Living with deafblindness

Deafblindness has a significant impact on a person’s experience of communication, socialisation, mobility and daily living.

Deafblind people use a range of communication methods, including:

• Alternative and augmented communication including touch cues/haptics, pictographs and key word signs
• Auslan (Australian Sign Language) including a variety of ways of receiving sign language such as visual frame, tracking and tactile/hand over hand
• Deafblind fingerspelling
• Oral and aural communication (speaking and listening)
• Printed words or Braille, including print on palm and electronic communications such as email and text message (SMS).