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Became deaf and blind at age 2. In 1887, entered The School Home for Deaf-Mutes at Skara, Sweden.

First identified deaf-blind person in British history. Born at Luton (Leighton), Yorkshire; became temporarily deaf and blind at age 11 from unknown causes. She recovered, but the duration of her affliction is not known, nor is there any record of the rest of her life.

Entered the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb in 1877.

Deaf-blind; has earned an M.A. (in history) and a Ph.D. (1991) from the University of Bombay (Mumbai).

Daughter of John Jones, surgeon-dentist to Queen Victoria; became deaf and blind by her second year of age. She lived with other family members all her life, and does not seem to have received any education. A memorial window to her was set up in St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, England, around 1915.

Deafened at age 8 and blinded at age 17. Home schooled, then graduated the Kansas School for the Deaf. Learned to play the piano by vibrations, and performed sign language music in churches; earned her living by making hair swatches.

Born hearing; grew up in Rochester, NY; lost partial vision in one eye and all vision in the other as a result of glaucoma beginning at age 21. B.A. from the University of Rochester, M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas. At age 35, Meniere's syndrome left him progressively very hard of hearing and with vertigo and tinnitus. Worked as a staff psychologist in a variety of locations.

Deaf-blind. Born with Leber's syndrome which left her deaf and blind by age 5. College student in computer science at the University of Delaware; worked on a 2-year National Science Foundation grant to develop a system for changing speech into text and then into Braille, or the reverse.

Orphan, deaf-blind either from birth or at an early age. Entered the Glasgow Blind Asylum at age 8, about 1898.

Born deaf and blind in his left eye at the Navajo Nation, Manuelito, NM. Entered the New Mexico School for the Deaf in 1954, aged 11. As the vision in his right eye also declined, he transferred to the Perkins School for the Blind 1956-1965. Attended a training center for the blind in New Mexico 1965-1972, learning to make brooms. 1973-1982, he worked at the Lighthouse for the Blind until that was shuttered. Back in New Mexico, he got jobs making string mops and tire mats, 1982 onward.