the deafblind

The most famous deafblind person is Helen Keller. But there are many others. Laura Bridgman, for example. She also lost her sense of smell and taste. Imagine having touch as your only sense! And the only reason Helen Keller could speak ( Anne Sullivan didn't like the idea) was because another deaf blind person, a Norwegian girl by the name of Ragnhild Kaata. Helen heard about her through a teacher returned from visiting Norway. Here are a few others:

Prominent deafblind people

• Francisco Goya (1746 – 1828): Spanish painter, deaf and blind by the time of his death.^[4]
• Victorine Morriseau (1789 – 1832): first deafblind person to be educated in Paris.
• James Mitchell (1795 – 1869): congenitally deafblind son of Scottish minister.^[5]
• Sanzan Tani (1802 – 1867): Japanese teacher who became deaf in childhood and blind later in life, communicating with students by touch.
• Hieronymus Lorm (1821 – 1902): inventor and novelist.
• Laura Bridgman (1829 – 1889): first deafblind child to be successfully educated in the US.
• Mary Bradley (? – 1866): first deafblind child to be successfully educated in the UK.
• Joseph Hague: second deafblind child to be successfully educated in the UK.
• Yvonne Pitrois (1880 – 1937): French biographer.
• Helen Keller (1880 – 1968): author, activist, and lecturer, first deafblind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree.
• Alice Betteridge (1901 – 1966): first deafblind Australian to be educated. Teacher, traveller, writer.
• Jack Clemo (1916 – 1994): British poet who became deafblind as an adult.
• Richard Kinney (1924 – 1979): educator, lecturer, and poet; third deafblind person to graduate from an American university; president of the Hadley School for the Blind from 1975 to 1979.^[6]
• Robert Smithdas (1925 – ): first deafblind person in the US to receive a master's degree.
• Mae Brown (1935 – 1973): Canada’s first deafblind university graduate; developed services for the deafblind at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). ^[7]
• Theresa Poh Lin Chan (1945? – ): Singaporean teacher and writer.

It's interesting stuff! I suggest reading The World at Her Fingertips by Joan Dash. It's about Helen Keller.