What happens if your born blind and deaf?

A deafblind person won’t usually be totally deaf and totally blind, but both senses will be reduced enough to cause significant difficulties in everyday life. These problems can occur even if hearing loss and vision loss are mild, as the senses work together and one would usually help compensate for loss of the other.

How do people that are born deaf and blind live?

Deaf-blind people use many types of technology and equipment in their daily lives. Examples include mobility canes, closed circuit televisions (CCTV), Braille, Braille TTYs, TTYs with large print displays, and Braille or large print watches or clocks, to name only a few.

What is it like to be born deafblind?

Deafblindness from birth is rare, but not unheard of. Deafblind babies cry, drink milk, and need their diapers changed, like the rest of us. They learn to recognize people through touch, smell, and whatever residual sight and hearing they do have.

What is congenital deaf-blindness?

Congenital deaf-blindness: which means “born with” or “present from birth”. So, we use this term when someone is born with hearing and vision problem. This may happen when a baby contracts a disease or suffers an injury that results in loss of vision and hearing.

Can deaf-blind people be extraordinary in education?

For another, being deaf and blind doesn’t mean a person is necessarily mute. My understanding of deaf-blind education is not much, but that ‘total communication’ is used and that in some cases the person can communicate quite well and can learn academic subjects. I would not expect all deaf-blind from birth people to be ‘extraordinary.’

What causes a baby to be born deaf?

Some of the Non-genetic factors which cause a baby to be born deaf are: Premature birth. Low birth weight. Maternal infections or the mother suffering from infection when she was pregnant, such as German measles (rubella), herpes simplex virus or cytomegalovirus.