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Dorset County Council |
Dorset Social Care and Health work closely with us and support the work that we do. |
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Connexions |
We work with Connexions to run the Just Say project. |
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Dorset Advocacy |
Dorset Advocacy provides advocates for people with learning disabilities in Dorset. |
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Dorset Police |
We work with the police on our Citizenship Projects, and we also provide placements for new Community Support Officers. |
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Dorset Healthcare Trust |
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Poole Forum |
Speaking up organisation for people with learning disabilities in Poole. |
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Weymouth and Portland Partnership |
The aim of the Weymouth & Portland Partnership is to improve the quality of life of all who live and work in Weymouth and Portland”. |
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Bournemouth People First |
Speaking up organisation for people with learning disabilities in Bournemouth. |
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Seagulls Independent Speaking Up Group of Weymouth |
We are a self advocacy group of adults with learning difficulties who meet up once a month to talk about things that are important to us and we have social events too. We have just been voted runners up in the 2007 Easy Information compeition run by South West Total Communication Network! |
| Total Communication |
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South West Total Communication Network |
A support network for people interested in Communication in the South West. |
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Photosymbols |
An excellent resourse of photographs for making easy information. |
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Easy Info |
Information about a range of communication issues. |
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Change Picturebank |
Illustrations for making Easy Information. |
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Widgit Software |
Many different software programmes for using symbols. |
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Signalong |
Signing resources! |
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Word-Bank |
A website helping people understand difficult words and jargon.
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Makaton |
More signing resources. |
| More useful websites... |
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Valuing People Support Team |
Lots of information, news and events. |
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National Forum for People with Learning Difficulties |
The National Forum works with the Learning disability TaskForce. The forum was set up after it helped make the White Paper Valuing People. The job is to tell Government how Valuing People is working for people with learning difficulties. |
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BILD |
British Institute of Learning Disabilities. |
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Skillnet |
Just a really good website about some very interesting learning disability services in Kent. |
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French Experience Holidays |
A family fun business in France who run holidays for people with learning difficulties and their supporters. Their phone number is 0033 (0) 553 569688. |
