Watch our webinars

Between 2021 and 2025, project officers and invited guests of Deafblind Information Australia (DBIA) ran live webinars on topics in deafblindness as part of their grant funded work to increase awareness and knowledge of congenital deafblindness. Following is the collection of recordings and transcripts of these webinars. The recordings of the Question and Answer sessions which followed with the live audience are also included.

Using captions on YouTube videos

All DBIA webinars are captioned.

Some have Open Captions. The captions will display throughout the video and cannot be changed.

Others have Closed Captions. To turn these on, click the ‘CC’ button at the bottom of the video on the right hand side. You can change how you view the captions on YouTube to suit your needs.

Click and drag the caption bar to your preferred location on screen.

You can change settings such as:

• Font
• Text colour and size
• Background colour

Click on the ‘Settings’ button, which is to the right of the ‘CC’ button.

Select ‘Subtitles’ from the menu bar.

Then click ‘Options’ in the top right hand corner.

Quick links to webinars

Each link opens the relevant webpage in a new tab. If the webinar is on this page, the link will start with “Skip to …”

• Introduction: Deaf, deaf, Hard of Hearing
• Introduction: Vision impairment
• Introduction: Congenital deafblindness
• Congenital deafblindness: Overview of services and strategies
• Individual Communication Handbook
• Creative Arts Therapy and congenital deafblindness
• Orthoptics and congenital deafblindness
• Introducing signing and other communication to children with deafblindness and their families
• The basic need for less ambiguity and more opportunities for closure: Towards a better understanding of deafblindness
• From emerging gestures to tactile sign language
• Skip to Mealtimes for children with vision and hearing impairment: creative everyday eating and drinking routines
• Cerebral/Cortical Vision Impairment (CVI)
• Orientation and Mobility (O&M) and congenital deafblindness
• Life Space Model
• The spectrum of deafblindness
• Skip to Working as a team
• Skip to Deafblind Technology Project update
• Hand under hand
• Decision making in deafblind communication
• Skip to Deafblindness in children with complex disability
• High quality interactions
• Skip to Interoception: The eighth sense
• Experiences of deafblind people in medical and healthcare settings

Webinars not found elsewhere on our website

Mealtimes for children with vision and hearing impairment: Creating everyday eating and drinking routines

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Download Mealtimes for children with vision and hearing impairment: Creating everyday eating and drinking routines webinar transcript (Word docx, 260KB)

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