Deaf Blindness
Deaf Blindness
Most people assume that a deaf blind child is someone who is not able to hear or see. “Our country's special educational law defines deaf-blindness as the combination of the visual and hearing impairment” (“Deaf Blindness”). These two impairments make the person lose his or her communication skills, developmental and educational needs. The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness observes that the key feature of deaf-blindness is that the "combination of losses limits access to auditory and visual information" (“Deaf Blindness”). Through this research I was able to discover the origin of deaf blindness and explore about this disability.
“Laura Bridgaman was the first person who was an individual with deaf blindness who learned language” (“Deaf Blind Education: History”). She entered the England Asylum for the Blind in 1837 to start learning. Since that year in United States there were programs and services for students who are deaf blind. Education for the deaf blind became more important each year. Government started to provide more opportunities for the deaf blind children.(“Deaf Blind Education: History”). Most of the time when we say deaf blind the name that comes to our mind is “Helen Keller". She is the most known deaf blind person in the history. A school for the deaf blind was not always easy to build. Keller had to attend the school separately for deaf and blind. She attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind and the Wright-Humanson school for the deaf in New York, and The Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Massachusetts. Deaf Blind schools were started to establish after the publish of Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in 1885. This school was a boarding school supported by the state (“Deaf Blind Education”). In the 1960s Rubella Epidemic was taken place. Since the Epidemic; history and the education of deaf blind children have changed. The methods to help deaf blind were developed in Netherlands and it
Most people assume that a deaf blind child is someone who is not able to hear or see. “Our country's special educational law defines deaf-blindness as the combination of the visual and hearing impairment” (“Deaf Blindness”). These two impairments make the person lose his or her communication skills, developmental and educational needs. The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness observes that the key feature of deaf-blindness is that the "combination of losses limits access to auditory and visual information" (“Deaf Blindness”). Through this research I was able to discover the origin of deaf blindness and explore about this disability.
“Laura Bridgaman was the first person who was an individual with deaf blindness who learned language” (“Deaf Blind Education: History”). She entered the England Asylum for the Blind in 1837 to start learning. Since that year in United States there were programs and services for students who are deaf blind. Education for the deaf blind became more important each year. Government started to provide more opportunities for the deaf blind children.(“Deaf Blind Education: History”). Most of the time when we say deaf blind the name that comes to our mind is “Helen Keller". She is the most known deaf blind person in the history. A school for the deaf blind was not always easy to build. Keller had to attend the school separately for deaf and blind. She attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind and the Wright-Humanson school for the deaf in New York, and The Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Massachusetts. Deaf Blind schools were started to establish after the publish of Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in 1885. This school was a boarding school supported by the state (“Deaf Blind Education”). In the 1960s Rubella Epidemic was taken place. Since the Epidemic; history and the education of deaf blind children have changed. The methods to help deaf blind were developed in Netherlands and it