An estimated 1.3 billion people – about 16% of the global population – currently experience significant disability.
World Health Organisation (WHO): Disability and Health factsheet 2023
Welcome to our Global Deafblindness Resource Hub, an online platform that provides people with deafblindness (PwDB) and those who support them, with accessible content, information and resources.
The Hub will offer a ‘one stop shop’ into information that can guide and navigate people with deafblindness and their wider support networks to understand and connect more widely with information, local signposted services and networks.
Working directly with people with deafblindness, we want to reach beyond the borders of our eight countries, supporting them to connect with others and to the world around them.
Enabling people with deafblindness to live, learn and thrive.
Help to get started
What is deafblindness
Find out more about deafblindness including different types of deafblindness, its causes in newborn children and adults, diagnosis, signs of deafblindness, treating the underlying causes and managing the condition.
How to support a child with deafblindness in their early years
The first years of a child’s life can be a steep learning curve for parents. Find answers to some of the most common questions – asked by parents and carers of young children with complex disabilities.
Ways of communicating with a person with deafblindness
It’s never too late to start learning a new way of communicating. Find out all the different ways to communicate with a person with deafblindness.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities
Read this brief presentation of some of the rights of people with disabilities, as they are described in the articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
Resources for teaching, caring, learning and thriving
- Life and learning
- News
- Books
- Specialist and technical
- Mobile apps
- Assistive Technology
- Understanding deafblindness
- Support organisations
Dipak’s love of learning
“Dipak deserves to access the same learning environment as everyone else, enabling him to continue to thrive.”
Dipak’s teacher