Hi, I'm in the process of applying for Direct Payments, but knowing how
bloody useless Haringey Borough Council is, I'll probably be drawing a
pension before anything gets sorted. Still miracles could occur.
Janet & Wheat, the silly Shepherd cross
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
Christine Weetman
Sent: 21 October 2010 17:56
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access Technology
If your in the UK, you apply to social services for direct payments,
this
will give you money to pay a Personal Assistant, of your own choice, who
will help you with day-to-day tasks like, shopping, hobbies just about
anything, mine helps me with my hobby which is crafting so I need help
sorting colours, also with my greenhouse planting and other tasks I wish
to
do which I need help for. SDS is Self Directed Support and in applying
for
this you must ask for an amount to help fund expensive equipment which
you
can not otherwise afford, I have just been fortunate enough to obtain a
DBC,
DeafBlind Communicator, for which I was given a one-off payment. I have
it
fully covered for six years and was given a full days training to ensure
I
am able to use the equipment. You can't ask for Normal things like,
washing
machine, cooker, sofa etc but if you can justify why you need Jaws as
apposed to an available free screenreader I'm sure this will be
acceptable.
From what I can understand the goverment will allow a budget of so many
hours per week and if you don't need all that time then you can request
the
funding to be used on specialist equipment.
I had to be pretty insistant and know all my rights, but got there in
the
end.
Sorry for the long email. Christine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:34 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access Technology
What is SDS Christine?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Weetman" <goatmum@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:17 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access Technology
Apply for SDS and ask for help with specialist equipment. This is the
Only way I know of doing it and it worked for me. Christine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Tuggey" <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:11 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Help with the cost of Access Technology
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone knows of where I can apply for help
with
the
cost of Access Technology as I'm unemployed at the moment and would
really
like to purchase such things as a scanner plus software, and a full
working
version of JAWS for starters (I have the demo version of JAWS 11 and
am
fed
up with having to reboot after 40 minutes, I also have NVDA which is
pretty
good, but still prefer JAWS).
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Janet & Wheat, the silly Shepherd cross
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