Through touch and every other sense humans have. He was also not born Deaf Blind, but had gradual vision and hearing loss over the course of the illness.
L3 P3 nothing is impossible. Humans are the smartest mammals on earth. Think about all the crazy things that have been invented or the technology these days. Crazier things have happened. Awesome things have happened too.
Sara J you only mentioned how she looks and the fact that she has a service dog? I think they were actually asking how they learn how to navigate and communicate
Some of the comments are a little unsettling to me as a disabled person. Please bear in mind, everyone, that disabled people are not miracles, we're people. And disabilities are not always bad. There is a strong culture within d/Deaf/HoH, Blind/Low Vision, and Deaf-Blind communities. They are no worse off-- they are just unfortunate enough to live in a world built for the sighted and hearing. It is not the disability that makes a person disabled, but the environment that we have created that excludes people who do not have the same abilities as the "average". There is nothing WRONG about disabled people and there is nothing to sugarcoat about the daily pain, struggles, and stigma. It sucks. But please don't cry over people with disabilities. Please don't turn it into dreaded "inspiration porn"! *It's a little awkward.* Thank you for your open hearts and strong interest in the lives of your fellow human beings. :)
I agree with you...i am disabled too, but I am disabled by society and my genetic disorder. If we have the proper supports and access, we can do some stuff more worthy of praise than just getting up in the morning!
ReineDeLaSeine14 you're not disabled by the society dumbass. If you lived 10 thousands years ago you would've been dead before you hit puberty. Society is keeping you function. You're not entitled to more support just because you were born with a genetic disorder.
i cant walk because i have Cerebral palsy, i can talk and do everything else but walk, if someone jokes about me, i dont get all cry baby and get triggered, i dont fucking care. im not a miracle, im a fucking accident and if you disagree with me, fuck you. Also, i fucking hate furries.
It always fascinates me about how a born deaf and blind think. I mean he has not seen the world , not heard any descriptions about how the world actually is either. he cant know the language how we can learn. words have no pronounciation, letters have no shape or size. Think about it. He doesnot know the outside world even his own looks or sound. yet having same level of intellegence and consiousness like any other abled person. It is just his thoughts are un affected by the outworld. May be he questions.himself "who am I" yet having no so called languistic thought process in his mind. We may never know how they feel or think but i think.they hold much more probability of finding one's true nature.
He likely had vision for quite a while... possibly decades. This clip didn't say anything beyond Usher Type 1, but the retinitis pigmentosa that's part of the condition causes gradual vision loss. Although different for everyone, total blindness is often not for many years. Anyway, I definitely agree with the main point of your post. It is amazing how those born with profound hearing impairment and blindness can learn like anyone else with the right support and education. It is amazing how those who acquire both conditions at any point in life also adapt to new ways of learning and communication.
even if you were born blind you learn to read with braille, they may not have the same shape as letters we see on the page, but they have a shape. Just because someone is blind or deaf or even both at birth, does not mean they never know the world, they just experience it differently, but we all see the world in a different way anyway. They and other people who have many different disabilities; are no different to anyone else in the world and should not be seen that way.
It is AMAZING how you and others can communicate with someone who is completely deaf blind. I have always wondered how people do communicate like this when someone is deaf blind. It is FASCINATING!!!
beautiful, wonderful, and informative video! I'm studying and learning ASL in college right now, and it blows me away that he can tell what signs you are doing by just feeling your hand! thanks for sharing! If you don't mind me asking, ow do you know this man and how did you learn ASL?
As long as you can feel you can still “see” the world that you can touch And because he can feel he can still do sign language even though he absolutely can’t see what signs he is doing It’s amazing how even at the hardest situation you can still communicate with others
Kristy this was an amazingly done interview. It's a very important and curious topic, so I believe you should explore it further. You have just gained one more subscriber. Congratulations
@@gorgono1 Why must you blame Him for anything that happens to man? It was his decision to fall into mortality and illness, not Jesus lol. Literally the 'thanks Obama' meme but replacing Obama with Jesus. If anything happens to man during his lifetime, is because of the fall, and the corruption it gives him, and nothing else. And if you so dearly want your God to intervene, then it would negate man's freedom to be at the mercy of time and change. A freedom he himself requested. Know what you speak of afore just lashing out at someone who is blameless.
Some people in this thread clearly are unfamiliar with people like Helen Keller. Deaf-blind people can have enriching lives. Yes, to those of us are not deaf-blind, we just picture suddenly having neither. It’d be sheer terror. And certainly, it is not an easy life for anyone going through it, whether they gradually lose one or both senses, suddenly lose both, or are born with it. Their lives will be different to ours. But their brains make adjustments. They really do not feel “a silent, and nightmarish world.” That is an unfair depiction. Seriously, learn about some well known deaf-blind people from past and present. (Like Helen Keller-who didn’t even have half the technology we have now-or Haben Girma.) They can have a good life.
From comments it's lovely to see people cannot differentiate between those who have been born blind deaf and who later life became blind deaf.. it's a big difference and people most often get nervous and irrational when trying to imagine that.. most of the comments here are just like that
Besides how informative this video just by his side, his character is very strong and I wish I knew how to communicate with him one to one because i know we would have a blast.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I remember watching documentary on Helen Keller. I believe she used to touch the mouths of individuals and used sign language to communicate and understand what they were saying. I maybe wrong. Since, viewing this informative video, I have learned that old method of deafblind communication is no longer relevant. In addition, I did not know there were such amazing devices in technology to assist our fellow disabled brothers and sisters. That is wonderful. Please forgive my ignorance, I have been truly educated today. Thank you and may the good Lord continue to bless you.
People are so damn gullible. Watch at 1:02. As he's holding her right hand, all she does is lightly tap his hand 3 times. We are to believe three taps means, " What is your favorite technology?". Are you kidding me?
It's so stupid that all the bills in the U.S. have the same size and the same colour too. Who'd think of that? It makes so much sense to make the larger bills a little larger.
It depends partly if they have the right education and enough hours of assistance from people who know a lot about how deafblind kids learn. And I think people are still learning how deafblind kids learn best.
Stomatium Rei it's actually called "tactile sign language." and yeah, it is really cool! I'm just learning ASL myself and have been doing research on tactile signing too, it's definitely worth the looking-into. i find it to be very fascinating
Hello Kristy Smith, I would like to ask u a question, if u don't mind please answer me. Is all deaf blind people possible to speak like Helen Keller? Is Stephen possible to speak?
nice video first time i see a person speaking the blind deaf lenguage but is this lenguage the same in every country , i mean does it matters if i learn the "spanish one"
Hey Julia! Yes, sign language is different to every country, usually because it's influenced by culture. Sign language is different in the U.S. than it is in Britain or even Canada, even though hearing people use English in all those places. There is also International Sign which is understood universally by all those who know it.
Julià Morancho Marzal Sign languages are not different based on culture. They are different because they have developed in different places with no contact with other sign languages. Where there has been a need for a sign language (wherever there are deaf people, so in all cultures), a sign language has developed, from some signs to many signs and finally into a complete language just as complex as spoken languages. Just as many majority languages replace minority languages, the sign language used by a majority has become the standard :)
Through touch and every other sense humans have. He was also not born Deaf Blind, but had gradual vision and hearing loss over the course of the illness.
My concern when a man late 30 s from no accident but over slow period of time that sensory can not be reversed. He is sever blind, deaf, mute, part paralysed. and no sensation in fingers. He as all is typing by the support worker lipreading and just the right part of palm is alphabet. We have no communication in technology and he said the life what I was until now a man trapped in a tomb. What help he as asked for is not available but surely if a satellite millions a miles away send pictures back and report gravity and conditions. A man on earth as less that technology millions a miles away that will never come back. That man is me and supported by my lipreader. And yet no help can be given fed by liquidised food.
Damn, being blind and deaf must feel so lonely and complicated. But seriously, if someone is born blind and deaf how can they learn anything? Or are they automatically put in the disabled category, hence they'll never really know the definition of anything and what goes on around them...that's so sad hahah.
I love that he doesn't stop smiling.
It's awesome.
Joshua Camarena cuz he knows he's gonna get some after the interview
Shut it why m i not being phrased for smiling for a long time
chad Angeles
Yo you sound like you’re depressed and ur mad because u fake smiling everyday
it must be so strange living in complete silence and darkness
but atleast he can taste and smell, he’s also used to it so he knows what he’s doing, he’s probably never lonely but yeah it’s so strange
@@itzryonhi7082 but let's not forget he also has his sense of touch
How do you teach a deaf blind person anything? incredible
Through touch and every other sense humans have. He was also not born Deaf Blind, but had gradual vision and hearing loss over the course of the illness.
dennis neo how would you teach language? It is as "impossible" as this.
L3 P3 nothing is impossible. Humans are the smartest mammals on earth. Think about all the crazy things that have been invented or the technology these days. Crazier things have happened. Awesome things have happened too.
though touch ?
Sara J you only mentioned how she looks and the fact that she has a service dog? I think they were actually asking how they learn how to navigate and communicate
God bless him and his pure heart
God bless him with deaf/blindess. How benevolent of him.
@@lepetitchat123 maybe it's bad karma
Some of the comments are a little unsettling to me as a disabled person. Please bear in mind, everyone, that disabled people are not miracles, we're people. And disabilities are not always bad. There is a strong culture within d/Deaf/HoH, Blind/Low Vision, and Deaf-Blind communities. They are no worse off-- they are just unfortunate enough to live in a world built for the sighted and hearing. It is not the disability that makes a person disabled, but the environment that we have created that excludes people who do not have the same abilities as the "average". There is nothing WRONG about disabled people and there is nothing to sugarcoat about the daily pain, struggles, and stigma. It sucks. But please don't cry over people with disabilities. Please don't turn it into dreaded "inspiration porn"! *It's a little awkward.*
Thank you for your open hearts and strong interest in the lives of your fellow human beings. :)
I agree with you...i am disabled too, but I am disabled by society and my genetic disorder. If we have the proper supports and access, we can do some stuff more worthy of praise than just getting up in the morning!
*Inspiration porn* lol I agree with you too. * I´ve never read something like ”inspiration porn” *
ReineDeLaSeine14 you're not disabled by the society dumbass. If you lived 10 thousands years ago you would've been dead before you hit puberty. Society is keeping you function.
You're not entitled to more support just because you were born with a genetic disorder.
i cant walk because i have Cerebral palsy, i can talk and do everything else but walk, if someone jokes about me, i dont get all cry baby and get triggered, i dont fucking care. im not a miracle, im a fucking accident and if you disagree with me, fuck you. Also, i fucking hate furries.
It always fascinates me about how a born deaf and blind think. I mean he has not seen the world , not heard any descriptions about how the world actually is either. he cant know the language how we can learn. words have no pronounciation, letters have no shape or size. Think about it. He doesnot know the outside world even his own looks or sound. yet having same level of intellegence and consiousness like any other abled person. It is just his thoughts are un affected by the outworld. May be he questions.himself "who am I" yet having no so called languistic thought process in his mind. We may never know how they feel or think but i think.they hold much more probability of finding one's true nature.
He likely had vision for quite a while... possibly decades. This clip didn't say anything beyond Usher Type 1, but the retinitis pigmentosa that's part of the condition causes gradual vision loss. Although different for everyone, total blindness is often not for many years. Anyway, I definitely agree with the main point of your post. It is amazing how those born with profound hearing impairment and blindness can learn like anyone else with the right support and education. It is amazing how those who acquire both conditions at any point in life also adapt to new ways of learning and communication.
I see Kristy answered this in another post. Yes, Stephen lost his sight later in life.
If he has Usher syndrome then he wasn't born deafblind. Probably just deaf at first and gradually lost his eyesight over a long time.
even if you were born blind you learn to read with braille, they may not have the same shape as letters we see on the page, but they have a shape. Just because someone is blind or deaf or even both at birth, does not mean they never know the world, they just experience it differently, but we all see the world in a different way anyway. They and other people who have many different disabilities; are no different to anyone else in the world and should not be seen that way.
Imagine if he smoked DMT
Smart man. We take a lot of things for granted.
Agree. Education is for everybody. Thanks for uploading this video.
It is AMAZING how you and others can communicate with someone who is completely deaf blind. I have always wondered how people do communicate like this when someone is deaf blind. It is FASCINATING!!!
Read about Helen Keller.
I love you Stephen, keep smiling!
I feel so sorry for him.. but at least he can taste pizzas..
beautiful, wonderful, and informative video! I'm studying and learning ASL in college right now, and it blows me away that he can tell what signs you are doing by just feeling your hand! thanks for sharing! If you don't mind me asking, ow do you know this man and how did you learn ASL?
Hi Maddy, I'm studying sign language at Utah Valley University. I met Stephen through a mutual friend.
Thank you for this video! I bet you have a great sense of humor-- always smiling.
As long as you can feel you can still “see” the world that you can touch
And because he can feel he can still do sign language even though he absolutely can’t see what signs he is doing
It’s amazing how even at the hardest situation you can still communicate with others
Kristy this was an amazingly done interview. It's a very important and curious topic, so I believe you should explore it further. You have just gained one more subscriber. Congratulations
I find this so fascinating!
OMG it's amazing that technologies can make deaf-blind people lead a normal & common life just like us!
I can’t wait to see his reaction once he goes to heaven 💕
Stitch I can assure you that heaven exists
Stitch yep. You either believe me or not, I am telling you the truth
Shimmy Pig how you gone see his reaction if he dead and you alive
Kendall Lynette it’s possible
kate ryan I can’t wait to see you’re reaction when learing Heaven
ain’t real.
He's is amazing!
I want to learn touch sign language now
I'm crying while watching this.
same
What a fascinating video, very insightful.
Jesus christ, being deaf and blind
You’re basically staring at death, nothing around to hear
A silent, and nightmarish world
JM FIRELORD no that’s not how it is
JM FIRELORD it’s pretty much silent and pitch black without knowing anything at all.
yes, it is your beloved Jesus Christ that did that. Continue worshiping though
@@gorgono1 Why must you blame Him for anything that happens to man? It was his decision to fall into mortality and illness, not Jesus lol. Literally the 'thanks Obama' meme but replacing Obama with Jesus.
If anything happens to man during his lifetime, is because of the fall, and the corruption it gives him, and nothing else. And if you so dearly want your God to intervene, then it would negate man's freedom to be at the mercy of time and change. A freedom he himself requested. Know what you speak of afore just lashing out at someone who is blameless.
Some people in this thread clearly are unfamiliar with people like Helen Keller. Deaf-blind people can have enriching lives.
Yes, to those of us are not deaf-blind, we just picture suddenly having neither. It’d be sheer terror. And certainly, it is not an easy life for anyone going through it, whether they gradually lose one or both senses, suddenly lose both, or are born with it. Their lives will be different to ours. But their brains make adjustments. They really do not feel “a silent, and nightmarish world.” That is an unfair depiction.
Seriously, learn about some well known deaf-blind people from past and present. (Like Helen Keller-who didn’t even have half the technology we have now-or Haben Girma.) They can have a good life.
I'm in tears😭😭
From comments it's lovely to see people cannot differentiate between those who have been born blind deaf and who later life became blind deaf.. it's a big difference and people most often get nervous and irrational when trying to imagine that.. most of the comments here are just like that
Besides how informative this video just by his side, his character is very strong and I wish I knew how to communicate with him one to one because i know we would have a blast.
makes one count one’s blessings...
Poor man...
If someone was born completely deaf and blind able to communicate .. Then maybe one day we will be able to communicate with animal .
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I remember watching documentary on Helen Keller. I believe she used to touch the mouths of individuals and used sign language to communicate and understand what they were saying. I maybe wrong. Since, viewing this informative video, I have learned that old method of deafblind communication is no longer relevant. In addition, I did not know there were such amazing devices in technology to assist our fellow disabled brothers and sisters. That is wonderful. Please forgive my ignorance, I have been truly educated today. Thank you and may the good Lord continue to bless you.
Omg he is so smart ! ✨
That is the scatters thing ever. Right next to being burryd alive
Have any one heard of Hellen Keller?
Yes, shes also deaf blind
Makes me so sad.
Australian polymer notes are being released with braille on them so that the blinde can read what they are. It's a shame the US won't
This is very sad just imagine u cant see nothing or hear
People are so damn gullible. Watch at 1:02. As he's holding her right hand, all she does is lightly tap his hand 3 times. We are to believe three taps means, " What is your favorite technology?". Are you kidding me?
imagine if he was in a fight with someone, he would thing that all the punches and kicks are some kind of language bruh
Poor poor man...
In Canada we have braille on our money.
@Solveig St-Juste Switzerland has it aswell.
We are all born deaf and blind to God. That's horrible feeling.
It's so stupid that all the bills in the U.S. have the same size and the same colour too. Who'd think of that? It makes so much sense to make the larger bills a little larger.
how does that money clip thing work?
It scans the bill (like a cola machine), reads the denomination, and gives a braille print for him to read on his finger
Imagine being a deaf, blind, and mute person who has lost sense of smell, taste and touch.
can yall make the subtitles not yellow, or have a contrasting background next time cause geez it's rough to see as a Deafblind person myself
Kristen, I was told by a Deaf Blind person to use yellow subtitles to make it easier to read. Sorry, you can't read it.
I was sitting on the toilet when I wandered about this and CZcams provided me, but I sure feel bad for him!
Remarkable
I like this dude
People who are both deaf and blind should not be able to see them
If someone is deaf and blind from birth, can they learn anything?
It depends partly if they have the right education and enough hours of assistance from people who know a lot about how deafblind kids learn. And I think people are still learning how deafblind kids learn best.
you heard of Helen Keller? born blind and deaf and mute (!!!) learned to read and write and ride horses and do amazing things
youmeandi100 She could even speak. That absolutely baffles and amazes me
youmeandi100 Helen Keller was not born blind or deaf. She lost her sight and hearing at age 2 due to illness.
Don't worry they will be a new technology where you can see and hear again
Let's hope so! :(
This must be so hard it's like sleeping but you are awake
My signing isn't that great, is he using PSE or ASL to sign?
Also I've never seen contact signing before!!! So cool!!!
He is use ASL. Some of it is school but it is ASL.
You are deaf? I have a few questions.
Stomatium Rei it's actually called "tactile sign language." and yeah, it is really cool! I'm just learning ASL myself and have been doing research on tactile signing too, it's definitely worth the looking-into. i find it to be very fascinating
Ahhh thank you for the correction! I did find the proper term via a new ASL course I'm taking. How embarrassing D:
Hello Kristy Smith, I would like to ask u a question, if u don't mind please answer me. Is all deaf blind people possible to speak like Helen Keller? Is Stephen possible to speak?
Can they speak though, honestly Curious
nice video first time i see a person speaking the blind deaf lenguage but is this lenguage the same in every country , i mean does it matters if i learn the "spanish one"
Julià Morancho Marzal Sign language is different in different countries and he seems to be using normal sign language.
Hey Julia! Yes, sign language is different to every country, usually because it's influenced by culture. Sign language is different in the U.S. than it is in Britain or even Canada, even though hearing people use English in all those places. There is also International Sign which is understood universally by all those who know it.
Julià Morancho Marzal Sign languages are not different based on culture. They are different because they have developed in different places with no contact with other sign languages. Where there has been a need for a sign language (wherever there are deaf people, so in all cultures), a sign language has developed, from some signs to many signs and finally into a complete language just as complex as spoken languages. Just as many majority languages replace minority languages, the sign language used by a majority has become the standard :)
+Charlotte Opedal ...so it is based on culture. you contradicted yourself lmao
How did he learn it
Through touch and every other sense humans have. He was also not born Deaf Blind, but had gradual vision and hearing loss over the course of the illness.
what would he do if he had no hands?
I am so lucky i was born perfectly normal but i always ask to my self, what is it like to become deaf and blind ? I feel like i wanna die 😧
No hate But being dead and blind is no life! Soo big Respekt 4 them people.
How did he learn sign language
Poor man :(
OH NO IVE GONE DEAF
Like what do you all day if your blind and def.. just take me out.. I could do one or the other.. but literally no stimulation.. fuck that.
Would you rather be deaf or blind? I would be deaf thought of not being able to see anything is super scary to me
SticEfragFRENZY just pitch black
Gang signs 🤨🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
This video was very silent
RIP Headphone users.
MannyThatFox that comment is really mean but I feel bad for laughing
MannyThatFox now im deaf 0.0
MannyThatFox lmfao
Poor guy
YangSing1 don't pity him. He is fine.
💔💔
👇👋📆
How the fuck did he Learn to even communicate
Neville he slowly loose his hearing and sight
@@kuiemima6465 oh yeah, that makes sense
How does he know what amount to pay in the store?
He should really stop throwing gang signs.
This is bullsh*t. If he is blind and deaf how is he even be able to communicate?
1:00
Why he can’t speak,he is speechless or something?I thought he can’t see and he can’t hear but he can talk.Whatever
1 like = 1 prayer
My concern when a man late 30 s from no accident but over slow period of time that sensory can not be reversed. He is sever blind, deaf, mute, part paralysed. and no sensation in fingers. He as all is typing by the support worker lipreading and just the right part of palm is alphabet. We have no communication in technology and he said the life what I was until now a man trapped in a tomb. What help he as asked for is not available but surely if a satellite millions a miles away send pictures back and report gravity and conditions. A man on earth as less that technology millions a miles away that will never come back. That man is me and supported by my lipreader. And yet no help can be given fed by liquidised food.
May the father and son from heaven bless you.
Me: hello
Him: . . .
Me: hello
Him:
Him: .
Me: hello? Sir. . .
Him:
Damn, being blind and deaf must feel so lonely and complicated. But seriously, if someone is born blind and deaf how can they learn anything? Or are they automatically put in the disabled category, hence they'll never really know the definition of anything and what goes on around them...that's so sad hahah.
He has no idea what the world is like around him
can't hear shit
vip ticket to hell please
Julia, Sign Language is different in every language. Just as English, Spanish, French, etc are all different.
Kristy Smith unfortunately, they lost a big opportunity to create a lingua franca
Technovlog: Sign languages are as old as spoken languages, so there wasn't a good opportunity to create a lingua franca.