There is a school for the blind in Niamey, and three schools for the deaf in Niamey, Maradi and Zinder.

In a meeting with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, it was suggested that Finland, along with other Nordic countries and in cooperation with the World Federation of the Deaf, could lend financial, technical and technological support to assist other regions in the formulation and development of policies, programmes and services for deaf persons.

In terms of the inclusiveness of accessibility measures, 60.5 per cent indicated that information was accessible to blind and visually impaired persons 48.2 per cent to deaf blind persons and 54.4 per cent to deaf and hearing impaired persons.

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

(e) International conference of the World Federation of the Deaf, Our Rights Our Future , Helsinki, September 2005 presented a paper entitled Disability rights in the context of human rights instruments

To include the widest number of disabled persons' organizations, the help of such organizations as the World Blind Union, the World Federation of the Deaf, Inclusion International and the Center for International Rehabilitation was enlisted.

Alfred Mann is a brilliant physicist and innovator who's fascinated with bridging gaps in consciousness, whether to restore hearing to the deaf, vision to the blind or movement to the paralyzed.

International organizations of persons with disabilities such as Disabled Peoples' International, Inclusion International, the World Blind Union and the World Federation of the Deaf continued to strengthen their worldwide networks of national constituencies through a wide range of activities.

A characteristic example is the three large Centres operating in Athens, with branches in the rest of the country, which cover all sensory and kinetic disabilities (Centre for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind, National Foundation for the Deaf, National Foundation for the Rehabilitation of the Handicapped).

Australia has dedicated numerous public awareness raising activities to the commemoration of the International Year, such as the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, the 2005 Summer Deaflympics, sport leadership grants for women in rural and remote communities and the indigenous sport and recreation programme.

History Total Communication was originally developed by David Denton at the Maryland School for the Deaf in 1967, although the term total communication was first used by Roy Holcomb in California and was adopted by the Maryland school as the official name for their educational philosophy.