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The range of sensory impairment included in the term 'deafblindness' is large.
Many deafblind children have enough vision to be able to move about in their environments, recognise familiar people, see sign language at close distances and perhaps read large print.
Others have sufficient hearing to recognise familiar sounds, understand some speech or develop speech themselves.
If a child is profoundly deaf and is also blind, or has significant vision impairment, his or her experience of the world extends only as far as the fingertips can reach.
Their concept of the world depends upon what or whom they have had physical contact with.
Such children are effectively alone if no-one is touching them.
RIDBC staff, including teachers and therapists, work closely with parents and other service providers to develop the skills of each individual child.