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There are an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 deafblind people living in Poland. Until 2019, the only nationwide organisation working for people with simultaneous visual and hearing impairment was the Association for the Welfare of the Deafblind (AWDb).

A guide-interpreter is the ‘ears and eyes’ of a deafblind person. He or she is a person who knows and can use alternative methods of communication, including the Lorm alphabet (tactile alphabet for deafblind people), dactylography...

There is no single definition of deafblindness. One can encounter medical or functional explanations of this term. According to the functional definition, developed by the Association for the Welfare of the Deafblind, a deafblind person is...