Objectives:
- Encourage and support Chapters that provide direct services to meet CDBA standards including but not limited to:
- Independent Living
- Lifelong Intervention
- Summer Intervention
- Encourage and support government and non-government agencies which provide services, such as educational, recreational, medical, and supported living
- Encourage and support Research proposals and projects:
- Medical: Rubella Prevention, Late onset medical symptoms, Cytomegalovirus (CMV), CHARGE Syndrome, Usher Syndrome, Acquired causes
- Etiology and Recording of Information Impact of Service Provision for more than 20 years
- Determine the Socio-Economic Impact of deafblindness on: The individual who is deafblind, Families Educational Systems, Communities, Employment, Extended Care facilities, Government participation
- Encourage and support the development of a national Coordination Centre to maintain and disperse information from a Data Bank, Registry, and to be a contact base for networking.