Support

• Academic Network of European Disability
• Business Disability Forum is an employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects business and aiming to make it easier to recruit and retain disabled employees and to serve disabled customers.
• Disability Rights UK  - information for students or those thinking about further study; also available is the Into HE Guide  - for disabled people formerly published by Skill.
• ODI  - (Office for Disability Issues)
• Ouch!  - BBC website and discussion forum
• Victim Support  - national body giving free and confidential help to victims of crime

Local Organisations

• CACH  - (Chase Against Crimes of Hate) - hate crime and incidents in the Stafford area
• Disability Solutions  - West Midlands - voluntary organisation based in Hartshill; working to remove barriers
• LGBT and disabled? Email lbgt-disability@disability-solutions.net, or telephone 01782 202611
• Stafford and District Access Group  - working towards improved access in the Borough of Stafford

Advice and support on specific areas of disability

Autism and Asperger Syndrome

• Lifeworks Staffordshire  - supporting high-functioning individuals aged 14 plus with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC)
• National Autistic Society  - (NAS) - general information on Autism and Asperger's Syndrome and information on the Adult Autism strategy and the autism Act 2009
• Staffordshire Adults Autistic Society (SAAS)

Dyslexia

• Beating Dyslexia
• British Dyslexia Association

Epilepsy

• Epilepsy action

Mental Health

• Changes  - Staffordshire Mental health and Wellbeing - for people experiencing mental distress
• Chinese Mental Health Association  - specialises in providing community based mental health assistance and support to the Chinese community in the United Kingdom
• MIND (National Association for Mental Health)
• Muslim Youth Helpline  - registered charity providing culturally sensitive services, including mental heath advice, to Muslim youth in the UK
• Rethink  - Mental Illness - helpline 03005 000927
• Staffordshire Mental Health  - local information on mental health issues; free, confidential helpline Tel: 0808 800 2234
• Students Against Depression  - support for students with depression, low mood or suicidal thoughts
• Time to Change  - campaign to end mental health discrimination and the stigma around mental health

Sensory Impairment

• Action on Hearing Loss  - (formerly Royal National Institute for the Deaf)
• Deaf unity  - portal for supporting deaf communities worldwide
• RNIB  - (Royal National Institute for the Blind) - supporting blind and partially sighted people.
• Signstation  - learn more about BSL (British Sign Language), deafness and d/Deaf people; BSL demonstrated