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Deafblind International 16^th World Conference

The 16th World Conference of Deafblind International will be celebrated on 25 – 30 May 2015 in Bucharest, Romania. This is a great occasion for professionals, families and deafblind people to come together and to share and learn from each other’s experiences.

The Theme

Tony Best, Chair, Scientific Committee

The central question for the conference will be our future. As the field of deafblindness expands with services to more people in more countries, how do we ensure that children and adults with deafblindness will receive support which is of a high quality as well as being culturally appropriate?

This conference will take place at a unique time in our history – we are now becoming very clear about the needs created by deafblindness, and know that many of these needs are experienced whenever deafblindness occurs. At the same time, we have developed as a field, to a mature stage in which there are different approaches to meeting these needs, each approach can be excellent in their own way but may be culturally appropriate to a specific part of the world. For the first time, we are beginning to accept that local solutions can successfully meet the needs created by deafblindness. No longer is there just one, best way.

The conference will reflect this exciting time in our development with the opportunity to hear about the range of services and approaches being developed around the world. Please come and join in. You will be learning, exploring, debating; listening, explaining and exchanging ideas and experiences. This is a unique gathering, offering the only chance to meet with colleagues from such a large number of countries. What is our future? You decide.

Final abstract submission deadline: 30 January 2015