mobile advisory service - MAS

Two Mobile Advisory Service vans travel throughout Southern England bringing information and advice to a place near you.

See left for buttons to take you to venue lists for both the South East and Somerset.

Our MAS vehicles currently operate in:

• Surrey
• Hampshire
• Somerset

The MAS vehicles demonstrate the following equipment:

• Telephone amplifiers
• Flashing light doorbells
• Alarm clocks
• Visual and vibrating alerting devices
• TV loop systems and personal listeners
• Textphones

The MAS vehicles also supply leaflets on a range of issues of interest to Deaf and hard of hearing people on the following:

• Welfare benefits
• Tinnitus
• Lip reading classes
• Contacting Social Services
• Basic care and maintenance of hearing aids
• Local social and support groups for Deaf and hard of hearing people
• Signposting to other agencies
• and much more

Hampshire:

In Hampshire, deafPLUS works closely with Hampshire County Council’s ‘Early Intervention Service’ managed by a team of Communication Rehabilitation Officers.  We visit a variety of venues across the county (timetable subject to change, please contact the South office for details).

Clients can try out equipment, take away catalogues and factsheets, receive up to date information on lip reading classes, deaf clubs, hard of hearing groups and other support services in their area and much more! 

We make referrals to the Early Intervention Service for clients who may benefit from additional support and who may qualify for equipment from the service free of charge.  

Anyone can visit the van at any location without a referral from the Early Intervention Service, and if you are worried about any aspect of your hearing and we will do our best to help or signpost you to the relevant person or organisation best suited to help you. 

Surrey:

In Surrey, we have a long established relationship with a large number of venues across the county including sheltered accommodations and town centre locations, lip reading classes and community and day centres. 

We are able to provide basic hearing aid maintenance on NHS issued hearing aids in Surrey,  as well as equipment demonstration and referral to Surrey County Council’s Deaf Servcies Team for those who need extra support.  If you live or work in Surrey and would like to suggest a venue for us to visit, please do contact oursouth office and we will endeavour to help.

Somerset

In Somerset, deafPLUS works closely with Somerset County Council’s ‘Early Intervention Service’ managed by a team of Communication Rehabilitation Officers.  We visit a variety of venues across the county (timetable subject to change, please contact the South office for details).

Clients can try out equipment, take away catalogues and factsheets, receive up to date information on lip reading classes, deaf clubs, hard of hearing groups and other support services in their area and much more! 

We make referrals to the Early Intervention Service for clients who may benefit from additional support and who may qualify for equipment from the service free of charge.  

Anyone can visit the van at any location without a referral from the Early Intervention Service, and if you are worried about any aspect of your hearing and we will do our best to help or signpost you to the relevant person or organisation best suited to help you. 

For the latest venues, please see the button on the left. For contact details, click on the Contact Us button on your left.