Communication Network

The DbI Communication Network aims to contribute to DbI magazine, offer regular webinars, provide PreConference events and Network meetings at DbI conferences and make information available in the form of publications.

If you are interested in communication development for people with congenital deafblindness and using video analysis to support this work, you are welcome to join our network.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Chair of the Communication Network
Prof. Dr. Saskia Damen

HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER:

Please contact the DbI Secretariat

If you would like to join the DbI Communication Network e-mail list, please send an e-mail to us with the phrase ‘Please add me to DBI Communication Network” in the title. You will then receive email updates with current developments and news. To connect with others in the field of deafblindness that share an interest in communication and deafblindness, please join our Facebook Group titled Deafblind International Communication Network (currently in development).

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

The DbI Communication Network is one of the oldest and most active networks of Deafblind International and was founded in 1989 at the DbI conference in Warwick. It started as the European Working group on Communication and for many years this network organized conferences and courses in Europe as a smaller regional network.

Now the aims of the DbI Communication Network are:

  • To share knowledge on communication from different countries.
  • To support smaller networks working autonomously or together to share knowledge about specific aspects of communication and deafblindness.
  • To open the Communication Network to individual members, including professionals, persons with deafblindness, parents and siblings, researchers and other people who are interested in this topic.
  • To support use of video analysis of communication between persons with deafblindness and their
    communication partners, to promote improved interactions.

The DbI Communication Network committee are:

Prof. Dr. Saskia Damen, The Netherlands (Chair and Network leader)
Dr. Meredith Prain, Australia (Committee member)
Helle Buelund Selling, Denmark (Committee member)
Steve Rose, Australia (Committee member)

On Facebook, please visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/156113075090218/members

To become a member of this DbI Network please register here:
Register Individual DbI and Network Membership – Deafblind International