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Phil Thorn

Phil Thorn

Life coach and deafblind advocate; Board Member of Deafblind Association New Zealand; meningitis survivor who founded Survivor to Thriver Coaching

Jun 22, 2026

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and create barriers
3:21
to essential services.
3:25
People who live with their blindness have high levels of social isolation.
3:35
and also experience mental health challenges and create barriers to essential services.
3:44
Despite the impacts of deafblindness, the condition has gone pretty much invisible with public policy and with healthcare planning.
3:58
This is due to not being consistent immediately And unfortunately, it's not recognized as a distinct disability.
4:12
In the census that took place in 2023, it was revealed, the findings were revealed in that census, that an estimated number of Kiwis live with geosensory impairments.
8:08
So what kind of study do you do and how do you cope with all the lectures and the assignments and stuff like that?

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