Devon County Council

Our Devon Sensory Team can advise on appropriate equipment as regards hearing impairment & visual impairment.

There are also Centres that can be visited:

   

Hearing impairment:

• Sound Base
• See Hear Centre
• Sensory Bus

   

Visual impairment:

• Exeter
• Honiton
• Plymouth
• North Devon
• West Devon & Torridge (Sensory Bus)

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Exeter:

• Devon County Association for the Blind (DCAB)
  Holman Way
  Topsham
  Exeter
  EX3 0EN
  
  Tel. 01392 876666
  e-mail: devon-blind@btconnect.com
  web: www.devonblind.org.uk (opens in a new window)

Open Tuesday to Friday 10 am - 1 pm and by appointment at other times.

Has a resource centre with aids and equipment useful to people with a visual impairment including a demonstration kitchen.

Holds occasional courses on microwave cooking.

Honiton:

• The Senphy Centre
  Queen Street
  Honiton
  EX14 8HH
  
  Tel. 01404 41062

Open every weekday.

A Devon Social Services drop-in information centre for people with sensory and / or physical disabilities.

North Devon

• See Hear Centre
  19a Alexandra Road
  Barnstaple
  EX32 8BA
  
  Tel/Fax. 01271 376677
  email: seehearnd@livingoptions.org
  web: http://www.livingoptions.org/division.php?division=see_hear_centre

Plymouth:

• The Hearing & Sight Centre (HAS)
  
  Tel. 01752 788999
  textphone: 01752 768573
  e-mail: maggie@plymouthhas.demon.co.uk
  web site: www.plymouthguild.org.uk/hearing-sight/

Also on devon.gov.uk

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