Useful Links
Local
Reading Association for the Blind
BBC Radio Berkshire
Berkshire NHS
Berkshire Vision
Reading Council
Readibus
ReadiBus' principal service is a telephone-booked accessible bus service and it is available door-to-door across a large part of Central and West Berkshire and South Oxfordshire.
Reading libraries
Reading libraries new titles page
On this page you can find links to the latest additions to their audio & large print titles.
Reading Chronicle
Reading Evening Post
Local talking newspapers
Henley Talking Newspaper
Richard Hodgkin, Chairman, 01491 573192
email: hodgkin3@waitrose.com
Caroline Green, Secretary, 01628 826181
email: caroline@carolinegreen.co.uk
Bracknell TN Tel:01344 304567
Didcot Abingdon & Wantage TN
Maidenhead & District TN Ass
Newbury & District TN Tel:01635 200443
Swindon TN
Bedford Talking Newspaper for the Blind (BDAN)
National
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Counselling Directory
They only lists counsellors and psychotherapists
who are members of a recognised professional body or those who have sent them copies of their qualifications and insurance cover.
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Macular Disease Society
Infosound
InfoSound offers free, accessible, impartial and relevant information for those in the UK who live with sight loss
Support and information for vision impaired Employees
Talking News Federation
A national organisation with links and information about the large number of local Talking Newspaper services across the United Kingdom.
Add-Venture in Learning
This is a membership organisation which plans to continue providing courses which give access to life-long learning for disabled people. It was set up by students, tutors, and guides in October 2006 when the University of Bristol announced that the Centre for Access and Communication Studies would close after 25 years of successfully organising adult education courses for visually impaired students.
Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom
Talking Newspapers - Local talking newspapers directory
British wireless for the Blind
Thrive
(Thrive is the national horticultural charity based at Beech Hill just out side Reading).
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Suppliers of Audible equipment for sensory impaired persons.
Insight Radio a radio station manned by vision impaired persons
Talking Computers
A monthly audio USB drive for the vision impaired computer user, now you can listen to it on line.
Calibre Audio Library
Carers Direct (NHS)
Partially Sighted Society
The Accessible Friends Network
UK Association for Accessible
Formats