320 participants with and without lived experience from 23 countries, around 70 presentations and workshops: The 1st Regional DbI Conference in Asia is now open and already a huge and important success.Highlights of the first…
Author: Mirko Baur
Social Justice & The Right to Education
This week is remarkable. 20 February is World Day of Social Justice. It was designated by the UN General Assembly in 2007 to remind us of the need to build a fairer and more equitable…
Meet Us on Bluesky for a Blue Sky!
At DbI, our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion – especially within the context of deafblindness – is at the heart of everything we do.Unfortunately, the values and direction of X no longer align with…
DbI receives the iF Global Impact Prize 2024
We are so proud and so happy: LET ME IN, our Global Education Campaign, just received the IF Global Impact Prize 2024!The jury states in the winner certificate: “The project is positively targeting and assisting…
Connect to Act on the 3rd of December
Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. DbI fully endorses “Nothing Without Us”. While we can celebrate some progress DbI and the world have made, there is much more to be done. People…
IT IS DONE: DEAFBLINDNESS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ICF!
The 1st version of the comprehensive ICF Core Set for Deafblindness is published here https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/A942Kand well launched in Barcelona. This is indeed a very important step forward! It makes deafblindness much more visible as a…