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Peter Whelan farewell
On the afternoon of Thursday 12.12.2019, DBV attended a City of Melbourne event to farewell Peter Whelan, who is leaving his role as MetroAccess Project Coordinator. In this role, Peter has worked with people with disabilities in the City of Melbourne to improve community services and make the city more accessible. Peter had been a…
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DeafBlind World Workshop, 16th Nov 2019 – Auslan students
On Saturday 16th November 2019 three DeafBlind DBV members ran another DeafBlind World workshop for Auslan students from Melbourne Polytechic and Monash University, a disability support worker and a digital accessibility analyst. It was a great opportunity to raise awareness about deafblindness. DBV hopes that some of the Auslan students will work with DeafBlind people…
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Self Advocacy Resource Unit’s 10th birthday celebration
On the 3rd of July, The Self Advocacy Resource unit (SARU) had its 10th birthday celebration. It was such an awesome event which was held at Melbourne Town Hall. Michelle Stevens and Heather Lawson both did a great job at representing DBV. Michelle was her hilarious self as usual, making jokes and played the piano…
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The Open Day of our new office at Deafblind Victoria
Last Wednesday, 2nd of May 2018 – the Open Day of our new office at Deafblind Victoria was a successful afternoon. We didn’t expect to have as many DB people, the wonderful staff from Ross House Association and couple of important people from Melbourne City of Council and Deaf Victoria. Our committee member, Heather Lawson…
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DeafBlind World workshop provided to City of Melbourne staff
Deafblind Victorians provided “Deafblind World” Training to City of Melbourne staff in 2016. Here is the article and the website link. EXPERIENCING THE CITY THROUGH DEAF BLIND VICTORIANS Five members of Deaf Blind Victorians (DBV), an energetic independent community group based at Ross House, provided Council staff with a unique opportunity to experience the city…
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Deafblind Communication Book
Deafblind Victorians appreciate City of Melbourne for their funding in December 2016 of $14,000 to develop a Deafblind Communications Book. Deafblind Victorians are currently developing a book for deafblind people to give out to businesses with in their communities so business can have better communication access with deafblind people and how to approach and guide deafblind people. This book will be ready…
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Dr. Nobuyuk Takahashi, a DeafBlind guest speaker from Japan visited
Dr. Nobuyuki Takahashi President of the Japanese Federation of Deafblind and a Doctor of Engineering Teaching at Matsuyama school of the Blind visited Melbourne and gave a presentation about the welfare of deafblind in Japan. The presentation was hosted by DeafBlind Victorians. About 80 people attended
