•  Deaf-Blindness
  
  "A person living with this disability is an individual with a substantial degree of loss of both sight and hearing, the combination of which results in significant difficulties in accessing information and in pursuing educational, vocational, recreational and social goals.
  
  Deaf-blindness is a unique and separate disability from deafness or blindness. An individual with the combined losses of hearing and vision require specialized services including adapted communication methods."
  
  (As defined by the Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind)
  
  
•  Intervenor
  
  "An Intervenor provides a professional service, paid or voluntary, to facilitate the interaction of a person who is deaf-blind with other people and the environment. The Intervenor's job can include:
  
  
  1. providing access to information (auditory, visual, tactile) by means of a variety of communication methods
     
  2. teaching of daily living and life skills
  3. acting as a sighted guide
  4. reverse interpreting (to voice)
     
     
  These services are provided in the deaf-blind person's preferred method of communication, which can include tactile signing systems, braille, large print, communication boards, or any other method required."
  
  (As defined by the 1992 Provincial Government Task Force on Intervention Services in Ontario)
  
  
•  Intervenor Services
  
  "... is the provision of a professional service, paid or voluntary, to facilitate interaction of persons who are deaf-blind with other people, places and the environment."
  
  
  
  

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