Talking Sense offers news, comment and features on the issues that matter to deafblind people, their families and the professionals who work with them.

View a selection of articles from recent editions of Talking Sense.

Children and families

• Focus on eating and drinking difficulties
• The challenges that families face
• Tackling sleep difficulties in children
• Special brothers and sisters
• A voice for fathers
• Coping with other people’s reactions to your disabled child
• Staying together
• Leaving home - a fresh new start

Education

• Transition: A new journey begins
• New curriculum from Victoria School's MSI Unit
• Curriculum: Art of learning
• Curriculum: Rhythm of learning
• Curriculum: Dramatic dialogue

Supporting adults with congenital deafblindness

• Eating well at home
• Focus on sexuality
• One-on-one intervention
• I choose supported housing
• Choosing a healthy life
• How can deafblind people be empowered to take part in community life?
• Supporting adults with challenging behaviour
• Protecting vulnerable adults from abuse
• How yoga can help people with cogential deafblindness
• Person centred planning

Acquired deafblindness

• How the Acquired Deafblindness Forum brings deafblind people together
• My life as a tightrope walker 
• Shelter from the storm
• Deafblind parents

Usher syndrome

• The transition period for young people with Usher
• Usher 2: How is it for you?
• Would a cochlear implant help me?

Older people

• Always change: The transitions experienced by an older woman with declining sight and hearing
• Older people's experience of deafblindness
• Elderly and invisible?
• Deafblind war veterans

Staffing issues

• Personal-professional relationships
• Should we be using touch more in our work with older people?
• The staff who cares

Mental health

• The healing touch
• Out of sight, out of mind: Mental health difficulties faced by deafblind people
• Norway's new ways with mental health
• Deafblindness and mental distress

Membership and self-help

• Focus on volunteers
• Come together right now