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- noun The state or quality of being deaf-blind.
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The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative WAI provides information related to web use by people with disabilities, including an overview of different impairments that may affect web accessibility and scenarios, such as a student with dyslexia using online curricula and a teenager with deaf-blindness seeking entertainment on the web.
Archive 2008-02-01 Chihiro Ikegami 2008
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The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative WAI provides information related to web use by people with disabilities, including an overview of different impairments that may affect web accessibility and scenarios, such as a student with dyslexia using online curricula and a teenager with deaf-blindness seeking entertainment on the web.
Web 2.0 Accessibility and Disability Christina Madden 2008
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"The Helen Keller with whom most people are familiar is a stereotypical sexless paragon who was able to overcome deaf-blindness and work tirelessly to promote charities and organizations associated with other blind and deaf-blind individuals," writes Sally Rosenthal in Ragged Edge.
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Dhale was awarded the CavinKare Ability Mastery Award for his extraordinary achievements in the field of deaf-blindness on February 13 in Chennai.
Analysis 2010
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Dhale was awarded the CavinKare Ability Mastery Award for his extraordinary achievements in the field of deaf-blindness on February 13 in Chennai.
Analysis 2010
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Dhale was awarded the CavinKare Ability Mastery Award for his extraordinary achievements in the field of deaf-blindness on February 13 in Chennai.
Analysis 2010
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Although I don't minimize the challenges of my deaf-blindness, I do believe that were I to lose all my hearing,
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Her first taste of deaf-blindness was when she walked into the room and nobody noticed.
unknown title 2009
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Her first taste of deaf-blindness was when she walked into the room and nobody noticed.
unknown title 2009
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Many deaf people, myself included, have little understanding of deaf-blindness.
About.com Deafness 2009
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