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Deafblindness Sordoceguera
Deafblindness is dual sensory impairment or loss, that is, the loss or damage of both eyesight and hearing. Sordoceguera es doble sensorial o pérdida, es decir, la pérdida o el daño de ambos la vista y al oído. Deafblindness is also sometimes known as multi-sensory impairment. Sordoceguera es a veces también conocida como multi-sensorial. Many people with deafblindness still have a limited amount of sight, hearing or both, although some have a complete loss of both senses. Muchas personas con sordoceguera siguen teniendo una cantidad limitada de vista, el oído o en ambos, aunque algunos tienen una pérdida total de ambos sentidos.
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. Hay más de 23000 personas con sordoceguera en Gran Bretaña, aunque esta cifra podría ser mucho mayor si todos los ancianos que han perdido a ambos la vista y el oído se tienen en cuenta. 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. Sentido, la countryâ € ™ s principal organización para las personas sordociegas, estiman que podría haber hasta 250000 personas con sordoceguera en Gran Bretaña el día de hoy.









