Welcome to our Site of the Week page.
Every week a new website or web-page will be featured here.
This week's link is to the website Learning Disability History
This is the website of the Social History of Learning Disability research group at the Open Univeristy.
The site contains some life-stories and video testimonials of survivors from long-stay hospitals, as well as information on their projects and annual conference.
Please note:
Any
views and opinions expressed are SOLELY those of the authors of the site
featured, and are not endorsed or necessarily shared by Access2info or
HAFAD.
If you have a site to recommend, please email us:
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Previous sites of the week:
STAGETEXT
STAGETEXT is dedicated to delivering captioned performances and promoting the use of captioning in cultural venues throughout the UK.
You sign up for their newsletter that contains information of captioned performances.
Attitude is Everything, an organisation that works to improve deaf and disabled people's access to live music. They regularily update their site with news of volunteering opportunities.
The Den, a fantastic new website produced by the Autism Education Trust. Aimed at young people who have autism, it features videos on many, many subjects including home, law, money, health, work and travel. Check it out!
Shaping Our Lives Network
This website is for finding out about what service-user controlled organisations are doing and also what non-service user organisations are doing for service users.
Disabled Parents Network
This website provides information, advice and peer support to disabled parents, their families and supporters. One great feature is an online forum.
The Disabled Parents Network campaigns on a local and national level to improve services for disabled parents.They also provide training and workshop facilitation to social and health professionals.
Hammersmith and Fulham Neighbourhood Watch
The website gives details of existing schemes, key contacts, and links to crime prevention advice
Hammersmith and Fulham Council's events search on their website.
This is a page where you can find out about classes, drop in clubs, library events, and H&F News event listings
BBC iPlayer's signed and audio described content.
BBC iPlayer is an online service that lets you catch up with BBC radio and television programmes from the past week. Some programmes are stored for longer periods.
It's a great way to catch up on things you may have missed - with the added bonus of being able to pause at any time to make a cup of tea...
The same programmes can also be found on the following updated web feeds, that list programmes in the order that they are put online. These feeds may be easier to navigate, although there is no search or sorting function:
Signed Programmes
Audio Described Programmes
Your Rights At Work
This is a fantastic website from the Disability Rights Commission that provides really accessible information about rights at work via videos, pictures, large print text and BSL videos.
www.easyhealth.org.uk
This is a fantastic website that provides health information in a way that is easy to understand. Most of the information can be downloaded and printed off for free.
www.ricability.org.uk
Ricability is an independant consumer research charity that provides free consumer reports on a range of topics based on user tests carried out by disabled people.
Sample subjects include finding a car, a guide to wheeled walking frames, how to choose domestic appliances and the ins and outs of bathing.
www.rnid.org.uk
This is the website of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, an organisation engaged in campaigning and lobbying, raising awareness of deafness and hearing loss, providing services and carrying out social, medical and technical research.
www.theyworkforyou.com
This is a website that provides transcripts and videos of debates from the House of Commons and the Lords.
You can search for particular topics, such as 'disability', and find transcripts of debates such as the recent Westminster Hall debate on disability policy
You can also search for individual MPs and view their voting records, expenses and recent statements. Very interesting!
United Kingdom Disabled People's Council site
UKDPC was set up in 1981, by disabled people, to promote our full equality and participation in UK society, to strengthen the voice of disabled people in the UK and to ensure justice and rights for all disabled people regardless of impairment."
Deafinitely Theatre
Website of an independant, deaf-led theatre comapny in Kentish Town, which features information about events and workshops.
The Octavia Foundation's page for their Disability Arts Festival that took place in December.
On this page you will find a brilliant 'Top Ten Guide to Accessible Venues in West London', in pdf and text only versions.
Yourable.com
This site is packed full of information on products and services, as well as having an online forum and a great Work section.
Individual Budgets Directory
A new website part funded by Hammersmtih and Fulham Council, providing a growing directory of local services that can be bought with an individual budget.
RADAR website
RADAR is the UK's largest disability campaigning network, with over 900 individual and organisational members. Their vision is a just and equal society whose strength is human difference. Their mission is to enable individuals, networks and policy-makers to do things differently.
Shapearts
Shape is a disability-led arts organisation working to improve access to culture for disabled people. They develop opportunities for disabled artists, train cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and run participatory arts and development programmes.
Shape Tickets is a scheme offering support to access the arts, through discounted tickets, accessible productions and voluntary Access Assistants.
To find out more, click here Or phone: 020 7424 7333
BBC Disability Sport
Don't Play Me Pay Me campaign
Direct Gov Blue Badge Map
Action for Access
BBC Ouch
Disability Now
