Our Aim: A society in which deafblind people have the permanent support and recognition necessary to be equal citizens.
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The value of offering deafblind awareness training to those who provide a public service hit the headlines recently. BBC Scotland's news website investigated the training Deafblind Scotland delivers to First Scotrail employees in a special report. The reporter, Thomas McGuigan, joined rail staff to learn something of what it means to be deafblind and was shocked by the impact of the exercises. He wrote: "It involved putting in ear plugs and wearing a blindfold so that I could not hear or see anything. I felt someone moving me to where I thought the door was. I felt totally disorientated and at the mercy of the person guiding me." The training has proven extremely successful and deafblind people say travelling by train is steadily becoming a more positive experience.
The patchy provision of the guide/communicator service across Scotland was subject of another article, which features one of Deafblind Scotland's Directors, Michael Anderson. Michael spoke of the shortage of Guide/Communicators and the need to address the current 'postcode lottery.'
