Annika Maria Johannessen, (Cand. Ed.) has also a Master of Science in Communication and Congenital Deafblindness. She works as a senior advisor at Statped, Centre of Special Education in the Department of Deafblindness and Dual Visual and Hearing Impairment, situated in Bergen, Norway. She has about 25 years of clinical experience within the field of Special Education, and about 16 of those towards people with Deafblindness. Annika has a special interest in how to understand the bodily-tactile modalities impact on learning and development.