High Touch and Low Incidence - What I have learned from the Deafblind Census

Jim Durkel from Texas writes about access and support for children who are deaf-blind.


In a conversation I had with Jay Gense, director of the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB), he estimated the incidence of deafblindness for children and youth birth to 22 years old in the United States is around .01%.
The incidence in Texas is slightly higher at about .017%.  This means that out of the 4 million plus students in public education in Texas, around 750 are identified as having both hearing and vision problems.  More