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Our Mission & Mandate

Mission Statement

The Canadian Deafblind Association – BC Chapter promotes the awareness and recognition of deafblindness and Intervention.

Mandate

We are a provincial organization that endeavours to:

  • Promote public awareness of deafblindness as a unique disability
  • Promote the philosophy of Intervention
  • Support the service-delivery component of the organization
  • Promote training in the areas of deafblindness and Intervention
  • Act as a resource in addressing the needs of individuals with deafblindness
  • Work with government and other agencies to initiate and promote the development of programs designed to provide Intervention for individuals with deafblindness
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Language Usage

“We recognize that there is a wide variety of preferences in regard to language usage. For the purposes of this website we are using terminology and spelling that is in alignment with our CDBA National ‘Adoption of Terminology’ (2010).”

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