Background: People with deafblindness experience stigmatization, exclusion, and isolation.
Due to complex communication challenges, feelings of isolation and exclusion can increase …

Educating Special Students is the definitive guide to evidence based practice and
professionally informed approaches to provision for special students. Now in its third edition …

To be born deaf and blind creates both communicative and language acquisition barriers for
a child. Although case studies, research, and practical reports have described the severe …

Background Deafblindness is a rare condition, and its prevalence has been reported to be
approximately 1 in 27 000 new‐borns worldwide. For individuals with deafblindness, lifelong …

Background Due to their dual sensory impairment, people with congenital deafblindness
(CDB) are rarely naturally involved in other people's conversations. Their communication …

This study aimed to analyse the quality of the signs offered by one of the communication
partners of an individual with CDB and the effect of this quality on their interaction success …

As a teacher and interpreter of (tactile) sign language, I was pleased to learn that students of
the Master's programme Deafblindness were granted the freedom to choose the topic for …