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A Guide to Planning and Support for Individuals Who Are Deafblind

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Deafblind is a made up word, of recent vintage. Yet perfectly descriptive. It refers to people who are both deaf and blind. For most of us, it is difficult enough to imagine being afflicted with just one of those conditions. The text explains how such unfortunates are cared for.

Here, the discussion in the chapters often divides between subjects who have been born with these conditions and those who initially had sight or hearing. The former group is hard to educate and care for. Helen Keller is perhaps the best known such person; an inspiration to many. The biggest problem for these children is cognitive development. How to make them more aware of their surroundings, given what they have to use.

The book helps the layman by making you aware that there are indeed some caregivers who specialise in both types of patients. It also suggests that doctors and researchers have much yet to be done in the fields of sight and hearing restorations. The hope is that one day the methods described in the book will be seen as painfully limited (which is what they are right now) and obsolete.