TITLE: How would Being Deaf-Blind Affect Your Life?

[Visual Description]
Montage of multiple videos of brief perspectives from individuals on deaf-blindness

[ONSCREEN TEXT]
How would being deaf and blind affect your life?

FEMALE SPEAKER 1:
I'd be so frustrated, it's like I was trying to say out or...
like trying to know what is going around you

FEMALE SPEAKER 2:
I don't see how I'm gonna interact with my family
and I can't see them and I can't hear them.

FEMALE SPEAKER 3:
Like you couldn't play sports or hang out with your friends.

FEMALE SPEAKER 4:
My life will change like a hundred percent.

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Let's ask those who know individuals with deaf-blindness

GDEANNA PETERSON:
It's very complex
and every deaf-blind person, child,
is totally different
but deaf-blindness is huge,
it's huge.

GLORIA AUTHEMENET:
Deaf-blindness is seeing and hearing
in a different way.

DEANNA PETERSON:
There is so much inside
that you may not know is there
until you start
building a bond of trust
you're going to learn so much
about that child
some of these kids and adults
are the funniest people that I had ever met.

MATT SCHULTZ:
The students who, who...
I didn't know what to make of
when I first met them other than,
they seem interesting and I wanted to get to know them
but as I begun to learn about
calendar systems and communication systems, I realize that
the learning potential,
the ceiling for these students
was way higher than I, than I ever realized.
Oh my gosh, this stuff
works really well, really well,
and it's so much fun.

[ONSCREEN TEXT] 
"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace." -Helen Keller

[ONSCREEN END CREDITS WITH MUSIC]
Presented By: A Partnership of the Deaf-Blind Network 
Special thanks to: the families, children and service providers who make this project possible. 
The National Consortium of Deaf-Blindness. The Teaching Research Institute, Western Oregon University, Monmouth Oregon. 
The Illinois Advisory Board for Services to people who are Deaf-Blind. Philip J. Rock Center and School.Glen Ellyn, Illinois. 
Texas Deaf-Blind Project. Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Austin, Texas. 
Engage Creative: Lombard, IL. 
Filmontage Productions: Naperville, IL. 
TSBVI Studios: Austin, TX.
Director: Amy Lancaster. 
Featuring: Gloria Authemenet, Deanna Peterson, Matt Schultz.