Blog posts by Naomi Dainty
When sight and hearing loss affects your mental wellbeing
Deafblindness is a completely different condition to a sight loss plus a hearing loss. It is a distinct impairment that…
Celebrating Halloween considerately
While Halloween is an opportunity for good fun and celebration, it can also be a challenging time for people living…
Preparing for the clocks going back
With the clocks going back this weekend, we are all preparing for longer nights and colder weather. For people living…
Top 10 Autumn and Winter fundraising ideas
As Summer becomes a distant memory and – dare we say it – Christmas is on its way so, here…
A day in the life of our Information and Advice Line operators
Sight and hearing loss can be frustrating and difficult to cope with, especially if you have other health conditions to…
Grandparents Day
Grandparents Day, which is coming up on Sunday 6th October, is a great opportunity to thank the people in…
The right to an assessment
For years, Deafblind UK and other charities have campaigned for the rights of people with dual sensory loss. This has…
Deafblind UK and OXSIGHT work in partnership to give people their sight back
We’re pleased to announce our new partnership with OXSIGHT, an organisation who produce high-tech glasses that can give people with…
Identifying sight and hearing loss
Thousands of people in the UK are living with sight and hearing loss, but how can you tell whether you,…
Personalised listening
The BBC is trialing an exciting new feature called “accessible and enhanced audio” (A&E) which allows audiences to change the…