About 60 participants - some from as far away as Holland and Japan - are attending the annual Deaf-Blind Retreat this week at the Seabeck Conference Center. ... Seabeck deaf-blind retreat draws worldwide guestsSeattle Post Intelligencer all 11 news articles » [...] more »

Julie Nise, a straightforward marriage and family therapist, was acknowledged in her sixth appearance on the Dr. Phil Show which aired on May 31. Julie was thanked for her assistance with George and Liz Hooker, the parents of the disabled triplets. The situation with the couple, who are the parents of the world’s only deaf and blind triplets, was causing tremendous stress on their relationship just at the point when they needed to pull together. Her direct, yet compassionate, and no-nonsense approach to relationship counseling helped them to reconnect and focus on their strengths as a couple so they could deal with their children more effectively. [...] more »

OPINION: Earmuffs, blindfolds and purpose Newsday (subscription) When I asked to become a volunteer at the Helen Keller National Center for the Deaf/Blind in Sands Point, I was placed in a room by myself and sat in a ... and more » [...] more »

THE number of people who are both deaf and blind in Wales is expected to grow by 57% in just 20 years. A report by deafblind charity Sense said people over ... [...] more »

An Israeli theatre company of deaf and blind actors has become a sensation in Tel Aviv - having performed in front of 150000 people in the city's Nalagaat ... and more » [...] more »

I want to show the deaf-blind community that they can do it regardless of their dual disability — deafness and blindness. I want to educate the world about ... [...] more »

The world’s first blind and deaf theatre company is bringing its critically-acclaimed play to the London stage for the first time. In Not By Bread Alone the actors - from the Israeli Nalaga’at Company - share stories as they knead, leaven and bake bread onstage. [...] more »

Cuba welcomes the International Day of the Deaf-Blind, with achievements in the rehabilitation and social integration of one thousand people, across the country, affected by the double limitation. [...] more »

Blind-deaf people use technology to connect with other people and get information about the world. Check out the website, Using GPS: What is it, what does it do, and how is it beneficial for the Deaf-Blind. That site has a collection of articles that describe the kinds of technology for deaf-blind people and how deaf-blind people use them. Portable GPS systems are available to the deaf-blind population as add-on to notetakers such as the Braille Note, Braille Sense and the Pac Mate. All three of the above mentioned products bring the power of GPS to the deaf-blind consumer, according to the website. [...] more »

Julie Nise, a straightforward marriage and family therapist, was acknowledged in her sixth appearance on the Dr. Phil Show which aired on May 31 and is tentatively scheduled to air again on August 13, 2010. Julie was thanked for her assistance with George and Liz Hooker, the parents of the disabled triplets. The situation with the couple, who are the parents of the world’s only deaf and blind triplets, was causing tremendous stress on their relationship just at the point when they needed to pull together. Her direct, yet compassionate, and no-nonsense approach to relationship counseling helped them to reconnect and focus on their strengths as a couple so they could deal with their children more effectively. [...] more »

CATHERINE Field, 48, was born with a condition which means she is deaf and blind. She lives in Rayleigh, Essex, with husband Simon, who is also deaf and daughters Elizabeth and Jennifer. Here she explains how she battled adversity to have a family. [...] more »

Nalaga'at (Hebrew for "do touch") is a remarkable place. As well as the Blackout restaurant, there's Cafe Kapish, run by deaf waiters. Situated in an old warehouse overlooking the Mediterranean, Nalaga'at is the world's only professional deaf-blind ensemble. All its actors are deaf and blind, often because of a genetic disorder called Usher syndrome, which results in acute deafness at birth, followed by gradual loss of vision [...] more »

Genetic researchers in Germany believe their research will lead to better ways to diagnose Usher syndrome. This condition causes up to ten percent of all cases of deafness in children and 50 percent of combined deafness and blindness in adults. [...] more »

For the parents of a deaf child, it would be advantageous to be aware of the retinal degeneration that will occur later on. "Research on new Usher genes ... [...] more »

Not by Bread Alone, from Israel, is an uplifting, tactile piece, performed entirely by deaf-blind actors from the Nalaga'at Center in Tel Aviv. ... [...] more »