The Council's Community Sensory Services team can provide you with a wide range of advice, information and advocacy services and contacts.
Help includes:
- Information on national and local deaf and hard of hearing organisations
- Information on British Sign Language (BSL) and lip reading classes
- Basic advice on welfare rights and benefits and basic advice on housing.
- Information about where to find other services in Greenwich - for example, Greenwich Citizens Advice bureau and housing advisors, with advice on access to these services for deaf and hard of hearing people.
- Support with applications for travel permits and bus passes, disabled person's railcard and Text Users Rebate Scheme for textphone users.
- Advice on Typetalk - a national relay system for textphone users.
For more information, contact our Community Sensory Services team using the details on the right.