National Deafblind Conference 2025: Filling in the Gaps and Joining the Dots
ph...@sonokids.com
Dear colleagues and friends,
As the South Pacific Educators in Vision Impairment (SPEVI Inc) is the leading professional body to advocate for excellence and equity in education for students with blindness and low vision, including deafblindness and multiple disabilities, I am happy to share below news about the National Deafblind Conference 2025: Filling in the Gaps and Joining the Dots
By Centre for Disability Research and Policy
Date: Thursday 27th November, Friday 28th November 2025
Location: Susan Wakil Health Building, The University of Sydney (Australia)
Level 4, Event Space Western Avenue Camperdown, NSW 2050.
Attendance is free. For all information and to register for tickets to attend online or in person, visit the Conference website.
This two-day, lived experience-led conference is a collaboration between the University of Sydney and Macquarie University.
It is directly informed by the insights of people living with combined sight and hearing loss, gathered through the 2024 survey on community needs and wants, as well as by input from professionals, practitioners, and organisations that support them.
Dr Annmaree Watharow from The University of Sydney, and Dr Diana Tang from Macquarie University, have developed a program that brings together individuals and families living with dual sensory impairment - deafblindness, alongside professionals, practitioners, researchers and organisations. The program fosters mutual learning, networking, collaboration and a shared commitment to improving the experience of living with sensory losses.
The program will spread across two days.
Day 1 will showcase plenary sessions and panel discussions with world-leading experts and people with lived experience of sensory losses.
Day 2 will offer four streams of workshops addressing Creativity, Communications, and Better Living.
Kind regards,
Phia
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Phia Damsma
Creative Director Sonokids Australia - Developers of Accessible Educational Software and Apps https://www.sonokids.org
Fellow of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia