This report is the culmination of a review of services for dual sensory loss that took place between June and August 2007.
Each experience of dual sensory loss is complex and unique and although the numbers of people that took part in the review were small, their voices present an evocative picture of what it is like to live with a combined hearing loss and visual impairment.
This has been strongly backed by the perspectives of people working to support people with sensory impairment in Cumbria, and examples of what is happening in other areas of the UK.
The recommendations produced by this report are in line with Section 7 Guidance (Local Authority Social Services Act 1970), and aim to offer practical and strategic ways forward that can begin a process of developing services supporting the health and well-being of people living in Cumbria with a dual sensory loss.