This week is Deafblind Awareness Week 2014. According to the web site of UK based charity Sense “Deafblindness is a combination of sight and hearing loss that affects a person’s ability to communicate, to access all kinds of information, and to get around.

Deafblindness is not just a deaf person who cannot see, or a blind person who cannot hear. The two impairments together increase the effects of each.

People of all ages can have a sight or hearing impairment. It may have been from birth, or due to deterioration later in life. But most deafblind people have some vision and hearing.”

Another organisation involved in the week , Deafblind UK, have produced this brilliant infographic which you can download here. Deafblind Awareness Week 2014 Infographic

To help promote the week it would be great if you could share this page using the two hashtags #DBAW2014 and #deafblindaware.

Many thanks in advance.