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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.
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.
"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.
Presentation of lecturers
Successful National Interpreting Conference in Haptic Communication
HSE Buskerud and Eikholt organised two full days focusing on haptic communication. Around 65 people, most of whom were interpreters for the deafblind, gathered at Eikholt on 6 and 7 June and made use of both the course building and the outdoor areas in theory, practice and collegial discussions.
Celebrating an extra grant of NOK 10 million
Chairman Trond Østgaard celebrated the news with cake and fresh Norwegian strawberries provided by the kitchen staff.
National Interpreter Conference in Haptic Communication
Haptic communication is constantly evolving and there are now many more users of this system. Both those who receive signals are more numerous, as are those who execute them.
Communication with all senses
A course that combines training in different and alternative ways of communicating with activities where the communication is tried out in practice with time and space for discussions between interpreter users, instructors and interpreters. Read more about the recent course here.