What does RIDBC do?

The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) provides a wide range of innovative services and educational programs for children with hearing and/or vision loss.

Over 1000 children with significant vision and/or hearing loss are benefiting from RIDBC’s broad range of tailored services. As well, RIDBC provides vision and hearing screening to more than 2000 babies and children each year. RIDBC supports children from their first weeks of life right through their teenage years.

As well as conducting centres at several locations in Sydney, Newcastle and the Central Coast in NSW, RIDBC provides support services in mainstream schools across Sydney. Through RIDBC Teleschool, RIDBC works extensively with children in regional and remote Australia via in–home videoconferencing. By using the latest communications technology to link deaf children and blind children with RIDBC’s highly specialised staff in Sydney, RIDBC is ensuring disability services are delivered to all Australian families – no matter how remote.

The RIDBC Renwick Centre, in affiliation with the University of Newcastle, conducts world–leading research and offers postgraduate courses in a range of fields relating to the development and education of children with hearing or vision impairment.

RIDBC relies heavily on fundraising and community support to continue to make a difference in the lives of these children.

Want to know more about RIDBC?

For more information, please visit the RIDBC website (www.ridbc.org.au) or call +61 2 9871 1233.