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Welcome to the website of the Centre of Excellence for Sensory Impairment (COESI)

COESI is an organisation which develops and provides integrated direct services for people with sensory and physical impairments.

The Centre of Excellence website and Helpline aim to enable people of all ages with a hearing, visual or dual sensory loss, and their families and carers, to access a central source of information about sensory and physical impairment services.

The purpose of this website is to provide an online resource for accessing information in one place on the sensory impairment and physical disability services provided by local and national organisations.

Over the next few months we plan to broaden the scope to include information for other areas of the UK.  

Go to the page you want and follow the links to the key local and national information for your service area.

Visual Impairment

Hearing Impairment

Dual Sensory Loss

Physical Mobility

 
COESI is a Charity Registered in England and Wales No.1146322




Doorstep Crime Project 2012-2013 Big Lottery funded.   Page updated April 2013

News

  • Services in North East of England For our second phase of website development we are gathering information about local services in the North East of England for people with sensory impairments. Our first entry is Loftus Optical – an independent optician service located in Loftus which provides a home visit service for people living in rural areas or who find it difficult to travel. (Their services are excellent – I use them myself – Pam Bennett, Director of COESI) Watch this space for more local information and links!
  • Big Lottery Success! COESI has been sucessful with a Big Lottery fund application to improve information on Doorstep Crime for people with sensory loss. Read more about the project....
  • Customer Pathway Find your way to local services - come to COESI first!
  • Youth Groups and Multi-sport COESI is putting in a funding application(or two!) for setting up Multi-Sport activities for young deaf people
  • Croydon Lip Reading Group We have now put details about this group on the Hearing Impairment page
  • Holiday Playscheme To be updated shortly Spring 2012 :- For details of the latest holiday activities for children and young people with hearing impairments, follow this link.
  • How our useful links are chosen
  • Disability Forum contact Croydon Disability Forum is a founder member of COESI - check out their contact details here