Happy International Day of Deafblindness! - 27 June 2025 YouTube video by The World Federation of the Deafblind (WFDB)

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Image of a stack of five pancakes. To the left of the pancakes are the words: It’s Shrove Tuesday.

Happy Shrove Tuesday!

Usability of assistive listening devices by older adults with low vision Purpose: This study examines the performance of individuals with both hearing and vision loss when using assistive listening devices. Methods: Older adults (age 60–100) with low vision only (n = 23...

Usability of assistive listening devices by older adults with low vision: Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology: Vol 11 , No 7 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I am excited to announce that the WHO ICF Core Sets for #deafblindness are now complete and available free online: www.icf-research-branch.org?view=article...

Leda smiling at the camera.

Enjoyed making a short video about our research project with @walterwittich.bsky.social and @peterjsimcock.bsky.social, for @dbiconnect.bsky.social who supported the pilot phase -watch this space!

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Deafblind UK Research Centre To Launch At BCU Barry Snell talks to Dr Peter Simcock, from Birmingham City University (BCU), about an exciting new education and research centre, which hopes to address the issue of dual sensory loss.

Huge thanks to @rnibradio.bsky.social for inviting me on the show to talk about our new #Deafblind UK Centre for Education & Research.

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Did you know that you can set up a reminder to add alt text! Alt text helps vision impaired posters understand images.
Go to Settings, then Accessibility, and make sure "Require alt text before posting" is toggled on - this will prompt you each time you add an image to your post! 3rd request

International project aims to improve complex eye injury treatment options for soldiers fighting in Ukraine Birmingham City University (BCU) has welcomed a delegation of health and education professionals from Ukraine as part of an internationally significant project focused on improving treatment options f...

Wonderful to meet colleagues from Ukraine to talk about our new #Deafblind UK Centre for Education & Research & ‘Deafblind Studies’ ar BCU www.birminghamworld.uk/community/international-project-aims-to-improve-complex-eye-injury-treatment-options-for-soldiers-fighting-in-ukraine-4991687

Copy of the conference poster, starting with the title and details. Date is 13th March and time is 9am (CDT) and 2.00pm (GMT). The poster then lists the speakers: Warren Smith, Wolverhampton University Leila Sarangi & Hannah Barrie, Campaign 2000 Dr Petra Roberts, Toronto Metropolitan University Dr Khadija Williams, Jamaica

Congratulations Leda!

Intersectionality: Is Poverty the Missing Link? Day 2 This is the fifth jointly organised conference

We have an excellent programme of speakers for our forthcoming free online conference:

#Intersectionality: Is #Poverty the Missing Link?

Registration link below. All welcome. #SocialWork

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intersectionality-is-poverty-the-missing-link-day-2-tickets-753779022347

Are you preparing to #commission local #olderpeople’s #daycentre provision? How much do you know about these services? Read about the research #evidence on the Day Centre Resources Hub arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/day-centre-r... @arc-sl @hscwru

Thank you so much! ☺️

Fantastic news! @peterjsimcock.bsky.social this will make such a difference under such great leadership! Well done!!

This is amazing and I’d be happy to take part in any research or whatever. I’m based in Lancashire and connect most often with the Cure Usher charity but would love to know more about Deafblind UK and this new centre. Thank you!

Thank you for connecting with us and for your interest in the centre. Please do keep in touch.

My interest in #deafblindness began in the ‘90s when volunteering with @DeafblindUK so I’m absolutely delighted to be working with them & leading our new Education and Research Centre, responding to the urgent need for more research in the field.

L-R: Peter Simcock, Robert Nola, Nikki Morris and David Childs

‘Game changing’ Deafblind UK research centre to launch at BCU 🦯

The centre, which is the first of its kind, will connect researchers, practitioners, and people living with deafblindness to increase knowledge and raise awareness.

📰 Read more: www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/news/game-ch...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

GIVING VOICE BY DOING WITH NOT DOING THROUGH: COLLABORATING WITH TACTILE SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS IN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS RESEARCH INVOLVING OLDER DEAFBLIND PEOPLE

Simcock, P. et al (2025) / Qualitative Social Work

#openaccess #socialwork

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Delighted to be a CI on this exciting project, working with PI @walterwittich.bsky.social and @kamenopoulou.bsky.social

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Here is the [updated] Nordic definition on #deafblindness norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

Streeting defends timescale for social care reform The first steps to creating a National Care Service are announced - but critics say the pace of the plan

I’ve now completed exhaustive analysis* of the first 6,800 comments here and can reveal that the public’s preferred metaphor for the new #socialcare commission is ‘kicking the can down the road’, outscoring ‘booting it into the long grass’ by a 2-1 margin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The cochlear question: as the parent of a deaf baby, should I give her an implant to help her hear? Cochlear implantation is controversial in ways that parallel medical situations – such as artificial limbs and cornea transplants – are not. Why does this issue provoke such fierce debate? * This essay first appeared under the title The Cochlear…

The cochlear question: as the parent of a deaf baby, should I give her an implant to help her hear?

Just 16 MPs attend debate on disability rights, days after hundreds vote for assisted suicide Just a handful of MPs attended a debate to mark the international day of disabled people, four days after the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill that would legalise assisted suicide. More t…

Just a handful of MPs attended a debate to mark the international day of disabled people, four days after the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill that would legalise assisted suicide.

A starter pack for those looking to connect with the Deafblind Community, champions, allies and researchers go.bsky.app/UZ2XCm

Let me know if you want to be included or if you know others who should be on the list

Deafblind Community Starterpack

Book Review: Inclusive Education for Learners with Multisensory Impairment: Best Practices and Research Priorities - Walter Wittich, 2024

Book Review: Inclusive Education for Learners with Multisensory Impairment: Best Practices and Research Priorities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #deafblindness by @kamenopoulou.bsky.social

Achieving excellence in interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): Four markers of high quality Existing guidance on evaluating the quality of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) research has provided criteria to assess work as good, acceptable or unacceptable. Given that IPA has b...

Nizza, I. E., Farr, J., & Smith, J. A. (2021). Achieving excellence in interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): Four markers of high quality. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 18(3), 369–386. doi.org/10.1080/1478...

Don’t reduce social workers to procedural assessors - we’re so much more than that, argues Hannah Scaife PSW South West network.
We are more coaches than assessors.
Great social care benefits everyone: think ‘us’ not ‘them’

Health and legal experts among 73 academics to sign letter opposing assisted dying Exclusive: The letter says that a private members bill to legalise assisted dying is ‘inadequate’ adding that it ‘lacks prudence...at a time of crisis for the NHS’

🚨Health and legal experts among 73 academics to sign letter opposing ‘inadequate’ assisted dying bill

The academics say Ms Leadbeater’s private member’s bill is “an inadequate parliamentary process for an issue of such ethical and legal complexity”.

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