The social director about deafblind Jesper's move: "A move is always a bit stressful"

23-year-old Jesper Fredriksson has deafblindness, a severe psychiatric developmental disorder and ADHD.

Kumla municipality has decided to move him from Mo farm in Finspång, where all staff and other residents speak sign language, to his own service accommodation Stenebrunn, where he will only be able to speak sign language with his assistants.

- The basic idea is that we should have our Kumlingar at home.

It has been our intention to move him home anyway since Stenebrunn was completed in 2019, says Gabriella Prabin Mueller.

"A move is always a bit stressful"

The training of Jesper at Stenebrunn has begun.

His good husband describes how he drew that he did not want to go, and then cried on the way there.

- I think that a move is always a bit stressful, especially for people with disabilities, but we will do everything we can to make it as good and safe as it only goes for Jesper.

In the clip, Gabriella Prabin Mueller answers the question of what happens to Jesper's social life, when he is moved from sign language friends and staff to a hearing environment where only his assistants know sign language.