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Bookmark or Share- Deaf Blindness – Understanding and Supporting Learners with ...Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful hearing and little or no useful sight. Different degrees of vision loss and auditory loss occur within each individual, thus making the deafblind community unique with many types of deafblindness involved.
- Causes of Deafblindness | National Center on DeafblindnessMore than 70 causes (also known as etiologies) of deafblindness are identified in National Deaf-Blind Child Count. The most common are complications of prematurity and CHARGE syndrome, with each causing approximately 10% of cases.
- Overview on Deaf-Blindness | National Center on DeafblindnessThis factsheet provides an overview of deaf-blindness including common causes and specific challenges for both individuals and the people in their lives. Strategies for addressing these challenges are discussed. The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, #H326T230030.
- Deafblindness - SenseDeafblindness affects people of all ages, including children and young people. It is more common in older people, because our sight and hearing naturally worsen as we get older. There are more than 450,000 people who are deafblind in the UK.
- Deafblindness - HealthilyWhat is deafblindness? A person is deafblind if they have a combined sight and hearing impairment that causes difficulties with communication, access to information and mobility. These difficulties are caused by the way that sight loss and hearing loss affect each other even, if taken separately, each sensory impairment is mild.
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