If you receive a prescription for one of these items you take your prescription to a local accredited retailer who will provide you with the item. Alternatively you can ‘top-up’ paying extra for an item that does what the specific item prescribed would do, but offers extra features or perhaps you prefer its appearance. The scheme is designed to stimulate and encourage choice and control.

The PenSilly pen itself is sturdy & the batteries are still going in it after a few rounds of play. I haven’t tried it out myself yet, but I believe the marker pens that come with it can be replaced by any pens of the same size. This game can be adapted to different themes or categories, such as animals, countries, or food, adding an extra element of challenge and learning. It involves drawing a 3×3 grid and taking turns placing Xs and Os to create a line of three in a row. Some manual machines for creating Braille are portable, others are designed as desktop machines, similar to traditional manual typewriters. Telephone Pictionary not only sparks laughter and amusement but also promotes creativity, interpretation, and communication skills.Items that are not available in store will take 3-5 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays) to be delivered to your nominated store. If you have not learnt to touch type then finding your way around a computer keyboard may be difficult if you have low vision. There are keyboards and accessories which may help you to navigate around the keyboard. The RNIB Newsagent (formerly National Talking Newspapers and Magazines) provides a wide range of newspapers and magazines for people who find standard print inaccessible. It offers a range of newspaper and magazine titles in a variety of accessible formats, including audio CD or USB, DAISY CD, Braille, large print and online.

Studies have suggested that smaller print sizes may be read at faster reading speeds when using video magnifiers compared with traditional magnifiers, but that users may be slower at initially finding the text they are looking for. Hand-held optical magnifiers are available with built-in lighting from a bulb or LED to help illuminate the area being viewed. Some are available with lighting of different colour temperatures. These colour temperatures are described in Kelvin or K. A lower number (e.g. 2,700K) emits a more yellow light, a higher number (e.g. 6,000K) emits a whiter light. Voice diallers allow you to dial a number by speaking the name of the person you wish to call. Certain mobile telephones offer voice control as a feature for using the entire telephone as part of the telephone’s integral settings.Portable video magnifiers are larger than handheld magnifiers but are still transportable. The screen and camera may be combined or as separate units connected by a cable. Foldover Drawings not only stimulate creativity and artistic expression but also promote teamwork, adaptability, and surprise. The game continues in a chain-like fashion until a player can’t think of a word within the allocated time. We had great fun playing PenSilly! It is not as easy as it sounds – the pen makes everything you attempt to draw rather wobbly. However, this makes the pictures exceedingly funny at times & pretty much impossible to guess when drawn by a 5-year-old. Don’t let this put you off though – it really gave us belly laughs. Also, the amount of vocabulary & communication building she got from it was worth it as she tried to answer our questions as to what she had drawn. Plus, reading the prompt cards was great reading practise without her even realising it!