Lucy Drescher reports on her work joining friends and colleagues across Europe that led to this ground-breaking decision! A historic Written Declaration on the rights of deafblind people was formally adopted by the European Parliament on 1 st April, 2004. This was the...
EDbN was originally set up to access funding from Europe for deafblindness projects. One of its principles was to involve a parent or family representative, deafblind person and professional from each country. Equal importance was attached to the three groups. At one...
A personal experience: Letter of Arleta Kubicka of Poland. My name is Arleta Kubicka. I am a mother of 7 years old daughter, Izabela, who is a deaf-blind child. I live in Poznan, in west of Poland. On 20-27 of October 2002, I participated in the Family Event “Listen...
Semi-structured interview with deafblind people and family members There are at least 150,000 deafblind citizens livings in the European Union. The personal testimony which forms the basis of this report, reveals a group of people who count as amongst the most...
For the young guests activities as: “Beyond the words” artistic activities. For parents: Life and choice by Frank Ullmer Growing up together by Ursula Heinemann Quality of life for family members, Patrizia Ceccarini Presentation of Apascide, the spanish organization...
