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Deafblind Awareness Week [16] [17] runs at the end of June to coincide with the birthday of Helen Keller. [18] In 2021, it fell on the week of 28 June - 4 July. [19] The week aims to make dual sensory loss a more widely known condition; educating people about what it is and letting them know what to look out for in themselves and others.
Jul. 1—WILKES-BARRE — In honor of Deafblind Awareness Week and Helen Keller's birthday, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright this week introduced bipartisan legislation to help overcome barriers and ...
NCW 2025 is taking place from Monday 17 March - Sunday 23 March. It aims to transform how neurodivergent individuals are perceived and supported by providing schools, universities, and organisations with the opportunity to recognise the many talents and advantages of being neurodivergent, while creating more inclusive and equitable cultures ...
The deafblind community has its own culture, comparable to those of the Deaf community. Members of the deafblind community have diverse backgrounds but are united by similar experiences and a shared, homogeneous understanding of what it means to be deafblind. [6] Some deafblind individuals view their condition as a part of their identity. [7]
An important achievement of Vision 2020 was improving awareness of the burden of blindness. Getting prevention of blindness onto the healthcare agenda of the WHO and its member states ensured that those countries included allocations for eye care in their budgets. World Sight Day also helps to raise awareness of blindness and visual impairment. [8]
International Week of the Deaf International Day of Sign Languages (IDSL) is celebrated annually across the world on 23 September every year along with International Week of the Deaf . The choice of 23 September is the same date that the World Federation of the Deaf was established in 1951.
Helen Keller Day is a commemorative holiday to celebrate the birth of Helen Keller, observed on June 27 annually.The holiday observance was created by presidential proclamation in 2006 as well as by international organizations, particularly those helping the blind and the deaf.
Christine "Coco" Roschaert, director of the Nepal Deafblind Project, kick-off speaker for Deaf Awareness Week at the University of Vermont, and participant in the Gallaudet United Now Movement. [26] Catherine Fischer wrote her autobiography of growing up with Usher syndrome in Louisiana, entitled Orchid of the Bayou. [27]