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RNID Scotland
Empire House
131 West Nile Street
Glasgow
G1 2RX
Tel (Helpline): 0808 808 0123 (voice)
Tel (Helpline): 0808 808 9000 (text)
Tel (Office): 0141 341 5330 (voice)
Tel (Office): 0141 341 5347 (text)
Fax: 0141 354 0176
Web: www.rnid.org.uk
Best time to telephone: 9am - 5pm, Monday - Thursday; 9am - 4pm, Friday.
The RNID represents the nine million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. As a membership charity, the RNID aims to achieve a radically better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people. This is done in the following ways.
- Campaigning and lobbying to change laws and government policies.
- Challenging negative perceptions around deafness and hearing loss.
- Providing information and raising awareness of deafness, hearing loss, and tinnitus.
- Training courses and consultancy on deafness and disability.
- Communication services, including sign language interpreters.
- Training of interpreters, lipspeakers, and speech-to-text operators.
- Seeking lasting change in education for deaf children and young people.
- Employment programmes to help deaf people into work.
- Typetalk, the national telephone relay service for deaf and hard of hearing people.
- Care Services for deaf and hard of hearing people with additional needs.
- Equipment and products for deaf and hard of hearing people.
- Social, medical and technical research.
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