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Thank you so much to Jenny for her lovely video and kind words during Deafblind Awareness Week 2026.

Jenny was born profoundly Deaf and acquired a sight loss later on. She volunteers as one of our valued Deafblind Awareness Officers, helping with the Level 3 qualification in Visual Frame and Hands-on signing, and spreading deafblind awareness in her local community.

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My name is Jenny — my sign name is "Cheeky". I am blind because a football hit me in the face. I went to the hospital and they told me I am definitely blind.

DBE are fantastic, perfect, wow! I really enjoy it. The guides are really good, I'm so happy! They have helped me so much. Wow! We have a good laugh! Woohoo! Good, thank you!

Deafblind Enablement's first games night was a great success. There was food with a choice, ice creams, and lots of laughter over a range of sensory games at our Head Office. Service users came from Peterborough and Essex with their dedicated Communicator-Guide teams.

What people told us​

Loved the egg and spoon race!

The hotpot was wonderful, full of vegetables. Loved the newspaper game.

Loved winning the balls over the head game!

Loved the chilli, with veg. Always laughing with trained staff and my friends, who can involve me in the conversation and the games all of the time.

Loved it all!

Our service users asked us to repeat the evening every six weeks, because they enjoyed it so much.

This was great team work by our qualified Communicator-Guides, who gave full control and choice to our service users using a range of different communication methods. We are so proud of them all.

Debbie has recieved an excellent piece of feedback from the "Specialist Deafblind Assessment and Service Provision" course she delivered for Birmingham City University Rehabilitation School as a University Lecturer.

I would recommend that you ask Debbie as she is the absolute expert on all things Deafblind

The course delivered is a level 6 degree course and the highest qualification you can achieve in the field of Deafblindness.

In September 2015 we delivered a bespoke combination training in Specialist Assessments and Communicator-Guide support to 14 staff in Ealing Borough Council.

The delegates represented teams from across the LA including Social Workers for Adults, Young People, Older People, Disabilities, Rehabilitation and Sensory teams.

Feedback from the course included the view that ‘DBE training should be mandatory’ we couldn’t agree more!

Here they are with one of their certificates at the end of the six-day course- still smiling!

I enjoy the flexibility of working with Deafblind Enablement because it allows me to work but still enjoy leisure time doing the things I want to do. Being part of a small friendly team who are committed to enabling deafblind people gives me a good feeling as we are all working to the same end.

The quality of work provided by Deafblind Enablement is extremely professional but at the same time warm and caring. Want to join the team? It's easy. Just complete an application form, provide necessary qualifications and you're well on your way.

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DBE Communicator-Guide was very good at her job, very efficient, very helpful, nothing was too big or too small for her

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Section 7 Guidance was introduced to make sure that deafblind people can receive support and services they require from local authorities. Typically, this might consist of providing a communicator-guide service for a set number of hours per week which might be delivered under contract on specified days and times.

The following is taken from feedback received from Philip, deafblind himself, following Debbie James undertaking a Specialist Assessment and preparing a report which was commissioned by the Local Authority.