{"id":381,"date":"2024-02-27T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/deafblindness\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:51:29","slug":"deafblindness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/deafblindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Deafblindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deafblindness is a combined vision and hearing impairment of such severity that it is hard for the impaired senses to compensate for each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help compensate for the combined vision and hearing impairment, the tactile sense becomes especially important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M4yFAowsp4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deafblind UK\u2019s video shares John\u2019s experience of being Deafblind.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deafblind Awareness Week - John&#039;s story\" width=\"1520\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M4yFAowsp4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Useful links:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbscotland.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deafblind Scotland<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deafblind.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deafblind UK<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turas has training on Deaf Blind awareness if you log in <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.nes.nhs.scot\/Scorm\/Launch\/30517\">Scorm Player &#8211; Deafblind awareness (nhs.scot)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-381","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"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","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/ehre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}