Guide Dogs SA/NT
Guide Dogs SA/NT promotes independence, inclusion, and wellbeing for people living with low vision or blindness.
For more than 65 years, Guide Dogs SA/NT has used their skills and expertise to promote independence, participation, inclusion, and wellbeing for people living with low vision, blindness and other specialised needs. Beyond their iconic Guide Dogs and Assistance Dogs, Guide Dogs SA/NT provides a range of practical services and supports to help each person reach their unique goals.
Guide Dogs SA/NT’s services include:
- Low Vision Orthoptics: specialised vision assessments to create strategies to make the most of your functional vision, linking you with assistive technology and other vision services to achieve your goals.
- Orientation and Mobility: training in skills and strategies for navigating different environments with low vision. This may include techniques for moving around your home, workplace or community, catching public transport, or using mobility aids such as a white cane.
- Occupational Therapy: one-on-one support to help you live independently. Goals are tailored to your needs, activities of daily living, and may include self-care, household chores, leisure activities, meal preparation and more.
- Community Connection & Skill Building: group sessions for children and adults to provide social connection, community engagement, skill development and support for people living with low vision or blindness.
- Assistive Technology: training and support to use assistive technologies and devices to access information from the world around you, such as screen readers, Braille devices, mini guides, and magnifiers.
- Neurological Vision Services: assessments and training to provide skills and techniques to help you adjust to vision changes from a brain injury or neurological condition.
For more information about Guide Dogs SA/NT and their services, visit the Guide Dogs SA/NT website.
Contact Guide Dogs SA/NT
251 Morphett St, Adelaide SA 5000