Professional paper

DEAFBLINDNESS – A COMBINED IMPAIRMENT

Sanja Tarczay

Abstract

In Europe and in the world, deafblindness is recognised as a combined impairment, and deafblind persons have and realise certain legal rights and benefits. Insufficient knowledge and understanding of deafblindness in the Republic of Croatia still presents a problem that the professionals of different profiles are faced with in the identification, diagnosing and classification of deafblind persons. The paper emphasises the development of terminological guidelines from the area of deafblindness, the theoretical survey of the definition and classification of deafblindness with the purpose of overcoming the current deep-rooted prejudice and dilemmas related to deafblindness.

Keywords

deafblindness; the definition of deafblindness; the classification of deafblindness

Hrčak ID:

11497

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/11497

Publication date:

1.4.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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