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For more details see Enjoy-Able Living’s Home Help & Alert solutions Pelham Products has worked closely with both the RNIB , RNID and Occupational Therapists to develop a range of daily living solutions to assist those with sensory impairments as well as those who’s eye sight or hearing just isn’t quite what it used to be.
The range of large font keyboards are not only suitable for low vision users and ‘silver surfers’ but also helpful for dyslexia and other learning difficulties, there is even a lower case keyboard for younger children.
Andy
Also we can supply Group Activity Packs for Day Care and Residential activity coordinators. Each Activity Pack consists 24 book sets (6 each of the 4 titles within the series). Younger children are catered for with a Copy Colouring Book A4 size 24 pages. More details of the ranges stocked can be seen on the Enjoy-Able Living web site Andy Homewood We are now stocking a range of Easi-Grip® Scissors for both children & adults.  Mini-Easi-Grip® Scissors For children using scissors is a complex motor control activity. Our wide range of adapted scissors and associated publications assists the child with special needs to develop this important skill. Our adult range of scissors have been designed to overcome difficulties encountered by those with arthritis or other conditions that make the use of conventional style scissors uncomfortable or impossible.
Follow this link to our web site for more details and pictures of the range. Andy Homewood Enjoy-Able Living will be exhibiting a range of products at the CMT Annual Conference Exhibition in Coventry - April 2010 CMT is a condition that affects the nerves in your legs and arms, known as the peripheral nerves and is thought to affect approximately 23,000 in the UK - for more information see www.cmt.org.uk. Venue: Hilton Coventry Hotel, Paradise Way, Walsgrave Triangle, Coventry, CV2 2ST
Dream Toys employ switch adapted technology that helps put children and young adults in charge.
Andy Homewood Written by a dear friend and fellow Occupational Therapist Hazel Boomkamp-Lee (We trained together at the London School of Occupational Therapy) ‘Lula and the Rainbow Rocket’ is a rollicking and humorous story. Lula’s determination to succeed makes this such a positive and life-affirming read and the whacky adventures she has along the way makes the story all the more enjoyable.
Lula, the central character is an immensely likeable, curious, plucky, energetic and extremely capable girl who overcomes a devastating accident that renders her paraplegic and a wheel chair user. The places and characters have been brought to life by imaginative names and descriptive and amusing similes which had me chuckling out loud on many occasions. Promisingly, the clever ending is full of future possibilities for further adventures. If you are looking for a positive role model, Lula fits the bill perfectly.
More details can be found on our website: www.enjoy-able.co.uk or on www.lularocket.com
Sandy Homewood
After many months of researching, writing business plans and website development www.enjoy-able.co.uk went ‘live’ at the beginning of August. It has been a ‘soft launch’ to start with – concentrating on final web site enhancements, search engine optimisation, link building and the start of online network marketing to promote the web site. A big thank you to the team at ekmpowershop whose help and patience was invaluable in getting the enjoy-able web site up and running. Thanks in particular to their in-house designer John Slater for so speedily & successfully translating my ‘brief’ into the website template design and to Jason Rothwell, Technical Support for answering all my numerous development questions with the greatest of patience and courtesy! Thanks also to Miranda Redman at NRS for her generous help in providing product images, descriptions and more! More thanks!..to all Sandy’s Occupational Therapy colleagues/friends for their input…keep sending the comments and suggestions in please! Finally must mention Peter Banner my Business Link Mentor for his help, practical advice and encouragement – it was much appreciated. The next few weeks will be very busy as new products are brought online and the marketing begins in earnest. Andy Homewood Enjoy-Able Online shopping is more environmentally friendly than driving to the shops, according to the Logistics Research Centre at Heriot-Watt University. The Team found that, on average, having goods delivered to a home address by parcel carrier generates significantly less carbon dioxide than making a special trip to buy the same item. The research compared the carbon footprints of online and conventional shopping for small goods such as books, CD’s cameras and household items. It was found that a typical van-based home delivery produced 181g CO2 compared with 4,274 CO2 for an average trip to the shops by car. An average bus trip by a shopper produced 1,265 CO2. In other words, when a customer drives to the shops and buys fewer that 24 small, non-food itesm per trip or travels by bus (individuals disabilities allowing!) and buys fewer than 7 items, home delivery is more environmentally-friendly. Internet retailers have long claimed that shopping online is better for the environmant. However Professor Alan McKinnon, Director of The Logistics Research Centre, and one of the authors, pointed out that “While this research suggests that home delivery is less carbon intensive, neither it nor a conventional shopping trip can be said to have an absolute environment advantage. Someone using public transport at peak times and buying goods in bulk can match the emissions per item of home delivery”. The critical factors in the calculation are the number of items purchased per shopping trip, the choice of travel made, the probability of the consumer being at home to receive the goods and the way in which unwanted goods are returned . The figures quoted above and the way in which unwanted goods are returned. The figures qoted above make no allowance for failed home delivery or the return of unwanted products, though these complications are addressed in the report. * With thanks to Internet Retailing for the article - see May Newsletter edition: www.internetretailing.net Thousands of people who think the internet isn’t for them are getting online the easy way – thanks to “myguide” and UK online centres. The “myguide” website – www.myguide.gov.uk – offers free, easy-to-use email and web-search tools from a simple, banner-free website. It also includes basic ICT courses – from how to use a keyboard and mouse to keeping safe online, using government e-services, social networking and even online job-hunting. “myguide” allows people to personalise and save settings, change colours, font size and even choose to use a built-in ‘hear it’ function which reads the text on screen. Because it’s for absolute beginners, it’s also designed to be supported, so people’s first steps onto the internet are supervised and so positive they’ll want to keep on using it. *With thanks to AbilityNet for information on “myguide” - please see: www.abilitynet.org.uk/myguide.php or go to ”myguide” www.myguide.gov.uk/myguide/MyguideHome.do
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This multi functional ear and forehead thermometer includes a large LCD screen and high quality voice and speaker, making it ideal for everybody including those with visual impairments. The washable sensor tip is capable of measuring both ear and forehead temperature in two seconds.
Enjoy-Able Living stock a selection of Pelham Products for people with low vision, including large font, easy to see items such as keyboards and clocks.
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Dream-Racer is the name of the switch adapted technology developed to give individuals with limited upper body mobility the opportunity to play with radio controlled racing cars, trucks or boats. 
Dream-Gamer is a switch adapted controller for use with the Sony PlayStation 1, 2 and 3. Dream-Gamer has been designed so that children and young adults with physical disabilities can play games on the Sony PlayStation using a range of controllers.
Dream-Toys are a new series of sensory and switch adapted toys produced for young children (3 to 7 years) with special needs. The toys are suitable for blind and partially sighted, deaf and hard-of-hearing and young children with other special needs. 