[5] To further her lifelong mission to help the deafblind community to expand its horizons and gain opportunities, the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults (also called the Helen Keller National Center or HKNC), with a residential training program in Sands Point, New York, was established in 1967 by an act of Congress.
[9] The diagnosis of deafblindness could be medically classified into specific types based on one's symptoms and causes.
For example, someone who grew up deaf and experienced vision loss later in life is likely to use a sign language (in a visually modified or tactile form).
[citation needed] The Bollywood film Black (2005) featured Rani Mukerji as a deafblind character named Michelle McNally.
[citation needed] Haben Girma, the first deafblind individual to graduate from Harvard Law School, released an autobiography entitled Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law (2019).
[20][21] The Persistence of Vision is a 1978 novella by John Varley describing the life of a blind-and-deaf community.