A Teaching System for Non-disabled People Who Communicate with Deafblind People

The World Health Organizaion (WHO) states that 15 percent of world population are with disabilities. Deafblindness is a combination of vision and hearing impairments. There are a few people who are completely deaf and blind. Our world is organised around hearing sighted people, and this can present many challenges to a deafblind person. If you have little or no sight and hearing, learning to communicate, to make yourself understood, or hear other people speaking is very difficult and can be isolating. In a crowded room a sighted hearing person sees who is talking to them and hears what they are saying. A deaf person may use their vision to lip read what others are saying. But if they lose their sight as well, how will they know someone is trying to communicate. We all depend on information and feedback means, about what is going on around us. This is difficult for deafblind people to access if they don’t get the right support.