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Sense International works in partnership to provide services and raise awareness of the needs of deafblind people and their families so they can connect, participate and contribute to their communities.

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 Ask Source  

SOURCE Database on Disability and Development: an international information resource centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on disability, development and health. SOURCE has a unique collection of over 25,000 resources.

Main website: http://www.asksource.info/

Sense International have recently worked with SOURCE to produce a key list focusing on deafblindness and multi-sensory impairment, which aims to raise awareness of deafblindness and provide links to key resources to support development practitioners, service providers, and parents/carers. http://asksource.ids.ac.uk/cf/keylists/keylist2.cfm?topic=dis&search=QL_DB09

BOND Disability and Development Group:

BOND is the UK membership body for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in international development of which Sense International is a member.  Sense International are actively involved in the BOND Disability and Development Group which exists to support international NGOs' and donors' work more effectively to include disabled people in all development work.  To find out more please follow this link: http://www.bond.org.uk/pages/disability-and-development-group.html  

Other useful websites:

  General

• Sense

http://www.sense.org.uk/

• The World Federation of the Deafblind

http://www.wfdb.org/

• Deafblind International

http://www.deafblindinternational.org/

• The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness

http://www.nationaldb.org/ISSelectedTopics.php

• Perkins International

http://www.perkins.org/international/

• Kentalis

http://www.kentalis.nl/

Asia

• Sense International India

http://www.senseintindia.org/htmls/res_library.html

Latin America (in Spanish/Portuguese)

• Latin America resource centre on deafblindness

http://www.sordoceguera.org/

• Peru Deafblindness Network blog

http://www.educared.pe/blogs/sordoceguera/

• Website of the Association of Deafblind People (SURCOE) in Colombia

http://www.conectandosentidos.org/ 

• Brazil organisation working with and for deafblind and multi-sensory impaired people

http://www.grupobrasil.org.br/

Europe

• European Deafblind Network

http://www.edbn.org/

• European Deafblind Union

http://www.edbu.org/

• A list of deafblind self-help groups.

http://www.bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft-taubblinden.de/?s=SHG

• Dutch Deafblind Foundation. 

http://www.doofblindenstichting.nl/index.html

• Danish Association of the Deafblind (in Danish and English)

http://www.fddb.dk/

• Finnish Deafblind Association (in Finnish and English)

http://www.kuurosokeat.fi/en/

• A centre in France providing information and resources on deafblindness (in French)

http://www.cresam.org/

• An Italian organisation providing information and support for deafblind and multisensory impaired people (in Italian and English)

http://www.legadelfilodoro.it/

• Norwegian Association of the Deafblind (in Norwegian)

http://home.online.no/~fndbred/emeny.htm

• Association of the Swedish Deafblind (in Swedish and English)

http://www.fsdb.org/

Middle East

• The Centre for Deafblind Persons in Israel (in Hebrew and English)

http://www.cdb.org.il/