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BME Services
Rehabilitation services for visually impaired children.
Services for deaf blind people
Transcription services
Visual Awareness/Equality Training
Bradbury Fields recognises the need for people from Black and Asian communities to access a specialist service. Bradbury Fields began this service in 1997, to encourage people from minority communities to take up the specialist services that Bradbury Fields can provide. Following a 3 year research programme it became evident that a specialist worker would need to be recruited who could understand the religious and cultural diversities that exist in Liverpool to try and address these needs.
Bradbury Fields is able to provide a specialist worker Jamal Abdullah to those who require this specialist service. Referrals should be made through Bradbury Fields' normal referral procedure, or for an informal discussion you can contact Jamal Abdullah on 0151 221 0888 ext.213
Rehabilitation services for visually impaired children.
Bradbury Fields works in partnership with Liverpool and Knowsley Education and Social Services Department to provide a specialist rehab worker, working with visually impaired children and their families. We offer the full range of rehabilitation services including mobility; daily living skills and we support education with the communication skills.
Bradbury Fields also offers support to families of children with a visual impairment and we have a full range of demonstration equipment and also a sensory room to help children develop the best use of residual vision. Bradbury Fields also works in partnership with other agencies to provide social outlets for blind and partially sighted children, for more information about children’s services please contact Helen Cliff on 0151 221 0888 ext. 222
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Services for deaf blind people
Bradbury Fields provides a specialist service for people who have dual sensory disability. This service consists of specialist assessment, the provision of specialist equipment, where necessary and signposting onto other agencies for community support and communicator guide schemes.
We also provide the only social club for deaf blind people on Merseyside which meets every Monday at the Bradbury centre, this club offers the opportunity for social interaction, the gathering of specialist information and the provision of specialist equipment where necessary. Just a chance to communicate with others is often the main reason why people come along to our specialist club. Club members also go out to places of interest with specialist support from our volunteers.
For information about services for deaf blind people contact Carol Byrne on 0151 221 0888 ext. 212. Or for club activities contact Louise Cannon on 0151 221 0888 ext. 220
Bradbury Fields has become a major player in the field of providing information in other formats, including transcription from print to Braille, audio (cassette and CD). We have a fully equipped studio and the ability to multi-copy information into various formats. Our customers include Liverpool City Council, Sefton Borough Council, Knowsley Borough Council, Merseytravel, Wirral Partnership Homes, Lee Valley Housing, Merseyside Police, Kensington Regeneration, Local PCT’S, Knowsley Housing Trust and a range of local businesses, small and large.
We pride ourselves in our ability to produce the best quality Braille and audio transcription service and where necessary we can turn the job around within 48 hours. We also offers guidance to those wishing to purchase our services to ensure that we keep our prices to a minimum by guiding service providers on the best way to produce information.
Our service is strictly private and confidential and we abide by all of the rules laid down by data protection.
Prices for a service will be determined by the ‘person time’ put into your project, if you can reduce the ‘person time’ we can reduce the price. Our aim is to ensure that blind and partially sighted people get the information that they deserve and are entitled to under the Disability Discrimination Act. For further information about transcription and costing, please contact Michelle Taylor on 0151 221 0888 ext. 203 or Amanda Brassey on 0151 221 0888 ext. 202
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Visual Awareness/Equality Training
Bradbury Fields offers tailor-made training courses to outside agencies to enable people to understand the specialist needs of blind and partially sighted people and to enable organisations to offer an equal service to those who are visually impaired. Our training courses can be tailored to your needs but basically fall into the following categories,
All of our courses are delivered by fully qualified trainers and every course will be supported by a visually impaired trainer. Bradbury Fields values and meets the needs of the Social Model of Disability.
