Research is a foundation for many initiatives, campaigns and actions in the Deafblind Community. At the same time, there is often a gap in understanding what researchers do and why in the shared knowledge.
In fact, proper research is a base for effective educational and social services.
Our goal is to:
- Make research purposes seen and known.
- Add personal researcher and participants’ perspectives to the subject
- Attract potential young researchers to the area.
An international team of researchers has developed the project on the ICF Core Set for Deafblindness. Here is the short video that shows the importance and impact of the project in the field of deafblindness and the lives of researchers and participants. Regarding the study results, the team in Spain has uploaded both the comprehensive and brief core sets to the initiative’s website: https://whoisdeafblind.org/.
A special part of this focus is the Research Initiative Global Education Campaign. It supports research in the regions in which education strategies for children with deafblindness need to be developed and made available.
Global Research Initiative aims to promote research into the education of children with deafblindness in the three focus regions of the campaign. DbI invites scientists, practitioners and/or family members to submit research proposals that focus on the education of children with deafblindness in Africa, Asia and Latin America & the Caribbean.
Successful researchers will get a research grant and an advisor to help them with their work if their research proposals are accepted. Successful researchers will also receive funding, to be determined, to present their research at the 19th DbI World Conference in Switzerland, if they submit their work in time.