Dual Sensory Impairment Project
Capturing the hidden epidemic
Dual Sensory Impairment Project
Capturing the hidden epidemic
THANK YOU!! Well, it’s the week after the most amazing conference ever! (one of them anyway) Thank you so much for joining us, in-person or online. We had two incredible days, with three hundred days to prepare, over two hundred attendees, fifty speakers, facilitators and chairs, thirty volunteers and helpers, twelve flavours of ice cream, ten spaces, three international presenters, …
DAY TWO PROGRAM Friday 28th November 2025 8:00am Registrations open at Susan Wakil Building, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus 8:30am Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to the Conference Day 2 Empowering Access: Technology and Inclusion Through a Deafblind Lens Presentation and live demonstration from the National Relay Service Introduction to Social-Haptic Communication 11:10am Morning tea break 11:30am Morning Workshops – …
Alarming thought for the day for a conference organiser: it is around three weeks until the big, beautiful conference co-convened by the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. But it is good news for conference attendees as the final program is released. Today we will share the day one program which is a combination of presentations, performances and ice cream (yes, …
THIS WEEK’S REMINDERS Accessibility Travel Subsidies We will be sending out more information about the conference in the coming weeks, including the program, requests for further information, and workshop registrations, so please keep an eye on your emails. PRESENTER PROFILE Dr. Tara Brown-Ogilvie Dr. Tara Brown-Ogilvie (she/her) has over 14 years of experience in the DeafBlind community, working in roles such as …
Moira recently represented the DUAL-SIP team at the Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation conference in beautiful Florence, Italy. Not the first time she’s presented in Italy – the last time was in Lake Como in 2012 for the Vision-Hearing Project led by Julie – so its been a while between visits. Florence did not disappoint! First, the conference – it …
The University of Sydney hosted an event on Monday, 8th September. We invited Professor Tom Shakespeare from the UK via Zoom to address the state of affairs in disability thinking and experience engaging us today. Tom is a renowned social scientist and a Professor of Disability Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has published over a …
Thursday 27th November, Friday 28th November 2025 REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/national-deafblind-conference-tickets-1459528391709 This two-day, lived experience-led conference is a collaboration between the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. It is directly informed by the insights of people living with combined sight and hearing loss, gathered through the 2024 survey on community needs and wants, as well as by input from professionals, practitioners, and organisations …
At NextSense, Macquarie University, the Hunter Deafblind Project from CDAH and Newcastle Deafblind members came down from Newcastle to run their Deafblind Awareness Week 2025 event. Community members Carleeta, Lisa and Pat shared their lived experience. They spoke on how their deafblindness turned their world upside down, some of the many challenges they face, and how they remain positive as …
While in Helsinki, Annmaree Watharow, Skye Wallace, Amanda Francis and Tony Yee met with Russ Palmer, Riitta Lahtinen and interpreter Stina Ojala at the Hotel Lilla Roberts to conduct a Social-Haptic Masterclass. Russ is a deafblind person with Usher syndrome, and he and his wife Riitta began developing social-haptic communication in 1991. For over 30 years, they have been working …
Annmaree Watharow, Susannah McNally, Skye Wallace and Amanda Francis Annmaree, Amanda and Skye from the Dual Sensory Impairment Project travelled to Helsinki for the Nordic Network for Disability Research conference held at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Annmaree, assisted by Amanda (social-haptic communication) and Skye (driving the tech devices and communication), presented on one aspect of the survey we …