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OrCam - a camera that sees for you

Over the past year at Eikholt, we've been exploring a number of new assistive technologies for people with visual and hearing impairments.

Line Hovland in the latest edition of "Optikeren"

Experiencing visual impairment can be difficult enough in itself. What if you also experience seeing things that aren't there in reality, and you can't hear well, so it's difficult to check what's real with your hearing? Do you dare tell anyone?
Image from the climbing wall: Two women are in the centre of a climbing wall, each secured with a rope. To the right, a woman with a full tail is stretching out her arms and holding on to the rope high up, her left leg has reached the next step. The interpreter is on the left, she gives a haptic signal about where the next hold for the right arm is.

Health sports - a good combination of physical activity for course participants with deafblindness and varied practice for interpreting students.

Helsesport is an activity week for deafblind people and an internship week for all interpreting students in Norway. It takes place over two weeks in the autumn, with the same programme both weeks. Over the years, the activities have included chess, running courses, yoga, hiking days, strength and balance training, bowling, dance, crossfit and cycling. In addition, there are various lectures.

Haptic with guide dog

Use of tablets and mobile phones for banking and public services
Image by the NVC editorial team

Book on tactile language now in English

The book "If you can see it, you can support it" is now available in English. On this occasion, we would like to present the idea behind the book and the editorial team responsible for its creation.

The Chinese Neuro - Ophthalmological Society 8th Conference

Rolf Lund from Eikholt, was invited as keynote speaker at this conference, and lectured on the role of the brain in the interaction between vision, hearing and balance.

If you can see it, you can support it - a book about tactile language

"When we put on our language glasses and attach a linguistic value to bodily tactile expressions, we can also communicate with people with congenital deafblindness on a linguistic level." This is the starting point for the new Nordic book, and the result of several years of Nordic co-operation and professional development.
Image of the cover of the special needs education magazine

"Never say never" published in Spesialpedagogikk

Line Hovland has written an article about the story of Linda - a young woman with congenital deafblindness. At the age of 29, she finally learns to read and write.

Close person course

Week 41 (11 - 12 October) From Friday morning to Saturday morning

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