How Should I Talk to Deaf-Blind People?

Deafness blindness (blind deafness) refers to a condition in which a person's eyesight and hearing are completely lost (or visually impaired or hearing impaired). Deaf-blind patients have completely different pain experiences and experiences compared to those who are only deaf-mute or blind.

Deafness

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Deafness blindness (blind deafness) refers to a condition in which a person's eyesight and hearing are completely lost (or visually impaired or hearing impaired). Deaf-blind patients have completely different pain experiences and experiences compared to those who are only deaf-mute or blind.

nickname

Deafness

Visiting department

Deaf

Common locations

Eyes, ears

Common causes

Psychological, external factors

Common symptoms

Can't see, can't hear

People with deafness and blindness communicate with others in different ways, depending on their own circumstances, such as their age of illness, and their personal abilities and conditions.

For example, among the deaf and blind patients, if a person who is born deaf and blind is born blind, they will tend to use sign language, or other language forms based on visual visualization or tactile feeling. And if a person who is born blind is deaf, he or she will tend to use tactile language, whether speaking or writing.

Methods of communication include:

Use residual hearing (with hearing aids to speak) or residual vision (recognition with limited vision, writing in large characters, etc.).

Braille.

translation. Such as sign language translation or other communication aids.

communication tools. Such as Tellatouch (a touch typewriter), and the computerized version of Tellatouch TeleBraille (electronic Braille).

The combination of multiple senses has been helping the deaf and blind to improve their communication skills. These methods can be learned from young children with developmental delays (helping them with non-directed / pre-conscious communication) to people with learning disabilities and even elderly people with symptoms of dementia. Among these methods is Tacpac , a multi-sensory course developed in 1995. Through contact and music training, children with sensory impairments or developmental delays or other age groups can communicate.

There are more than 70 known causes of deafness. These 70 factors can be classified into two types, namely acquired formation and congenital formation.

The day after tomorrow:

For most people with double vision and hearing impairment, the pain is a lifetime. Their hearing or vision loss is caused by other diseases, accidents, and aging organs. According to statistics, about 4% of the population over the age of 60 in the UK suffers from both visual and hearing impairments.

Among the people who have acquired visual and hearing loss in the day after tomorrow, most of them can still use some limited vision, or hearing, or both.

Some people have congenital deafness and then experience acquired blindness, such as blindness caused by glaucoma, cataract, etc., while others are congenital blindness and acquired deafness.

Congenital formation:

Congenital deafness and blindness are two types of hearing loss at birth.

Congenital blindness may be due to

1 fetal infections, such as rubella;

2 gene / chromosome syndromes, such as Down syndrome;

3 Trauma to the baby during delivery

4 Maternal excessive drinking

5 Maternal substance abuse

In addition, some congenital conditions may not show deafness and blindness at birth, but symptoms in later life.

According to the report, the biggest cause of deafness in children in modern Western society is actually "unknown". In western history, pregnant women with rubella were once considered to be the main cause of deafness and blindness, but this situation is now rare due to the promotion of vaccination.

Asher syndrome is also considered to be the main cause of deafness and blindness. This genetic disorder can cause deafness or hearing impairment at birth, and then the patient gradually loses sight-usually in late childhood. Retinitis caused. Early symptoms include night blindness and peripheral vision loss. The data show that 3-6% of the British population suffers from congenital hearing loss or hearing impairment due to the Asher syndrome.

Francisco Goya (17461828): Spanish painter who suffered from blind deafness before his death.

Victorine Morriseau (17891832): The first deaf and blind person to be educated in Paris.

James Mitchell (17951869): born deaf and blind, his father was the Minister of Scotland.

Hieronymus Lorm (19th century): Moorish (now Czech), inventor, novelist.

Sanzan Tani (18021867): Japanese teacher. He was deaf in childhood and blind in his later years. Communicate with students through touch.

Laura Bridgman (18291889): The first blind deaf who successfully educated in the United States.

Mary Bradley (? 1866): The first blind deaf who successfully educated in the UK.

Joseph Hague Joseph Hague (? ?): The second blind deaf who successfully educated in the UK.

Julia Brace (18071884) American Eliza Cooter (18411860)

Robert Dewar (18601877)

Jay Lander (18711941): Finn.

Ragnhild K & aring; ta (18731947): The first Norwegian to receive education for the deaf.

Yvonne Pitrois (18801937): French biographer.

Helen Keller (18801968): Writer, activist, speaker.

Alice Betteridge (19011966): The first Australian to be educated. Teacher, traveller, writer.

Jack Clemo (19161994): English poet, deaf, circa 1936, blind in 1955.

Raimo Williams (19171945)

Robert Smithdas (1925): The first deaf blind person in the United States to earn a master's degree.

Georgia Griffith (circa 1930)

John J. Boyer (1936)

Richard Kinney (1923-): Educator, speaker, poet. From 1975 to 1979, he was the principal of the Hydley School for the Blind.

Danny Delcambre (1959-)

Theresa Poh Lin Chan Theresa Chen (1944-): Singaporean

Sillian Nietrà (1989-1994): Granddaughter of South African woman writer Aletrishe Nietrà

Note: Putting deafness before blindness in translation is based on the following two points:

1. Deafblind in English vocabulary.

2. According to some insights, educating deaf children is more difficult than educating blind children. For deaf-blind children, the first issue that needs to be addressed is communication.