Celebrating the power of collaboration to bring about a more inclusive world for all.
“Alone, we can do so little. Together, we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
Deafblind Awareness Week celebrates and brings awareness to the diverse experience of people with deafblindness; it is a time to amplify stories, celebrate successes, and look to the future and the progress still to be made.
The week surrounds Helen Keller Day, celebrating 27th June as the birthday of activist and disability advocate Helen Keller, who was deafblind. Each year, we honour Keller by calling for awareness of deafblindness and for better commitment to inclusion and accessibility. In 2025, this day was officially recognised as International Day of Deafblindness by the United Nations.
Celebrating Our Global Deafblindness Resource Hub
Sense International is dedicated to ensuring that every person with deafblindness has the right to live, learn, and thrive in an inclusive society. By working together, we’re fighting to build a world where every opportunity is accessible for all.
Through our Global Deafblindness Resource Hub, we’re taking steps towards a more inclusive future by supporting people with deafblindness to connect with the world around them.
For Deafblind Awareness Week, we’re spotlighting the Hub as an incredible act of collaboration between our eight countries and our partners to create a space that goes beyond borders and reaches people with deafblindness across the world. It’s proof that by working together, we can do more. Learn more.
Hear from experts and disability advocates
To celebrate our theme of collaboration this Deafblind Awareness Week, we’ve invited our expert partners in the field of digital accessibility and disability inclusion to talk about their experiences of inclusion, and how collaboration can help us to create a better future for people with deafblindness. Find out more below.
