Accessibility and full participation

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• Accessibility and full participation
• in employment
• Anne Skov Hårdell
• and
• Dorte Eriksen
• The 7th ADBN Seminar, Bergen 2008

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Who are we?

• Dorte Eriksen, external instructor
• Anne Skov Hårdell, project team member
• Centre for Sign Language and Sign Supported
  Communication KC
• Susanne Niebe, project team member
• Jutta Fischer, project manager

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Supplementary Training Program in Interpreting
for Persons with acquired deafblindness
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Points to consider

• Personal assistance interpreters/guides
• The optimum communication
• Clarification of roles
• Dortes everyday life at KC

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Experiences

• A person with acquired deafblindness who enters
  into collaboration with a workplace, will
  automatically become a role model for other
  person with acquired deafblindness.
• People with acquired deafblindness can equally be
  a part of a professional setting, if aids and
  communicative conditions, including interpreting,
  are at their optimum.

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Experiences

• A deafblind colleague raises the credibility of
  academic theories, because of her experienced
  based knowledge in a professional setting.
• Professionals who work in the field of
  deafblindness will gain priceless experience and
  knowledge when collaborating close with a
  deafblind colleaque.