Their telephone helpline gives straightforward, non techie advice on computers and adaptations - see their website for details.
- Alzheimer's Society (www.alzheimers.org.uk)
- AMAZE (www.amazebrighton.org.uk): Gives information, advice and support to parents of children with special needs in Brighton & Hove, but their website has a wealth of useful information and links useful to all parents and carers everywhere)
- Arthritis Care (www.arthritiscare.org.uk)
- Autism :
- Sussex Autistic Society (www.sussexautisticsociety.org)
- National Autistic
Society (www.nas.org.uk)
- British Complementary Medicine Association (www.bcma.co.uk)
- British Institute of Learning Disability (BILD) (www.bild.org.uk)
- Cancer : MacMillan Cancer Support (www.macmillan.org.uk)
- Cancer : CLIC Sargent - Caring for Children and Young People with Cancer (www.clicsargent.org.uk)
- Carers Direct : NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk/carersdirect/Pages/CarersDirectHome.aspx)
- Carers UK - Directgov : Caring for someone (www.direct.gov.uk/en/CaringForSomeone)
- Contact a
Family (for parent carers) (www.cafamily.org.uk)
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to look up benefits or local benefits agencies etc. (www.dwp.gov.uk)
- Department of Transport - Access for disabled people (www.dft.gov.uk/transportforyou/access/)
- Diabetes UK (www.diabetes.org.uk)
- Directgov : Caring for someone (www.direct.gov.uk/en/CaringForSomeone)
- Directgov : Disabled people (www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople)
- Directgov : Social services (www.direct.gov.uk/en/Hl1/Help/Socialservices/index.htm)
- Disability Now (www.disabilitynow.org.uk, was www.disability.gov.uk - now moved)
- Disability Rights Commission (now the Equality and Human Right Commission) (www.equalityhumanrights.com)
- Disability Sport Events (www.disabilitysport.org.uk)
- Disabled Living Foundation (www.dlf.org.uk)
- Down’s Heart Group (www.dhg.org.uk) : Parent friendly support and information relating to heart conditions associated with Down's Syndrome.
- Down’s Syndrome Association (www.downs-syndrome.org.uk)
- Dyslexia
Action (previously the Dyslexia Institute) (www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/) :
Dedicated to successful learning for Dyslexic people. There may be charges
for some services.
- Epilepsy:
- Epilepsy Action (www.epilepsy.org.uk)
- Epilepsy Society (www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/Homepage)
- Equality
and Human Right Commission (previously the Disability Rights Commission) (www.equalityhumanrights.com)
- FAST (Foundation for Assistive Technology) (www.fastuk.org) : brings innovative products to market and improves services for disabled and older people.
- Focus
on Disability (www.focusondisability.org.uk)
- ICIS - Carers section (www.icis-info4life.org.uk/ICISonline/)
- Impact Initiatives (www.impact-initiatives.org.uk)
- Independent
Living Association (West Sussex) (www.ilawestsussex.org)
- Joseph Rowntree
Foundation (www.jrf.org.uk)
- Mencap (www.mencap.org.uk) see also Mencap Local Groups (www.mencap.org.uk/node/3832)
- Motability (www.motability.co.uk)
- Motor Neurone Disease Association (www.mndassociation.org)
- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (www.mssociety.org.uk)
- Multiple Sclerosis - Sussex Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Centre (www.mssussex.com)
- Muscular
Dystrophy Campaign (www.muscular-dystrophy.org)
- National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) (www.ncil.org.uk)
- National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (www.nice.org.uk)
- Parkinson's Disease Society (www.parkinsons.org.uk)
- Polio : British Polio Fellowship (www.britishpolio.org.uk)
- Princess Royal
Trust for Carers (www.carers.org)
- RADAR - The Disability Rights People (www.radar.org.uk)
- RNIB : The Royal National Institute of Blind People (www.rnib.org.uk)
- RNID (The Royal National Institute for Deaf People) - now called Action on Hearing Loss (www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk)
- Skill : National bureau for students with disabilities (www.skill.org.uk)
- Special needs cycling (search set up on Google) (www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=special+needs+cycling&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB)
- Stammering : British Stammering Association (www.stammering.org)
- Stroke Association (www.stroke.org.uk)
- Telecare
- clear practical advice on daily living equipment (www.livingmadeeasy.org.uk/telecare/)
- Wellspring West Sussex - information for parents and carers (www.wellspringwestsussex.org.uk)
- WSCC
: People with disabilities including :
- Adults with disabilities or learning difficulties
- Children with disabilities and special needs
- Disabled blue badge scheme (www.westsussex.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7769) - WSCC : Social care and health webpages (www.westsussex.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7699)
