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Domestic Aids

Numerous Aids are available to assist general living

Those underlined are normally available from your LA Social Services and subject use instruction where appropriate. Others can be supplied by the organisations listed at the end. Please look below new items at Regular Aids.

New items:

Post Offices now have a 'Helping Hands Pack' with small items to aid the V.I. and the infirm - Just ask at any Post Office.

Various personal and domestic security, safety and assistance items are sold by www.innotec2000.com details: 01244 520 805.

Tactile calendars now being sold by the Fieldsman Trust: 01352 756202

Regular Aids:

Templates for addressing letters, benefit books, cheque books, etc.

Liquid level detectors

Long and symbol white canes

Bus, Help and Taxi request signs

Coin holders

Speaking watches, timers, clocks and calendars.

Food preparation devices, speaking scales and microwave ovens.

Medicine dispensers, speaking thermometers and bathroom scales.

Needle threaders, knitting needle gauge and counters.

Speaking calculators fluorescent desk lights, embossing labellers.

Audio measures and spirit levels

Gardening equipment.

Braille tools, note takers, embosser and gadgets.

Stick on bumper pads.

'Slade coloured buttons' (textured buttons which you can sew onto clothes to remind you of the colour of the garment - helps with matching shades))

Moon tools.

Games and puzzles.

Audio described videos.

Most of the above can be supplied by RNIB

Another good fast supplier of a limited but original line is

Cobalt Systems Ltd., 01493 700172 Fax 01493 701037

Lost spades in the garden? Get yourself an 'audio locator' or the much cheaper option of a 'wireless door chime' from DIYs for about £10. Just make sure your portable chime is near the garden tools you are using, when you are distracted and want to find them later - press your portable door push so that the chime rings and you will hear where they are!