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2. Intervener - Wikipedia

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   An intervener is a person who regularly works one-to-one with an individual who is deaf-blind. Deafblindness is a low incidence disability that describes individuals with varying degrees of vision and hearing losses. The combined loss often compromises the ability to access information in the environment or to communicate effectively.

3. Employment of autistic people - Wikipedia

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   Dawn Hendricks insists on the need for job placement, i.e. a job search targeted at the person's interests and strengths. [220] The passive medical focus on the deficits of people with autism often leads to blaming the individual for what he or she is, rather than adapting the environment and social organization to the disability. [149]

4. Haben Girma - Wikipedia

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   Haben Girma (born July 29, 1988) [1] [2] is an American disability rights advocate, and the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Early life and education

5. List of schools for the deaf - Wikipedia

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   In the United States multiple states operate specialized boarding and/or statewide schools for the deaf, along with the blind; in most states the two groups had separate statewide schools, though in some they are combined.

6. Helen Keller Services for the Blind - Wikipedia

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   During the 1960s, IHB founded the federally funded Anne Sullivan Macy Service for people who were deaf-blind. In 1967 the Helen Keller National Center was established by a unanimous act of Congress, and IHB was chosen to operate the program, which provided comprehensive rehabilitation training for people with a severe dual sensory loss or ...

7. Deafblindness - Wikipedia

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   To further her lifelong mission to help the deafblind community to expand its horizons and gain opportunities, the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults (also called the Helen Keller National Center or HKNC), with a residential training program in Sands Point, New York, was established in 1967 by an act of Congress.