Support for adults who are d/Deaf or deafblind at home

If you need support at home, we can offer enablement services. Our services are available if you have a social worker or a registered practitioner in the Sensory Team and need support to be independent.

We help you to learn the skills you need to be able to do things for yourself and find activities to support your health and wellbeing. This may also include visiting you at home to try a range of equipment to support your hearing loss.

Support includes:

• getting benefit and debt advice
• help with budgeting
• tenancy support
• learning to travel independently
• staying safe and well at home, there is more information on our help to live at home page
• assessing you for specialist equipment to help you in your daily life
• teaching and assisting you with communication, like how to make calls with assistive technology, for example, video interpreted calls
• advice on what community support services are available for you, including social and peer support groups
• giving you information around employment, education, training and volunteering.

There are many examples of equipment that can help you stay independent.

• TV amplifiers which may help you to listen at a volume you can control by using headphones without loud volumes upsetting relatives or neighbours.
• We may be able to give you a doorbell, or an app on your phone or alternative devices which flash to alert you that there is someone at the door.
• We can talk to you about different options that may be available to hear when you’re on the phone and when it rings.
• If you are a parent, alerts can also be given to let you know your baby is crying or distressed.
• We can also make a referral for you to get smoke alarms which vibrate which may help you safely escape from fire, especially at night.