Deafblindness is a combined vision and hearing impairment of such severity that it is hard for the impaired senses to compensate for each other.
To help compensate for the combined vision and hearing impairment, the tactile sense becomes especially important.
Deafblind UK’s video shares John’s experience of being Deafblind.
Useful links:
- Deafblind Scotland
- Deafblind UK
- Turas has training on Deaf Blind awareness if you log in Scorm Player – Deafblind awareness (nhs.scot)