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Reading
This section includes a range of equipment that may help when reading including stands, book rests and tables for positioning reading materials, page turners, magnifiers and text to speech equipment.
This magnifier section includes a range of magnifiers both manual glass/plastic lense magnifiers and video magnifiers
The text to speech section includes scanning machines which read out an inserted book or sheet of text and DAISY players which play DAISY audible books and replace the old audio books on cassette format.
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If you would like further advice regarding daily living equipment related to reading and writing you could try relevant sections of AskSARA. AskSARA is our free online guided advice tool. AskSARA will ask you questions about yourself and your environment and then offer relevant advice, product suggestions and supplier details.
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Vision
- Braille and Moon
- Clocks and watches for blind or partially sighted users
- Computer equipment for blind or partially sighted users
- Household equipment for blind or partially sighted users
- Identifying items
- Magnifiers
- Personal care aids for users with low vision
- Telephones and equipment for blind or partially sighted users
- Text to speech
- Writing equipment for blind or partially sighted users
