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Renfrewshire Community Plan 2008 - 2017 Visual Impairment Team
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The facilities there include a training kitchen, a showroom, an information room, and a larger technology suite, where computer skills can be developed.
The Visual Impairment Team offer:
- advice about blind and partially sighted registration
- practical and emotional support
- information on the range of services provided by Social Work and other UK organisations for blind and partially sighted people
- advice and information on disability and other benefits
- information on specialist services, for example, audio books and other tape services
- specialist equipment and aids to daily living
- individual assessment, at home or in the unit, to design rehabilitation or training programmes which meet the needs of the visually impaired person, to allow them to remain independent and mobile
- technAbility - specialist computer training
For more information on the services listed above, please refer to the menu of related content on the right.
Contact us
You can contact us by email: vi.services.sw@renfrewshire.gov.uk
or telephone during duty hours: 0141 847 4977
Alternatively you can fax us on: 0141 847 4966
or visit us during duty hours, or write to us at:
Visual Impairment Team
Mile End Centre
30 Seedhill Road
Paisley PA1 1SA
If you intend to telephone or visit us, please note that we are a fairly small team and do a great deal of our work during home visits. It is not possible for us to have a worker available throughout the working day to deal with enquiries and requests for service. This is why we operate a duty system. This means that there will be a member of staff available at fixed times each day to deal with requests for help or advice.
The duty system is there to make sure that everyone gets access to our service. It is important that you try to use it. The duty times are listed below.
If you are a resident in Renfrewshire who is registered blind or partially sighted, a specific worker would have been allocated to you when you first became registered. The worker would have offered a full initial assessment and arranged any appropriate services. If, at a later date, you have a further need for services, you should make contact through the duty system rather than ask for the member of staff you saw before.
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