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Sense Scotland

Sense Scotland works across Scotland with children and adults who have communication support needs because of deafblindness, sensory impairment, learning and physical disabilities.

One of our key areas of expertise is communication. Working closely with people, often on a one-to-one basis, we aim to find out what their aspirations are and how they want to live their lives. Our advisers work with individuals, families, carers and other professionals to ensure people receive the most appropriate support.

Services include:

advice and support for disabled people, families and carers
identifying services and resources
helping with communication and behaviour
advice on learning and personal care
advice on education and other services
short break support
supported community and residential living
day support
holiday support
health development and outdoor education
public policy
practice and training support
arts development

Sense Scotland aims to:

respect and protect the dignity of the people we work with
safeguard people’s rights, safety, privacy and welfare
encourage as much choice as possible
enhance independence by supporting people to do as many things for themselves as possible
help people realise personal fulfilment and provide them with opportunities for learning and having fun
acknowledge the value of risk taking by assessing risk in such a way that it does not stop people trying new things

Overview

Established by the parents of deafblind children in the 1970s Sense Scotland was formalised as a charity in 1985. The organisation and its innovative work with disabled people has grown quickly. By the end of the 90’s the charity had opened family and day centres, and started supported and community living services from Glasgow through to Dundee. This period also saw the development of the Helen Keller International Award and the establishment of health and arts development projects.

As one of the country’s top community care providers, Sense Scotland now works with hundreds of children, adults and their families and has an annual turnover of £14.5 million. Recent developments include the growth of services in the north east and Highlands, development of outdoor education services, growing respite support across the country and the flagship resource TouchBase, due to open in Glasgow in 2007. The values which brought parents together in the 70s and most importantly the aspirations of the disabled people the charity works with, continue to be at the heart of the organisation.

For our Head Office contact

Sense Scotland
43 Middlesex Street, Glasgow G41 1EF

Phone:           0141 429 0294
Fax:                0141 429 0295
Text:               0141 418 7170

Email: info@sensescotland.org.uk
Web: www.sensescotland.org.uk

Public contact:

Family Advisers across Scotland
Email: advisory@sensescotland.org.uk

Media contact:

Graeme Thomson, Communications
Email: gthomson@sensescotland.org.uk

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