For those interested in deafblindness, you may want to consider that it isn't completely as it would
seem either.
Such children are effectively alone if no one is touching them. Their concepts of the world depend upon what or whom they have had the opportunity to physically contact. If a child who is deaf-blind has some usable vision and/or hearing, as many do, her or his world will be enlarged. Many children called deaf-blind have enough vision to be able to move about in their environments, recognize familiar people, see sign language at close distances, and perhaps read large print. Others have sufficient hearing to recognize familiar sounds, understand some speech, or develop speech themselves. The range of sensory impairments included in the term "deaf-blindness" is great.
What is Deaf-Blindness
Then, of course, a good Wikilist of prominent Deafblind individuals (some I hold in higher esteem than others):
Francisco Goya (1746 – 1828): Spanish painter, deaf and blind by the time of his death.[4]
Victorine Morriseau (1789 – 1832): first deafblind person to be educated in Paris.
James Mitchell (1795 – 1869): congenitally deafblind son of Scottish minister.[5]
Sanzan Tani (1802 – 1867): Japanese teacher who became deaf in childhood and blind later in life, communicating with students by touch.
Hieronymus Lorm (1821 – 1902): inventor and novelist.
Laura Bridgman (1829 – 1889): first deafblind child to be successfully educated in the US.
Mary Bradley (? – 1866): first deafblind child to be successfully educated in the UK.
Joseph Hague: second deafblind child to be successfully educated in the UK.
Yvonne Pitrois (1880 – 1937): French biographer.
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968): author, activist, and lecturer, first deafblind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree and perhaps the person most popularly associated with the condition.
Alice Betteridge (1901 – 1966): first deafblind Australian to be educated. Teacher, traveller, writer.
Jack Clemo (1916 – 1994): British poet who became deafblind as an adult.
Richard Kenney (1924 – 1979): educator, lecturer, and poet; third deafblind person to graduate from an American university; president of the Hadley School for the Blind from 1975 to 1979.[6]
Robert Smithdas (1925 – ): first deafblind person in the US to receive a master's degree.
Mae Brown (1935 – 1973): Canada’s first deafblind university graduate; developed services for the deafblind at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). [7]
Vasile Adamescu (1944 – ): Romanian teacher and sculptor.
Theresa Poh Lin Chan (1945? – ): Singaporean teacher and writer.
Anindya (Bapin) Bhattacharyya (1970? - ): technology expert living in the US.