"I work with children who are deafblind. The term deafblind immediately leads one to think total blindness and profound deafness, but in reality only a very small number of deafblind individuals have a total vision and hearing loss. Most of my students have a vision impairment combined with a hearing loss. This can mean low vision with profound hearing impairment or total blindness with mild to moderate hearing loss. Language acquisition and communication are great challenges because the deafblind individual experiences the world in such a different way from someone with good hearing and vision."