Providing appropriate instruction for any student who is deafblind is challenging since each student’s access needs are truly unique. This year’s Texas Symposium on Deafblind Education will dive deep to examine why students in Texas…
The deafblind writer María Jesús Cañamares wins the 2020 European Writing Contest on Braille
The Spanish writer with deafblindness María Jesús Cañamares Muñoz (Jábaga, Cuenca) has won the 2020 European Braille Writing Contest, with his work entitled ‘Braille: A mark in the lockdown’, which was the winner among 45…
DBI is launching a service for meeting and communicating with DBI members around the world – DBInternationalBot
Deafblind International is growing rapidly and we have many new members. So it is important that we know each other better with the use of simple and funny tools. We are launching a service for…
Dr. Walter Wittich is the recipient of the 10th Annual JT Award
We are excited to announce that Dr. Walter Wittich, Associate Professor at the University of Montreal in the School of Optometry, and chair of the Deafblind International Research Network is the recipient of the 10th Annual…
New bill in Chile promotes full social inclusion of deafblind people
On October 1, 2020, in Santiago de Chile at 1:00 p.m. unanimously, the Chamber of Deputies approved and sent to second processing the bill that recognizes deafblindness as a unique disability and promotes full social…