Eikholt is a resource and competence centre, with specialists in combined visual and hearing impairment/deafblindness. Our commitment does not stop at course activities and customised services for users. We are also committed to expertise development, research and dissemination. We want to be at the forefront, exploring new opportunities and developing new knowledge that can help change lives.
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Senior advisor at Eikholt, Victoria Falen, has conducted a survey on how user-controlled personal assistance (BPA) works for people with deafblindness. Eikholt has now published a report that summarises the results of this survey.
The long-awaited Haptics: pocket edition app has been relaunched! The app provides an overview of 144 haptic signals - a method of conveying information through touch. The app is especially important for people with visual impairment and combined visual and hearing impairment/deafblindness, their networks and professionals.
Senior researcher André Vågan has recently published an academic article together with colleagues at his former workplace in the Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Learning for Coping and Health. The article describes experiences with online courses in health education for healthcare professionals and users. The authors conclude that online courses can help to strengthen health education expertise, even for large groups.
How can technology improve quality of life and independence for people with dual sensory loss? In this series, we meet people with combined visual and hearing impairment who have found their favourite assistive technology - and let them tell us in their own words how it makes a difference. This time we talk to Pål Kjetil Lyngstad, who uses his favourite assistive technology, VoxiVision.
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