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SeeAbility

SeeAbility House
Hook Road
Epsom
Surrey
KT19 8SQ

Tel: 01372 755000
Web: www.seeability.org

SeeAbility is a registered charity, working with adults who are visually impaired and have additional disabilities (learning disability, physical disability, degenerative conditions, mental health difficulties) supporting them to explore their potential, develop their skills/independence and/or enhance the quality of their lives. Services offered include:

  • Assessment
  • Visual impairment rehabilitation
  • Research
  • Supported living
  • Residential and nursing care services
  • Day services
  • Consultancy and training for carers and professionals
  • Information and advice

Currently operating accommodation and support services from Surrey (Leatherhead, Guildford, Horley), East Sussex (Seaford), Hampshire (Tadley, Fleet, Eastleigh), Somerset (Wellington) and Devon (Honiton, Exeter), SeeAbility aims to develop service provision in localities across the country.

Information and advice services are being established through community development projects nationwide and focus on raising awareness of visual impairment among people with learning disabilities. A Nationwide information and advice service was launched in June 2007 (web: www.lookupinfo.org).

Checked: 17 Feb 2009

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