Links

Consultancy Services

• Equality Training and Consultancy tailored training courses in visual impairment awareness, disability awareness,dementia, management skills and personal and social development. Access audits and design; accessible training materials.
• Assist-IT Training and consultancy in assistive technology. Assist I.T. works in partnership with learning, teaching, training providers and public access centres to provide the best practice in inclusive learning through the use of assistive and adaptive technology.
• Hoolet Ltd is a young, Scottish company that specialises in software and consultancy relating to a range of social inclusion issues.
• AbilityNet helps disabled people with advice, factsheets, assessments, training and assistive technology.

Focus on Work

• Careers Scotland "for all your career planning needs"
• Employment Opportunities is a national charity helping disabled people to find and retain work. It acts as a Job Broker for New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP)
• Equal Access to Employment (EAS) in Glasgow. A partnership providing a strategic approach to assisting people furthest from the labour market to gain employment.
• Flourish House has an Education and Employment Unit that offers Transistional Employment Placements to members.
• Glasgow Works "Our vision is to seek a step change for a vibrant Glasgow where "Everyone who is able to work can, given the right type of job and the appropriate supports". Glasgow is changing in many ways, but one crucial way is how we deliver services to support people on their journey (back) into employment. Glasgow Works will be a key factor in the city realising the dream of full employment for its citizens."
• Grampian Opportunities provides a spport and signposting service for people with disabilities or mental health issues who may need help finding opportunities in employment, volunteering or further education.
• Momentum Scotland works in partnership across Scotland to enable and empower
• SUSE (Scottish Union for Supported Employment) is the national network for organisations working to promote equality of employment opportunity for disabled and disadvantaged people.

Information Services

• DIAL UK is a national organisation for a network of 140 local disability information and advice services run by and for disabled people. This site give access to 12 member organisations across Scotland.
• DIGG (Disability Information Greater Glasgow) aims to provide people who have a disability with the information they need to have control over their lives and to live life to the full. It has set up an information and support network for patients, mainly those with neurological and sensory conditions, within the Greater Glasgow area.
• GCIL the Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living works to promote independent living for disabled people living in Glasgow.
• RADAR is "the UK's campaigning and advisory disability body run by and for disabled people.
• SAIF (Scottish Accessible Information Forum) works to improve accessible information for disabled people by producing and promoting standards and guidelines
• SNIP offers advice and information on services available to children with special need and their carers in East Central Scotland.
• UPDATE is Scotland's National Disability Information Service collating and disseminating disability and impairment related information to first tier information providers throughout Scotland. The website has several public pages and a subscription-based members' area.

Learning and Education Services

• Lead Scotland "is a voluntary organisation set up to support disabled young people and adults and carers to access post-school education."
• Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities is "a national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of impairment in post-16 education, training and employment"
• How to Learn English This comprehensive website on learning English includes a section on dyslexia in children.

Website Design and Accessibility

• Jim Byrne Next Step Web Design Use this site to access advice and guidance on how to develop an accessible website.
• Textic has "created Talklets, the simplest and most effective way to make a website talk by applying advanced text-to-speech technology to any web text to read it in a clear, life-like voice. This helps increase accessibility and usefulness, as well as encouraging extra site traffic and longer site visits."