Technology

Produce a wide range of videos, including children's stories, educational and reference material, covering many subjects, in sign language and subtitles. Available from the Forest Bookshop.

Royal School for the Deaf
Ashbourne Road
Derby
DE22 3BH
Tel: 01332 362 512
Text: 01332 362 512
Fax: 01332 367 911
Email: deafbooks@forestbooks.com
Web: www.forestbooks.com

DBC ensures that deaf people have access to TV and video and that the access, whether by subtitling or sign language, is of suitable quality. DBC has close links with broadcasters, regulators and takes every opportunity to meet deaf people at exhibitions and other public meetings.

70 Blacketts Wood Drive
Chorleywood
Rickmansworth
Herts
WD3 5QQ
Text: 01923 284 538
Fax: 01923 283 127
Email: pennybes@aol.com
Web: www.deafbroadcastingcouncil.org.uk

FunderFinder produces computer software that helps individuals and not-for-profit organisations to identify charitable trusts that might support them. A free software program called Apply Yourselves helps people write an effective fundraising application: this can be downloaded from our website.

65 Ragalan Road
Leeds
LS2 9DZ
Web: www.funderfinder.org.uk

Gordon Morris Ltd Is a hearing specialist with over 20 years in the business, combining professionalism and technical expertise with the founder’s own enthusiasm and insight.

The business supplies, installs, maintains and advises on a range of equipment and environmental aids to hearing impairment.

Gordon Morris Ltd
Unit 21
Wessex Park
Somerton Business Park
Somerton
Somerset
TA11 6SB

Tel/Minicom: 01458 272121
Fax: 01458 274545
Email: info@gordonmorris.co.uk
Web: www.gordonmorris.co.uk

Providers of videotapes with added subtitles that can be watched on a standard VHS recorder. No additional decoding equipment needed. Available through the local library network or through the Postscript Postal Video Hire Club.

3rd Floor
Victoria Mill
Andrew Street
Stockport
Cheshire
SK6 5HN
Tel: 0161 4499650
Email: members@nsldp.freeserve.co.uk

Providing FREE Computer Access, ICT and accredited courses for deaf and hearing impaired people.

ICT Centre, 1-3 Atwell Road,Peckham, London, SE15 4TW
Tel: 020 7740 9200
Text: 020 7740 9209
Fax: 020 7740 9200
Email: deaf.ict@pecan.org.uk
Web: www.pecan.org.uk

Provision of captioning services for arts, entertainment, educational and cultural venues. Promotes the use of captioning to increase accessibility for all people with a hearing loss.

12 Floor
York House
Empire Way
Wembley
HA9 0PA
Tel: 020 8903 5566
Text: 020 8903 5566
Fax: 020 8903 8647
Email: enquiries@stagetext.co.uk
Web: www.stagetext.co.uk

This is the national telephone relay service which enables deaf, deafblind, deafened, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people to communicate with hearing people anywhere in the world.

RNID Typetalk
PO Box 284
Liverpool
L69 3UZ
Tel: 0800 7311 888 (helpline)
Text: 18001 0800 500 888 (helpline)
Fax: 0151 709 8119
Email: helpline@rnid-typetalk.org.uk
Web: www.typetalk.org