Mental Health Awareness and Support to Children and Young Adults with Deafblindness and Their Families

Deafblindness combines varying degrees of vision and hearing impairment. Deafblind individuals face discrimination due to their inability to communicate and are denied human rights. Communication for deafblind individuals is through touch, which has been limited due to pandemic. This has raised barriers to access to information. A recent survey of 60 young deafblind adults resulted in 82% showing signs of depression and reflected signs of emotional abuse, physical abuse and high stress levels.