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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.
1TP1Reports
In 2017, Eikholt published three technical reports focusing on vision, hearing and work.
Useful guide for interacting with people with deafblindness
Interacting with people with deafblindness is a guide that NAV has created as an e-learning course for personnel in the surroundings of people with combined visual and hearing impairment/deafblindness.
Karine V. Hestholm at Deafblind International
During the ninth European conference "Touch of closeness" organised by Deafblind International (DbI), Karine V. Hestholm presented her story in front of hundreds of participants from all over the world. In this article written for Eikholt, she describes her message and shares her experience of contributing to DbI.