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Carin, your questions are good ones. However, in our struggle to be politically correct, we often offend people more than we avoid doing so. They are Deaf (culturally deaf) deaf (what you would call hearing impared) or hard of hearing. Rarely do you find someone who prefers to be called anything oth...

Gina-
I can understand where you are coming from, but I thought I would let you know that many Deaf people are very offended as a culture when you sugges that they are disabled in any way. Changing your wording may help in your search.

I'm currently at KL and GRCC, but I will be transferring to Seattle Central and hopefully later on to Gallaudet for my Deaf Studies program.

I have not worked with blind children, but I have done a little bit of studying of the deaf-blind. The first question is, can the child hear? If so then communicating is slightly easier.

Either way I reccomend researching Helen Keller. Watching the movie "The Miracle Worker" is a good place to start.