What are the challenges for someone who has visual & auditory disability?
“Most deaf people have a negative attitude towards blindness. For very understandable reasons deaf people universally feel the worst possible handicap that can befall a human being is blindness. Ironically, blind people feel the same way about deafness.” Vernon Vernon’s apt words embody the dilemma which affects those who are both deaf and blind. As the deaf person contemplates the future with RP he or she is already leaving the world of the deaf and entering the world of the blind, yet neither world wants to know him. Contrary to popular opinion, people with one disability are not predisposed to being sympathetic and understanding towards those with a different condition from their own. Deaf people are largely dependent on sight to aid communication, as the visual field narrows it becomes more difficult for the affected person to follow signs and lip read more than one person. Young adulthood is the time to be out and about pursuing sports and leisure activities and socialising with f
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