Welcome from Trish Wetton, CEO.
Providing personalised services to adults who are deafblind with additional disabilities is all we do at Forsight and we are getting better and better at it. We think Deaf/Blind and we live Deaf/Blind. In doing this we learn how to interpret what each person is ‘saying’ to us. We learn how to respond or initiate words using personalised Finger-spelling, Braille, Compic Symbols, touch cues with some Auslan signs blended in. At Forsight fingers become our eyes.
Taking the time to allow each person to be as independent as possible requires us to stand back and wait patiently for a person to take the initiative to do something for him or herself. The look of satisfaction when something goes right is impossible to miss.
Coordinating 7 community group homes scattered throughout Sydney from the Group Home Support Centre in North Rocks is a challenging but rewarding task for our management team. Trust in fellow workers is strengthened by an invisible thread that entwines our group homes together as one large home for the 32 adults entrusted to our care.
The web site cannot capture the full picture so I would like to extend an Invitation to you to visit Forsight. You may be a friend of Forsight, a donor or volunteer, a family member, an Advocate or Guardian, a student studying in a related discipline, a Forsight employee or a person who would like to link up with this wonderful organisation to get to know us better. Whoever you are, whatever your reason for visiting our web site, we would like to welcome you. If you are interested in visiting Forsight, please contact Nerida Beatty at the Group Home Support Centre.
What is Deafblindness?
Deafblindness is described as a unique and isolating sensory disability resulting from the combination of both a hearing and vision loss or impairment which significantly affects communication, socialisation, mobility and daily living.
Who we are.
OUR BEGINNING
In 1978, parents of deaf and blind children established their own organisation in collaboration with founders Tom and Jean Grunsell. Today there are 8 independent group homes supported by 35 full-time, part-time and casual staff caring for 32 adults with sensory and additional disabilities, offering choices and producing outcomes their parents could only dream about in 1978.
OUR PURPOSE
To provide quality accommodation support services and facilitate training and employment for adults who are deaf and blind with additional disabilities, enhancing and enriching their lives.