Watson, however, is functionally blind and deaf, so it cannot answer audio or video Daily Doubles.
Watson, however, is functionally blind and deaf, so it cannot answer audio or video Daily Double.
Reality called again five years ago when doctors found a brain tumor, which left her partially blind and deaf.
The situation is particularly complex when the teaching-learning process involves learners with special needs such as blind and deaf learners.
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In addition, the programme has adapted the learning materials to cater for the particular needs of blind and deaf learners.
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In 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf most of her life, died in Westport, Connecticut.
Members of Congress who support the free market, accessibility for persons who are blind and deaf, and who believe that innovation is important for economic growth ought to consider co-sponsoring this timely, and effective, legislation that actually solves the problem.
However, owners of guide dogs for the blind and hearing dogs for the deaf will also be able to bring their animals in from New Zealand and Australia.
The gospels are replete with stories of Jesus healing the sick, raising the dead, making the lame walk, restoring sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf.
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Susan Goldin-Meadow, author of Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think, points out clinical studies that reveal that even deaf and blind infants gesture when they are making sounds.
Mr. Tuttle was among the masters who preferred their servants to be mute, deaf, and blind except when his convenience required the matter otherwise.
But the nations of the world, he said, turned a deaf ear and a blind eye.
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It is increasingly obvious that digital computers are very bright, but deaf, dumb and blind.
It was all working so well until that stupid mouse spilled the beans to the deaf, dumb and blind kid, who started buying gold.
After ten years of research, David Martin, a materials scientist at the University of Michigan, came up with a polymer that could help deaf people hear and blind people see.
That could mean websites will be required to include spoken descriptions of photos and text boxes for the blind, as well as captions and transcriptions of multimedia features for the deaf, said Jared Smith, associate director of WebAIM, a nonprofit group that trains and evaluates companies on Web accessibility.
"Instead of being deaf, dumb, and blind sitting on our desks or in our pockets, our computers might be able to observe what we do all day, understand what is important to us, and act as a virtual assistant who helps us on a second-by-second basis, " said Thad Starner, Associate Professor of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech University.
The director recently talked about working with a deaf actor, learning from a blind father and sharing the stage with a three-legged dog.
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If the disparate groups - such as deaf, blind, autistic, wheelchair users, mobility impaired and disfigured - do ever get together, it's usually to fight against issues including benefits cuts.
And, in any case, a tactile indicator helps deaf-blind people too.
The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act will make it easier for people who are deaf, blind or live with a visual impairment to do what many of us take for granted -- from navigating a TV or DVD menu to sending an email on a smart phone.
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