A wide range of games and puzzles are available on the market which have been designed or adapted to be more accessible including playing cards and accessories, puzzles, and board games. A men’s shed is a metaphor for a larger version of a typical man’s shed in the garden and takes the form of full time projects in substantial premises to groups meeting in village halls and community centres for a few hours a week. An induction loop system uses a loop/cable that goes around the listening area, e.g. your living room. Or you can now get your books through an Alexa enabled device such as your smart speaker, tablet or phone. The Special Effect Gamers Charity supports people with a whole host of disabilities including (but not restricted to) accident victims, service personnel with combat injuries, people with congenital and progressive conditions and stroke patients. They work to introduce all forms of technology-based leisure, including popular computer games like FIFA, Football Manager, Call of Duty, MineCraft and Team Fortress. They also help with pastime games such as computer chess or Sudoku, and even switch ball throwers for interacting with family pets. Special Effect may be able to loan out equipment following an assessment so the individual has an opportunity to trial the equipment before purchasing it. The service is free of charge. www.specialeffect.org.uk

rest. These allow the individual to choose an appropriate and comfortable reading height and angle for maximum comfort. They can be used when the individual is sitting in a chair, or in bed.

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If you have reduced hand grip or a hand tremor and are finding it difficult to grip paintbrushes or other art tools, you may wish to view a range of brushes with large or differently shaped handles or materials to modify standard brushes. You may also wish to view large handle and adapted pens, pencils and grips.

If you find it difficult to see the settings around the control knobs of kitchen appliances you can use tactile or visual markings. These are available in a range of colours so you can choose a colour that contrasts with the appliance. If you have difficulty seeing the measurements on a tape measure you may like to consider tactile, rulers and tape measures which have tactile bumps at regular intervals. Talking tape measures are also available. If you have difficulty writing, there are a number of products that are designed to help. For example, if you only have the use of one hand, then you may need equipment to anchor a piece of paper onto a writing surface. If you have limited gripping ability, or have other difficulties in holding a standard pen, then you may need a differently designed writing implement, or some form of holder for a standard pen or pencil.

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a food collector consists of angled raised rims to guide the contents of the food when you transfer the contents of the board to a pan/bowl/container Terms and conditions for RNIB Summer 2023 Raffle Speed Draw to win a Regency Hampers luxury picnic hamper alternative controls for use with games consoles, including controllers for one-handed use or foot operation. Entertainment equipment for recording and viewing subtitles– these include media centres with non-standard subtitle access features. A range of playing cards and accessories are available designed to assist with the playing of cards.Larger than standard playing cards, tactile playing cards or cards with large print may facilitate identification and manipulation of the cards.

Information about tricycles, recumbents, ‘steer from rear’ tandems, side by side cycles and electric assisted bicycles can be found in The Guide to Disability Cycling by Get Cycling.Also known as stand-alone reading machines, theseunits combine a scanner, optical character recognition (OCR) software and speech output. Thrive recommend that the ideal height of a built raised bed will vary from 60cm to 100cm depending on whether you are standing, sitting or using a wheelchair and that the width of the bed will also vary from 50cm to 100cm, depending on if you can reach across all areas of the bed or just from one side (Thrive, 2008).

All our Talking Books are unabridged and high quality, giving you the best possible reading and listening experience. The RNIB National Library Service provides a wide range of library and information services for people with sight problems. Resources include talking books, Braille and giant print books, maps, music and online reference services. adapted sewing patterns e.g. in an appropriate media such as braille or on heavier, easier to use paper that won’t tear easily. The RNIBsell a range of Braille knitting patterns In the early years, Talking Book players were huge, mechanical things, loaded with up to eight gramophone records per novel. That seems archaic next to today’s compact DAISY players, but even those early inventions were years ahead of their time and a lifeline for people who had experienced sight loss. Thankfully, cassettes soon shrunk down, and by 1966 the Mark IV cassette player was launched which would transform our service forever. During this time our membership grew from under 10,000 members to well over 40,000, offering many blind people’s first experience of Talking Books. 1996: TB2000In the UK, the movement was pioneered by Age UK and there are now over 300 sheds open in the UK with more sheds planned. The idea of men in sheds has appealed to men both living alone or with partners and at all ages, although the majority of ‘shedders’ are over retirement age. There is a small range of equipment that can be used to help with sewing or knitting including needle threaders and tactile tape measures. Small (just a little larger than a standard coffee mug) and highly portable, you can listen to Talking Books on USB and any other audio via Bluetooth – podcasts, BBC Sounds, Audible audiobooks, your ‘dance like nobody’s watching’ playlist. If your smartphone or tablet can play it, you can listen to it on the RNIB Accord.