Useful Links
Links are listed alphabetically in the following categories. Please click on a category title to see the list of links...
Accessibility
IBM Home Page Reader
- Popular screen reader
- Website: http://www-306.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/hpr.html
Internet Explorer
- Internet Explorer Accessibility features
- Website: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie6/default.aspx
Jaws
- Popular screen reader
- Website: http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp
Microsoft Windows
- Comparison of Accessibility Features in Various Versions of Windows
- Website: www.microsoft.com/enable/products/chartwindows.aspx
Databases
Children's Information Database
- Information on Services for Children in Slough
- Phone: 01753-787828
Health Action Slough Database
- Website: http://www.berkshirehealth.org/
- Phone: 01753-635687
Menace Database
- Phone: 01753-511998
Slough Carers A-Z Directory
- Phone: 01753 545931
The Asian Health Directory
- Asian Health Agency
- Website: www.taha.org.uk
- Phone: 0208-7485769
National Support Groups
ABAPSTAS
- Assoc.of Blind and Partially Sighted Teachers and Students
- Website: http://www.abaptas.freeservers.com/
- Phone: 01484-517954
ACE
- Advisory Centre for Education
- Website: www.ace-ed.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-3548321
Action for Sick Children
- Website: http://www.actionforsickchildren.org/
- Phone: 0208-5424848
ADD/ADHD (Family Support Group)
- Website: http://www.pncl.co.uk/~prospero/adhd.html
- Phone: 01373-826045
Afasic
- Assoc.For All Speech Impaired Children
- Website: http://www.afasic.org.uk/
- Phone: 0207-8418900
Allergy Induced Autism (AIA)
- Website: http://www.kessick.demon.co.uk/
- Phone: 0121-4446450
Anaphylaxis Campaign
- Website: http://www.anaphylaxis.org.uk/
- Phone: 01252-542029
Arthritis Care
- Website: www.arthritiscare.org.uk
- Phone: 0808-80004050
ASBAH
- Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
- Website: http://www.asbah.org/
- Phone: 01733-555988
Asian People with Disabilities Alliance
- Phone: 0208-9616773 ~ 0208-4591030
- Email: APDMCHA@aol.com
Association of Young People with ME
- Website: http://www.ayme.org.uk/
- Phone: 01908-373300
ATTAXIA
- Friedreich's Ataxia Group
- Website: http://www.ataxia.org.uk/
- Phone: 0207-58214444
BDIN
- Berkshire Disability Information Network
- Phone: 01344-301572
- Email: bdin@freeserve.co.uk
Beat - beating eating disorders
- Website: www.b-eat.co.uk
- Phone: Youthline 0845 634 7650 Adult Helpline 0845 634 1414
- Email: info@b-eat.co.uk
BILD
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Website: www.bild.org.uk
- Phone: 01562-850251
BLISS
- Baby Life Support Systems
- Website: www.bliss.org.uk
- Phone: 0500-618140
Breakthrough
- Deaf Hearing Integration
- Website: www.breakthrough-dhi.org.uk
- Phone: 0121-4726447
- Email: info@breakthrough-dhi.org.uk
British Diabetic Association
- Website: www.diabetes.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-3231531
British Dyslexia Association
- Website: www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk
- Phone: 0118-9662677
British Epilepsy Association
- Website: www.epilepsy.org.uk
- Phone: 0808-8005050
Brittle Bone Society
- Website: www.brittlebone.org
- Phone: 08000-282459
Contact a Family (CaF)
- Website: www.cafamily.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-6088700
Contact for Disabled Children
- National Children's Bureau
- Website: www.ncb.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-8436000
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
- www.cftrust.org.uk
- Phone: 0208-4647211
DELTA
- Deaf Education Through Listening and Talking
- Website: www.deafeducation.org.uk
- Phone: 01440-783689
Disability Sport England
- Website: www.disabilitysport.org.uk
- Phone: 0208-8014466
Disabled Living Foundation
- Website: www.dlf.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-2896111
Down's Syndrome Association
- Website: www.dsa-uk.com
- Phone: 0208-6824001
Down's Syndrome Educational Trust
- Website: www.downsed.org
- Phone: 02392-824261
Dyspraxia Foundation
- Phone: 01462-454986
Eating Disorders Association
- Website: www.edauk.com
- Phone: 01603-621414
Fibromyalgia Association
- Phone: 01384-820052
- Email: fmsni@freeserve.co.uk
Foundation for Children with Leukaemia
- Website: www.leukaemia.org
- Phone: 0207-4040808
Fragile X Society
- Website: www.fragilex.org.uk
- Phone: 01424-813147
GLAD
- Greater London Assoc. for Disability
- Website: www.glad.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-3465800
Haemophilia Society
- Website: www.haemophilia.org.uk
- Phone: 0800-0186068
Headway
- National Head Injuries Assoc.
- Website: www.headway.org.uk
- Phone: 0115-9240800
HEAS
- Home Education Advisory Service
- Website: www.heas.org.uk
- Phone: 01707-371854
Huntington's Disease Association
- Website: www.hda.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-2237000
Hyperactive Children's Support Group
- Website: www.hacsg.org.uk
- Phone: 01903-725182
I Can
- For Children with speech impairment
- Website: www.ican.org.uk
- Phone: 0870-0104066
In Touch
- Puts parents of children with Rare disorders in touch with relevant organisations
- Phone: 0161-9052440
Kidsactive
- Website: www.kidsactive.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-7364443
Leukaemia Care Society
- Website: www.leukaemia.org.uk
- Phone: 01905-330003
LOOK
- National Federation of Families With Visually Impaired Children
- Website: www.lookuk.cjb.net
- Phone: 0121-4285038
M S Society
- Website: www.mssociety.org.uk
- Phone: 0208-4380700
ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis)
- Website: www.meassociation.org.uk
- Phone: 01375-642466
Mencap
- Website: www.mencap.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-4540454
Mind
- Website: www.mind.org.uk
- Phone: 0208-5192122
Motor Neurone Disease Society
- Website: www.mndassociation.org
- Phone: 08457-626262
Muscular Dystrophy Group
- Website: www.muscular-dystrophy.org
- Phone: 0207-7208055
NACC
- National Assoc.for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
- Website: www.nacc.org.uk
- Phone: 01727-844296
National Asthma Campaign
- Website: www.asthma.org.uk
- Phone: 0845-7010203
National Autistic Society
- Website: www.nas.org.uk
- Phone: 0870-6008585
National Blind Children's Society
- Website: www.nbcs.org.uk
- Phone: 01278-764764
National Children's Bureau
- Website: www.ncb.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-8436000
National Deaf Children's Society
- Website: www.ndcs.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-2500123
National Eczema Society
- Website: www.eczema.org
- Phone: 0870-2413604
National Federation of the Blind for the UK
- Website: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~nfbuk
- Phone: 01924-291313
National Library for the Handicapped Child
- Website: www.reach-reading.demon.co.uk
- Phone: 0845-6040414
National Rathbone Society
- Website: www.rathbonetraining.co.uk
- Phone: 0161-2365358
National Society for Epilepsy
- Website: www.epiliepsynse.org.uk
- Phone: 01494-601400
NATLL
- National Assoc. of Leisure Toy Libraries
- Website: www.charitynet.org
- Phone: 0207-3879592
Network 81
- Advice and information for Parents of children with special needs
- Website: www.network81.co.uk
- Phone: 01279-647415
Neurofibromastosis Association
- Website: www.nfa-uk.org.uk
- Phone: 0208-5471636
NHS Direct
- Website: www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
- Phone: 0845-4647
ParentLine
- Phone: 0808-8002222
Parents for Inclusion
- Website: www.parentsforinclusion.org
- Phone: 0207-5825008
PHAB Ltd
- Physically Disabled and Able Bodied
- Website: www.phabengland.org.uk
- Phone: 0208-6679443
Pre-school Learning Alliance
- Website: www.pre-school.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-8330991
Rescue
- The Foundation for the Brain Injured Infant
- Website: www.babybrains.org
- Phone: 01239-652104
Rett Syndrome Association UK
- Website: www.rettsyndrome.org.uk
- Phone: 0208-3615161
RNIB
- Royal National Institute for the Blind
- Website: www.rnib.org.uk
- Phone: 08457-669999
RNID
- Royal National Institute for the Deaf
- Website: www.rnid.org.uk
- Phone: 0808-8080123
Sargent Cancer Care for Children
- Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/child-health/sargent
- Phone: 0207-7522800
Scope
- Cerebral Palsy
- Website: www.scope.org.uk
- Phone: 0808-8003333
Sense
- For children with sensory impairment
- Website: www.sense.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-2727774
Sickle Cell Society
- Website: www.sicklecellsociety.org
- Phone: 0208-9617795
Skill
- Formerly National Bureau for the Handicapped Children
- Website: www.skill.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-4500620
The Children's Society
- Website: www.the-childrens-society.org.uk
- Phone: 0207-8414400
Young Minds
- National charity for children’s mental health
- Website: www.youngminds.org.uk
- Phone: 0800-0182138
Resources
Sensory Oojamabobs
- Customised sensory items from chew tops to weighted blankets
- Website: http://www.sensoryoojamabobs.co.uk/
