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Targeted rehabilitation with audiovisual training
For many people with hearing loss, conversations in noise are a daily challenge. A new project is now helping to develop a training programme. The aim is to make it easier for people with hearing loss to understand speech.
Are mobility programmes in hearing aids useful outdoors?
Is a mobility programme in hearing aids worth a try? Audiographer Anne-May Førland has researched this in her master's project. You can read more about this exciting project and the results here:
User involvement in the development of new technology
This is an exciting project about user participation from people with deafblindness in the development of new technology. The project lasted from 2023 to 2025. In this project, all project staff were involved and it represents a new way of collaborating in all phases of the project.
Architecture for all senses - inclusive for all
Phase 3 of the project "Architecture for all senses" is underway! In this phase, we focus on everyday life - for better or for worse - as experienced by our five experience consultants in their encounters with buildings and urban environments. The consultants are all users of Eikholt and, through their lives and varied expertise, have a very solid foundation for contributing insights that mean something in practice.
Eikholt Conference 2025, Orientation & Mobility
Research shows that orientation and mobility are topics that many people with combined visual and hearing impairments are concerned about, and it is a field that places great demands on those who work professionally in this area. The Eikholt conference has a tradition of presenting research, projects, technology and experiences from practical fields and everyday life. This was also the case this time.
PHARC - a rare syndrome
PHARC is a very rare syndrome caused by a mutation in the ABHD12 gene. PHARC involves combined visual and hearing impairment/deafblindness, polyneuropathy and cellular ataxia. Read more about what PHARC is, prevalence, treatment and support.
Optimising visual functions for people with RP
In a collaboration between Eikholt, the University of Southeast Norway (USN) and the RP Association in Norway, the project has aimed to map which measures are used to optimise the visual function of people with RP. During the project period, knowledge was developed by testing selected measures on participants with RP in various stages. The interventions targeted typical challenges associated with RP, including narrowed field of vision (tunnel vision), reduced vision in low light (night blindness), glare and light sensitivity. You can now read more about the project and watch video presentations about RP, the interventions and the experiences.
3D printed sign language alphabet - a learning resource for everyone
The idea of a 3D-printed sign language alphabet has been in the mind of Cathrine Timm Sundin, Senior Communications Advisor at Eikholt, for some time. She recognised a need for three-dimensional tactile models (3D models) of the various letters in the sign language alphabet for use in training. Models in different sizes and materials are printed and tested by visitors to Eikholt. Their feedback provides valuable input for developing good 3D models of the letters. The project is supported by the Dam Foundation and is a collaboration with the user organisation LSHDB.
Deafblindness, Nordic definition
The Nordic definition of deafblindness was adopted at the Nordic Leadership Forum in June 2024. You can read about the definition here.
Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) is described as experiencing recurrent or persistent simple or complex visual hallucinations without altered consciousness, cognitive or psychiatric disorders, sleep disturbances, but with damage to the eyes or the visual system in general (Niazi et al 2020).