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Born at Prince Albert, SK; deafness diagnosed at 15 months of age. Saskatechwan School for the Deaf, then took office work courses from St. Paul Technical Vocational Institute, St. Paul, MN. Worked as a data entry operator for various Canadian government agencies. Taking time out for a family 1979-1994, she returned to school, taking courses in emergency medicine and intervention counseling. Worked as an intervenor for the Canadian Deaf-Blind and Rubella Association.

Became deaf at age 4; entered the Glasgow Insitution for the Instruction of Deaf-Mutes at age 14, remaining until about age 19. Her whereabouts 1824-1834 are unknown, but in 1834 she became also blind from cataracts, and entered the Glasgow Blind Asylum, where she later died.

Graduated the American School for the Deaf. Taught deaf-blind students for several years, then became high school supervisor at the Alabama School for the Deaf and the Blind.

Hard of hearing, blind, and epileptic. Born at Overland Park, KS; recorded an album of contemporary Christian music when she was 10 years old; graduate of Wichita State University; graduate student in vocal music at the University of Arkansas.

Had been a student at the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb for 3 years when he became blind also; remained under tuition there.

Became blind at age 8, and deaf at age 9. First communicated through the glove alphabet, then later learned fingerspelling and Braille.

Blinded in childhood by accident and late-deafened at age 40 by another accident; resident of Louisville, KY; works include poems and children's books.

Deaf-blind condition (retinitis pigmentosis) was congenital, but did not show up until about age 12. Graduated from the Texas School for the Deaf in 1950. Despite his limited vision, was a finalist in camp tryouts for the Brooklyn Dodgers professional baseball team. Worked as a bookkeeper, then a clerk in a Fort Worth, TX bank for many years; depended on strong Christian beliefs to get through daily life.

Twin girls, apparently both born deaf at Oldswinford; they also had bad vision problems, partially corrected by glasses. They entered the Birmingham Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in 1887 and remained there at least into 1895. Their life after that is unknown.

An orphan admitted to the Manchester Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at age 14 in 1876. Nothing else is known of her.