The study plan provides course leaders and lecturers with a framework for planning national educational programmes, and it can be adapted to individual national study plans and local structures. The aim is to strengthen about deafblindness and support and maintain reflective and competent employees in the Nordic countries. The point of departure for the study plan is to provide staff with knowledge about deafblindness and what support is needed. The study plan encourages a learning in dialogue between the course leader and the participants to develop a common knowledge base that can be incorporated into the participants own practice.
All courses should be based on research and knowledge-based practice, and participants are responsible for being active, contributing their own experiences, and sharing knowledge within the courses. Whenever possible, it adds great value and quality to the course if a person living with deafblindness participates in the planning, training, and implementation of the course.
The Nordic Leadership Forum on deafblindness appointed a Nordic working group to revise the two Nordic study plans on congenital (2016) and acquired deafblindness (2017). The working group decided it was time to combine the two different study plans into one, as a key outcome from the Nordic Conference on Deafblindness in 2022 was that people with deafblindness urged the professional field to collaborate more and bridge the gap between the two groups. More unites, than divides, the two groups. And the professional field can draw inspiration from each other, bringing new perspectives to both existing and emerging knowledge.