Deaf Blind Australia

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We aim to:

  • promote and represent the interests of deafblind people in Australia
  • encourage people who are deafblind to be self-determined in their own lives
  • serve as a national assembly for representation, advocacy, communication and exchange of information and advocate for people who are deafblind
  • work across all levels of government and all other relevant organisations to improve the lives of deafblind people throughout Australia and guide these organisations in meeting Australia’s obligations to the deafblind including those provided for in the United Nations Convention the rights of People with Disability.
  • be Australia’s foremost organisation for information on deafblindness
  • promote quality in community engagement for deafblind people and their families
  • encourage research into deafblindness and cures.

To help meet these objectives we:

  • coordinate and organise national deafblind engagement including conferences, publications and other media.

Our organisation supports:

Adolescents
Adults
Children
Culturally and linguistically diverse people
Infants
Parents/Legal Guardians
Seniors
Young Adults

Diagnoses and conditions:

Deafness and hearing loss
Other sensory/speech
Vision Impairment / Blindness

Service types our organisation supports:

Advocacy
Information Service

Our locations:

Adelaide - East - Hills
Adelaide - Inner City
Adelaide - North
Adelaide - South
Adelaide - West
Albury
Alice Springs
Bairnsdale
Ballarat
Ballina
Barossa Valley - Kangaroo Island
Bathurst
Bega
Bendigo
Blue Mountains
Brisbane - East
Brisbane - Inner City
Brisbane - North
Brisbane - South
Brisbane - West
Broken Hill
Burnie - North West
Cairns
Campbelltown
Canberra
Central Coast
Central Queensland
Coffs Harbour
Cooma
Darling Downs - Maranoa
Darwin
Dubbo
Geelong
Gold Coast
Goulburn
Gympie - Hinterland
Hobart
Hunter Valley
Ipswich
Kempsey
Launceston - North East
Lismore
Logan - Beaudesert
Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday
Maitland
Maryborough - Bundaberg
Melbourne - East
Melbourne - Inner City
Melbourne - North
Melbourne - South
Melbourne - West
Mildura
Moreton Bay
Mornington Peninsula
Muswellbrook
Newcastle
Nowra
Outback
Penrith
Port Augusta - North SA
Queanbeyan (NSW)
Rockhampton
Roma
Shepparton
South East SA
Sunshine Coast
Sydney - Blacktown
Sydney - Eastern Suburbs
Sydney - Hills District
Sydney - Inner City
Sydney - Inner West
Sydney - Liverpool
Sydney - North Shore
Sydney - Northern Beaches
Sydney - Parramatta
Sydney - Ryde
Sydney - South
Sydney - South West
Sydney - Sutherland Shire
Tamworth
Taree
Toowoomba
Townsville
Tweed Heads
Wagga Wagga
Wangaratta
Warragul
Warrnambool
Wide Bay
Windsor
Wollongong
Yorke Peninsula - Mid North