Agencies Serving Blind & Partially Sighted People
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20.11.2009
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Denmark
Blindes Arbejde
(Workshop for the Blind)
Tomsgårdsvej 17-19, 3. sal, Copenhagen NV, 2400, Denmark.
Tel: +45 38 34 33 88
Fax: +45 38 19 42 33
Email: ba@blindes-arbejde.dk
Web: www.blindes-arbejde.dk
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Blindecenter Bredegaard
(Institution for the Blind)
Lindelyvej 5, 3480 Fredensborg, Denmark.
Tel: +45 48 48 00 79
Fax: +45 48 48 44 11
Email: bredegaard@hav2.regionh.dk
Web: www.blindehjemmetbredegaard.dk
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Dovblindecentret
(Danish Center for Congenitally Deafblind People)
Sohngaardsholmsvej 59, PO Box 142, 9000, Aalborg, Denmark.
Contact person: Brian Dunnigan
Tel: +45 99 31 89 00
Fax: +45 98 14 73 44
Email: dbc@rn.dk
Web: www.idb.dk
Activities: The Centre’s nation-wide service includes a residential centre for children, kindergarten, youth centre, residences for adults, schooling, activities centre, counselling, specialised advice and courses.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Danmarks Blindebibliotek
(The Danish National Library for the Blind)
Teglvaerksgade 37, DK 2100, København Ø, Denmark.
Tel: +45 1 39 13 46 00
Fax: +45 1 39 13 46 01
Email: dbb@dbb.dk
Web: www.dbb.dk
Activities: DBB is a state-run institution under the auspices of
the Danish Ministry of Culture. It serves as the national central library
for the blind, the partially sighted and other people with abilities that
restrict them from reading normal printed text. DBB's vision is to provide
full information equality for its users and provide the disabled with
the same access to information as other citizens. DBB commissions and
produces materials in audio, in Braille and as computer files. This part
of DBB's activities is based of the Copyright Act. DBB's stock of material
is made available to those who fulfil the conditions for registration
as DBB users. The Danish National Library for the Blind is also a resource
centre, providing advice to the rest of the library service in questions
concerning the disabled.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Dansk Blindesamfund
(Danish Association of the Blind)
Thoravej 35, Copenhagen NV, 2400, Denmark.
Tel: +45 38 14 88 44
Fax: +45 38 14 88 00
Email: info@dkblind.dk
Web: www.dkblind.dk
Activities: The Danish Association of the Blind (DAB) is an all-blind
organization. It is formed and run by people who suffer from blindness
or severe visual impairment. It is instrumental in communicating to politicians
and authorities matters concerning questions that affect our situation.
It undertakes two main functions: the organization makes its voice heard
in all matters that affect the situation of the blind and visually impaired
by exercising influence towards the political decision makers; furthermore
we provide a vast number of services for our many members.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Foreningen af Danske DøvBlinde - syns- og hørehæmmede
(Danish Association of the Deafblind)
Kløverprisvej 10B, 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark.
Tel: +45 36 75 20 96
Fax: +45 36 38 85 85
Email: fddb@fddb.dk
Web: www.fddb.dk
Activities: The Danish Association of the Deafblind works for the
improvement of life conditions and individual dignity for deafblind in
Denmark. One of the primary goals of the organisation is to help break
the isolation that is particularly common among deafblind people.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Instituttet for Blinde og Svagsynede (IBS)
(Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted in Denmark)
Rymarksvej 1, DK - 2900 Hellerup, Denmark.
Tel: +45 39 45 25 45
Fax: +45 39 45 25 25
Email: ibos@ibos.dk
Web: www.ibos.dk
Activities: The Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted in
Denmark is a national institution. The purpose of the institute is, through
counselling and education, to facilitate the greatest possible compensation
for the effects of visual impairment. The issues around the individuals
are always dealt with in close co-operation with the local authorities
(country and council). The Institute has about 200 staff members, divided
into 30 groups of professionals. The Institute organises its daily routines
and activities across several departments: advice and counselling; career
resource centre; education of instructors (mobility and ADL officers);
educational department; emergency service; museum of the history of the
blind; products sales division; residential department; short courses;
vocational training and business school.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Kristeligt Arbejde blandt Blinde (KAbB)
(Christian Library for the Blind)
Jernbanegade 19a, Fredericia, 7000, Denmark.
Tel: +45 75 91 02 55
Email: post@kabb.dk
Web: www.kabb.dk
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Nordic Staff Training Centre for Deafblind Services
Slotsgade 8, DK-9330 Dronninglund, Denmark.
Tel: +45 96 47 16 00
Fax: +45 96 47 16 16
Email: nud@nud.dk
Web: www.nud.dk
Activities: Training courses and conferences for staff working
with deafblind. Library services, information services and production
of materials for use in staff development.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Synscenter Refsnæs
Kystvejen 112 A, DK-4400 Kalundborg, Denmark.
Contact person: Dan Spanggaard, Principal
Tel. +45 59 57 01 00
Fax +45 59 57 01 01
Email: danspa@vestamt.dk
Web: www.synref.dk
Activities: Offers a boarding house, schooling and educational courses.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Videnscenter for Døvblindfødte
(Danish Resource Centre for Congenital Deafblindness)
Sohngaardsholmsvej 61, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark.
Contact person: Inger Rodbroe, Centre Leader
Tel: +45 98 15 53 13
Fax: +45 98 15 53 23
Email: vcdbf.vcdbf@nja.dk
Web: www.videnscenterdbf.dk
Activities: The Danish Resource Centre on congenital deafblindness
is a service for all that require information regarding congenitally deafblindness.
It is the tasks of the resource centre to secure the highest possible
level of knowledge about congenitally deafblind people; to ensure that
parents, local and regional authorities, institutions and educational
programs receive the best possible knowledge about congenitally deafblind
people; To establish and develop a network, where parents, professionals
and the resource centre co-operate actively together; to generate and
disseminate new knowledge, e.g. in areas of staff training and development;
to develop technology-supported means and forms of communication.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Videnscentret For Døvblindblevne
(Information Centre for Acquired Deafblindness)
Generatorvej 2A, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark.
Tel: +45 44 39 11 75
Fax: +45 44 39 11 79
Email: dbcent@dbcent.dk
Web: www.dbcent.dk
Activities: The general aim of the Information Center for Acquired
Deafblindness is to collect, adapt and develop the latest research findings
on acquired deafblindness. More specifically, the Center aims at utilizing
this knowledge base to help maintain the highest standards in local authority
schemes to assist people who have suffered a serious impairment to their
sight and hearing.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
Videncenter for Synshandicap (VIIC)
(Visual Impairment Knowledge Centre)
Rymarksvej 1, Hellerup, 2900, Denmark.
Contact person: Bendt Nygaards Jensen
Tel: +45 39 46 01 01
Fax: +45 39 61 94 14
Email: visinfo@visinfo.dk
Web: www.visinfo.dk
Activities: The Visual Impairment Knowledge centre is an independent
agency. The centre is funded by the Danish counties. The executive board
has representations from the counties and the Danish Association of the
Blind. The Centre collects, processes and provides information about visual
impairment in order to help maintain and develop a high quality of service
in the local and regional effors for people with visual impairments. The
centre offers qualified information to, among others, public offices,
places of education, workplaces, rehabilitation workers, health workers
and individuals with visual impairments. The agency gathers information
about projects, research and methodological development in Denmark and
abroad, operates a lending library, maintains updated electronic databases
on literature, conferences and events and relevant addresses, provides
information or references to appropriate literature, agencies or persons,
publishes books, videos and a quarterly newsletter (most materials in
Danish only) and hosts or co-hosts lectures and courses. The agency's
services are available to professionals as well as private individuals.
We do not provide specific advice in individual cases, but instead suggest
appropriate agencies to contact.
Last updated: 17/04/2007
World Federation of the Deafblind
Snehvidevej 13, DK-9400 Noerresundby, Denmark.
Contact person: Lex Grandia, President
Tel: +45 98 19 20 99
Fax: +45 98 19 20 57
Email: lex.grandia@mail.dk
Web: www.wfdb.org
Activities: The aim of WFDB is to improve the quality of life of deafblind people world wide and one of the most important activities undertaken by WFDB is to identify deafblind people in order to break their isolation. WFDB also aims at spreading information about deafblindness and about the kind of service deafblind people need in order to live independent lives. In addition, WFDB strives to have deafblindness acknowledged internationally as a unique disability.
Last updated: 15/11/2006
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