Unable to listen nor to see, but TO BE: the deaf-blind person in Peru

Authors

  • Hilda Figueroa Pozo Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33539/tematpsicol.2015.n11.813

Keywords:

deaf-blindness, deaf-blind person, communication, guide-interpreter

Abstract

This article intends to bring us closer to a topic barely addressed in the academic world in our country: deaf-blindness. This is the incapability of not listening nor seeing, involving both limitations and making this way a single disability, which requires, for its approach and care for their multiple needs, different ways to those used by people who are either deaf or blind. In this context, the guide-interpreter becomes an essential contact and communication link between the deaf-blind person and their surroundings.
Furthermore, we are convinced that the deepening of knowledge of the deaf-blind person should help us glimpse the great gifts of the human being needs to have to be present in the world, in spite of the serious limitations that may suffer from naturally or accidentally, showing us clearlyg this way their essential tendency to growth and self-development.
Our contribution finishes by narrating the experience of a non-deaf-nor-blind person about a deaf-blind person’s testimony of life.

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Author Biography

Hilda Figueroa Pozo, Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón

Doctora en Psicología por la Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón, UNIFÉ. Licenciada en Educación por la Facultad de Teología Pontificia y Civil de Lima, FTPCL. Estudios de especialización en audición, lenguaje y problemas de aprendizaje en el Centro Peruano de Audición, Lenguaje y Aprendizaje, CPAL- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP. Docente en la Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón, UNIFÉ. 

Published

2015-12-30

How to Cite

Figueroa Pozo, H. (2015). Unable to listen nor to see, but TO BE: the deaf-blind person in Peru. Temática Psicológica, 11(11), 17–25. https://doi.org/10.33539/tematpsicol.2015.n11.813