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Deafblindness

Deafblindness is dual sensory impairment or loss, that is, the loss or damage of both eyesight and hearing. Deafblindness is also sometimes known as multi-sensory impairment. Many people with deafblindness still have a limited amount of sight, hearing or both, although some have a complete loss of both senses.

There are over 23,000 people with deafblindness in Britain, although this figure could be much higher if all the elderly people who have lost both sight and hearing are taken into account. Sense, the country’s leading organisation for deafblind people, estimate that there could be as many as 250,000 people with deafblindness in Britain today.

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