The triplets live outside of Austin now. They are still super sweet, strong, and continue to learn. It just takes time and it’s extremely difficult to manage all of their care. They continue to be my inspiration.
Elizabeth Norris How are Emma and Zoe specifically? Have they learned spoken English? Are they at a school for the deaf or blind? They’re all 18 now, and I hope they continued to have interveners, at least in their younger years. I know it was very difficult to get interveners a decade ago. Do you think the family will ever participate in a docuspecial again?
I just saw a recent documentary made on them, in 2008 I believe, and was amazed by the progress they had made. One of them was even attending regular classes, although a few grade levels behind. I give so much credit to their mother and step father. So many others could not have handled this.
One of my students is deafblind. She loves Michael Jackson, arts and crafts, swimming, chatting, cooking, and Facebook. She hates chores, having to eat vegetables, and waiting. I don't really think of it as sad- she's a perfectly normal teenager in almost every regard. She sees beauty and experiences joy more often than sadness. If she weren't born deafblind, she wouldn't be the person she is today. I wouldn't change her a bit.
Wow, and I though just being Blind is hard. I struggle enough as it is, and yet hearing stories like this make me realize how good I have it. I couldn't imagine not being able to hear as well. It would be so lonely. I know that they can still live normal lives. I am learning too. With lots of help, they can do anything they wish.
Oh my gosh :( Triplets are hard work and not even if they're all deaf blinf !! I cannot imagine how difficult that must be! this lady and this guy who is not even their father but decided to take care of them wow they're truly amazing people!
Wow this is so sad, try closing your eyes and ears, its so hard to live in the world like that... so appreciated that your 'normal' and don't make fun of people with disability.
bsacagawea Yeah, he goofed. "24 weeks too soon" most definitely sounds like they should have had 24 more weeks gestation. As you said, 16 weeks gestation… *impossible.* I remember a local commercial, advertising a large hospital once described twins as "24 weeks premature." That was awkward to me; sounded like "born 24 weeks too early." However, I think that is an acceptable way to describe that prematurity happened and "here's the gestational age." However, what happened here at 0:36 sounds like a total flub to me.
Everybody has to thank to God for what he /she has. I saw many people who were so angry and sad because of being flu. And they tell it as if it is disaster. My triplets were born 3 months earlier and one of them was just operated for Cochlear Implant and certainly they have some difficulties , but we struggle with all and we have always great hopes for the future.
I saw a video about these girl just before I saw this one. They had already lost their hearing before they turned one. The girls came hinge one by one at 4, 5, and 6 months. A few Weeks after that two was pronounced completely blind. Shortly after that she discovered they were all deaf. So this was all very early in life before their first birthday. Hope that helps anyone who had questions. God bless
I agree - bad enough to have one child that is deafblind but all three! But with parents like these, they will be an inspiration to all of us who take sight and hearing for granted. I'm profoundly deaf and having problems now with one of my eyes - have had 2 major operations and that eye is for all purposes blind, but at least my good eye is enough, with spectacles, to drive. These three won't have that.
Being deaf doesn't mean that you hear nothing. Being blind doesn't mean that you see nothing. Many deaf people can hear. Many blind people can see. They just can't see or hear as well as people with "normal" ranges of hearing and eyesight. It is possible for a deaf blind person to see and hear.
They will always have stronger other senses. They can enjoy a rain by the fresh smell. Food probably tastes extra yummy to them. They can feel and enjoy life other ways.
Hopefully advances in science will someday make it possible for people like these kids to see and hear after all. Who knows, with the rate at which technological advances are being made, maybe a solution is closer than we think.
Jasmine Coreathers Yeah, services for the deaf-blind can be hard to find and hard to fund in the U.S. One girl had enough vision, and thus, the cochlear implants worked fast. She went to regular elementary school. The other two finally were able to get individual intervenors to teach them. There has been no update since age 9 though, and they're almost 17.
deaf-blind people live in the same world as hearing people, they may experience things differently but they life and go through and learn the same things as everyone else.
mrs.meehan's student was here. hahaha go NHS! anyways... this video was really intresting and it must be really hard not to deal with 1 but 3 deaf blind children. good luck with the three adorible girls :D
hey there! thanks for the comment on my page. Frankly, I have no idea how you do it. I am only total in my eyes. I do have a moderate amount of hearing loss on my left side but it hasn't impacted life much. about all I can say is DO NOT be over protective. let them experience everything.
Northwood High period 4 ASL Ms. Meehans class WAS HERE TOO!! hahah. this video was very interesting to see how the family deals with what has happened to them...
I commend the Courage of these parents who have been blessed thrice for a challenge.I am father of 11 years old Deaf-Blind immobile daughter with MR and a 16 year old Autistic son. My frustration is how to impart a mode of communication with my daughter who cannot learn ASL ?School system has failed to impart.Still striving.
oh yeah i watched a documentary on these guys in class. O_o really need to find it cause my teacher zoomed through it to show us the main points we needed to learn about DeafBlind. But i wanted to watch the whole thing
Well, since the kids were BORN deaf and blind, they'll never have a sense of having "lost" their sight or hearing. Being deaf and blind will be normal to them. It's the parents who will suffer more!
at one university they have completed the first sucessful retina transplant on a human, where they have taken the part of the eyes that can see from someone who donated their eyes to science and made a blind person see again and for the first time you should try to look into it maybe it will help.
I terribly disappointed the triplets don't sign ASL ..Look at Helen Keller who was Deaf and Blind become a well known woman and graduated from Radcliffe college (Harvard University). Sigh ... my heart goes out to the girls who don't sign and miss out a lot what's being said.
im a triplet and very thankful that me, my brother and sister dont have any problems. i was 8 weeks early. my sisters heart beat was too fast so they took us out. My sister was 900 grams. no joke. and i was 1 kilo. my brother was 1.5
How can some of you even suggest that they're not people and shouldn't live like that? You're basically saying Helen Keller shouldn't have existed. If you read her journal and her other writings, don't stand there and say she wasn't a person. How shallow and narrow-minded. As a blind person with a hearing loss, I take deep offense to such comments.
They will learn braille & tactile sign language. Being deaf/blind does not mean they are not smart....One of my good friends is deaf/blind and he teaches other d/b people to use computers.
@silvaaa70 r ASL teacher liked your comment on this vieo soooooo much that as one of are hw questions we have to write a response to... so besides on my paper i just wanted to tell you that your comment is pure poetry. and made me look at this video in a different way and now this video makes more sense. thank so much for your comment its the best one on this page :D
Haha, well thank you. I guess it is because I never learned "chat speak" since it doesn't work with screen readers all that well. I'm happy that you could understand me! English isn't my native language. :-)
There are many, many ways to perceive the world, not just through sight and sound. We have five senses, and they will learn, with much time and care, how to live in a world without two of them. Many, many things are possible with technology today, and the human heart has no end to its capacity to love. It's one thing to ask educated questions, another to presume falsely that we have the authority to determine who lives and who doesn't. They're not braindead, just deaf blind.
So they lost their hearing/sight by their 2nd birthday. That's still too young to have substantial memories of having normal vision and hearing for it to feel like a huge "loss". Do you think most people remember the details of their second birthday?
They are still this woman's children no matter how they are born. There are women who hate their normal children, so handicap doesn't affect love. When it comes to people everybody won't be perfect physically nor mentally. By the way most aborted babies are normal. Look at how God blessed this woman with a good husband who loves her & loves these girls as if they were his own. Maybe other people will look at this situation & not throw their kids away. God will make a way when you do what's right
The Washington State school for the blind has dealt with kids with coquiller in plants and total blindness they Eric K through 12 school and are awsome something to think about
@FantasyFanatic911 If you only knew. You would think half of the internet didn't know how to speak they type so awfully. Hahaha! Glad you're still able to enjoy the internet and youtube. Technology is a wonderful thing. It can only get better too! Looking forward to the future, who knows what it will bring? Cheers!
yeah if people shouldn't have kids, the human population would decrease and soon be extinct. Plus a lot of people want to have kids, its fate if your kids turn out to be special, like the deafblind triplets, it's a matter of how the parents accept it, and care for their kids. Oh come on, think before you comment.
@siaic well , all of us are here to have a home for our real life ; a home from heaven, full of goodness, love or a home from hell, full of evil, sadness. some of us are being examinated with bad conditions like illness , poverty and some others with good conditions like reachness , popularity , health. It is just like, a teachers exams his class ; Some students have difficult questions to answer but with high points and Some students have simple questions to answer but with low points.
I didn't say partially paralyzed I said from the neck down, & there are thousands upon thousands of people in that condition. These kids can't live normal lives & it's tragic, but when it comes to human beings it's very dangerous (for your own sake) to choose who lives or dies.On the other hand my opinion about an animal who is born blind & deaf or becomes blind & deaf (which is worse) should be put down. "The shedding of blood brings a curse." "e.Lets just agree to disagree, but do no harm
hey thats not really nice to talk about the triplets so i suggest if you dont nothing to say nice dont comment again thank u but that was rude and disrespectful.god doesnt like you commenting to them like that
The triplets live outside of Austin now. They are still super sweet, strong, and continue to learn. It just takes time and it’s extremely difficult to manage all of their care. They continue to be my inspiration.
Elizabeth Norris How are Emma and Zoe specifically? Have they learned spoken English? Are they at a school for the deaf or blind? They’re all 18 now, and I hope they continued to have interveners, at least in their younger years. I know it was very difficult to get interveners a decade ago.
Do you think the family will ever participate in a docuspecial again?
I know this family personally. George's mother and father are great grandparents, too. Liz and George are amazing.
And here I am, annoyed by the fact I'm deaf in one ear. This family is incredible
Dear god, give these parents the strength to continue, it's amazing what love can do
I just saw a recent documentary made on them, in 2008 I believe, and was amazed by the progress they had made. One of them was even attending regular classes, although a few grade levels behind.
I give so much credit to their mother and step father. So many others could not have handled this.
Where??
may u find strength in everyday. Bless your hearts. Such struggles. What an amazing guy and mom. Sending prayers for progress your way.
One of my students is deafblind. She loves Michael Jackson, arts and crafts, swimming, chatting, cooking, and Facebook. She hates chores, having to eat vegetables, and waiting. I don't really think of it as sad- she's a perfectly normal teenager in almost every regard. She sees beauty and experiences joy more often than sadness. If she weren't born deafblind, she wouldn't be the person she is today. I wouldn't change her a bit.
wow!
Wow, and I though just being Blind is hard. I struggle enough as it is, and yet hearing stories like this make me realize how good I have it. I couldn't imagine not being able to hear as well. It would be so lonely. I know that they can still live normal lives. I am learning too. With lots of help, they can do anything they wish.
does anyone know how the Dunn triplets are doing now???? I can't find any update anywhere.. I hope they are happy and doing well.
There’s one on TikTok
The mom just made a TikTok in tears saying they are now 24 and she needs help😢
Lovely children and very
loving parents.Inspirational video.
Oh my gosh :( Triplets are hard work and not even if they're all deaf blinf !! I cannot imagine how difficult that must be! this lady and this guy who is not even their father but decided to take care of them wow they're truly amazing people!
I think that those girls with the right help, will become outstanding citizens that will have alot of insight to offer to all of us. God bless them!
Wow this is so sad, try closing your eyes and ears, its so hard to live in the world like that...
so appreciated that your 'normal' and don't make fun of people with disability.
Did he say they arrived "24 weeks too soon" at 0:36? There's no way triplets survived having been born at 16 weeks gestation...
+bsacagawea i think he meant they were born at 24 weeks, and it was too soon, maybe?
bsacagawea Yeah, he goofed. "24 weeks too soon" most definitely sounds like they should have had 24 more weeks gestation. As you said, 16 weeks gestation… *impossible.*
I remember a local commercial, advertising a large hospital once described twins as "24 weeks premature." That was awkward to me; sounded like "born 24 weeks too early." However, I think that is an acceptable way to describe that prematurity happened and "here's the gestational age." However, what happened here at 0:36 sounds like a total flub to me.
I thought the same thing! Then I realized what mandy022787 and Katie Kat , had realized -- 24 weeks gestation. :)
I bet that was meant to be 'arriving 24 weeks - too soon' and the narrator didn't get briefed right so he didn't pause long enough.
bsacagawea 24 weeks is too soon. Geez
I am so fortunate and i pray for the world for this mom.
So true. Glad Dr. Phil's team became involved and helped. The mom is an absolute inspiration!
Everybody has to thank to God for what he /she has. I saw many people who were so angry and sad because of being flu. And they tell it as if it is disaster. My triplets were born 3 months earlier and one of them was just operated for Cochlear Implant and certainly they have some difficulties , but we struggle with all and we have always great hopes for the future.
I praise God that he happily preserved this family. I hope the triplets are still doing fine
I saw a video about these girl just before I saw this one. They had already lost their hearing before they turned one. The girls came hinge one by one at 4, 5, and 6 months. A few Weeks after that two was pronounced completely blind. Shortly after that she discovered they were all deaf. So this was all very early in life before their first birthday. Hope that helps anyone who had questions. God bless
Poor triplets, I can't imagine being deaf and blind at the same time :(
I agree - bad enough to have one child that is deafblind but all three! But with parents like these, they will be an inspiration to all of us who take sight and hearing for granted. I'm profoundly deaf and having problems now with one of my eyes - have had 2 major operations and that eye is for all purposes blind, but at least my good eye is enough, with spectacles, to drive. These three won't have that.
Being deaf doesn't mean that you hear nothing. Being blind doesn't mean that you see nothing. Many deaf people can hear. Many blind people can see. They just can't see or hear as well as people with "normal" ranges of hearing and eyesight. It is possible for a deaf blind person to see and hear.
They will always have stronger other senses. They can enjoy a rain by the fresh smell. Food probably tastes extra yummy to them. They can feel and enjoy life other ways.
Hopefully advances in science will someday make it possible for people like these kids to see and hear after all. Who knows, with the rate at which technological advances are being made, maybe a solution is closer than we think.
Looks to me you still find some nice guys, but like a needle in a hay stack! Very brave and good mother!
What happened to introducing or teaching tactile sign language, were there no schools for them , or services provided from the government?
Jasmine Coreathers Yeah, services for the deaf-blind can be hard to find and hard to fund in the U.S. One girl had enough vision, and thus, the cochlear implants worked fast. She went to regular elementary school. The other two finally were able to get individual intervenors to teach them.
There has been no update since age 9 though, and they're almost 17.
deaf-blind people live in the same world as hearing people, they may experience things differently but they life and go through and learn the same things as everyone else.
mrs.meehan's student was here. hahaha go NHS! anyways... this video was really intresting and it must be really hard not to deal with 1 but 3 deaf blind children. good luck with the three adorible girls :D
im a triplet and very thankful that me, my brother and sister dont have any problems.
this family would highly benefit from learning sign language. Tactile signing is a bridge of communication for deaf- blind people
THERE ARE MILLIONS OF DEAF BLIND PEOPLE GETTING ALONG GRANDLY IN THE WORLD. THEY NEED MORE EDUCATION.
I got the chills!
Miracle triplets is what I call them
hey there! thanks for the comment on my page. Frankly, I have no idea how you do it. I am only total in my eyes. I do have a moderate amount of hearing loss on my left side but it hasn't impacted life much. about all I can say is DO NOT be over protective. let them experience everything.
God bless. 💖🕊
Northwood High period 4 ASL Ms. Meehans class WAS HERE TOO!! hahah. this video was very interesting to see how the family deals with what has happened to them...
God bless them!
I commend the Courage of these parents who have been blessed thrice for a challenge.I am father of 11 years old Deaf-Blind immobile daughter with MR and a 16 year old Autistic son.
My frustration is how to impart a mode of communication with my daughter who cannot learn ASL ?School system has failed to impart.Still striving.
At the end, does it say..," Rek Rugen FUX! 26 News. "
Does he just empisizes the word FUX?
oh yeah i watched a documentary on these guys in class. O_o really need to find it cause my teacher zoomed through it to show us the main points we needed to learn about DeafBlind. But i wanted to watch the whole thing
19 thumbs downs should have their thumbs taken away
see if they can bare with that alone
this is so touching and sad but i wish the girls the best :(
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
Well, since the kids were BORN deaf and blind, they'll never have a sense of having "lost" their sight or hearing. Being deaf and blind will be normal to them. It's the parents who will suffer more!
at one university they have completed the first sucessful retina transplant on a human, where they have taken the part of the eyes that can see from someone who donated their eyes to science and made a blind person see again and for the first time you should try to look into it maybe it will help.
Deaf-blind and you can WATCH and LISTEN to videos.
Okay.
I terribly disappointed the triplets don't sign ASL ..Look at Helen Keller who was Deaf and Blind become a well known woman and graduated from Radcliffe college (Harvard University). Sigh ... my heart goes out to the girls who don't sign and miss out a lot what's being said.
wow. they live off aughton drive? i live two streets away from that street in spring. i feel so bad that i didn't know they lived there.
We actually have more than five senses. Even better?
im a triplet and very thankful that me, my brother and sister dont have any problems. i was 8 weeks early. my sisters heart beat was too fast so they took us out. My sister was 900 grams. no joke. and i was 1 kilo. my brother was 1.5
Well, we actually got close to 15 senses, but yhe, five big ones...
What the heck? Born 24 weeks too early? He must have meant AT 24 weeks because a baby can't survive at 16 weeks....
Excuse me, but during the first about 20 seconds, it explains how they lost their sight and sound early in life, but not born that way
Look up tactile signing, tracking and print on palm. These are communication methods used by the deaf-blind.
How can some of you even suggest that they're not people and shouldn't live like that? You're basically saying Helen Keller shouldn't have existed. If you read her journal and her other writings, don't stand there and say she wasn't a person. How shallow and narrow-minded.
As a blind person with a hearing loss, I take deep offense to such comments.
its heartbreaking my best wishes to the girls
They will learn braille & tactile sign language. Being deaf/blind does not mean they are not smart....One of my good friends is deaf/blind and he teaches other d/b people to use computers.
they wont miss it i think.. its useless to talk to someone who was born blind/deaf about sights and sounds.
@silvaaa70 r ASL teacher liked your comment on this vieo soooooo much that as one of are hw questions we have to write a response to... so besides on my paper i just wanted to tell you that your comment is pure poetry. and made me look at this video in a different way and now this video makes more sense. thank so much for your comment its the best one on this page :D
blind triplets
sign language
gj
Haha, well thank you. I guess it is because I never learned "chat speak" since it doesn't work with screen readers all that well. I'm happy that you could understand me! English isn't my native language. :-)
There are many, many ways to perceive the world, not just through sight and sound. We have five senses, and they will learn, with much time and care, how to live in a world without two of them.
Many, many things are possible with technology today, and the human heart has no end to its capacity to love.
It's one thing to ask educated questions, another to presume falsely that we have the authority to determine who lives and who doesn't. They're not braindead, just deaf blind.
How are they doing today??
Sounds like a fun night during spring break.
@VisionlessOne Hello there! I still need to know how to use VoiceOver. I use NVDA. Nice to see I'm not the only screen reader user on youtube. :-)
@ZanePrior they do do that kind of signing but they girls only know a small number of signs because it takes them months to learn new ones.
I am blind and autistic but it sounds like you are a good mother are doing a good job
So they lost their hearing/sight by their 2nd birthday. That's still too young to have substantial memories of having normal vision and hearing for it to feel like a huge "loss". Do you think most people remember the details of their second birthday?
They are still this woman's children no matter how they are born. There are women who hate their normal children, so handicap doesn't affect love. When it comes to people everybody won't be perfect physically nor mentally. By the way most aborted babies are normal. Look at how God blessed this woman with a good husband who loves her & loves these girls as if they were his own. Maybe other people will look at this situation & not throw their kids away. God will make a way when you do what's right
The Washington State school for the blind has dealt with kids with coquiller in plants and total blindness they Eric K through 12 school and are awsome something to think about
maby brail and sign launguage
What ever you did, you're doin it wrong.
It'll be cooler if they're deafblind and mute.
How can you say that, somebody had you & gave you life. Are you saying there should be no people on earth anymore?
i didn't even ask for an apology... awks
It's now 10/1/20. How are They now. Fine We Hope. Stay Well 🌟🐦
@FantasyFanatic911
If you only knew. You would think half of the internet didn't know how to speak they type so awfully. Hahaha! Glad you're still able to enjoy the internet and youtube. Technology is a wonderful thing. It can only get better too! Looking forward to the future, who knows what it will bring? Cheers!
But where is the triplets actual father? Where is his support!?
❤❤❤❤ 4:21
if they are blind why is one of the girls wearing glasses?
anna kern one has some vision therapy other two are completely blind
I know Sarah and her sisters are dope :3
How are they doing now?
Would it be possible for the triplets to have cochlear implant? That has helped many deaf people hear 👂
They have all had nucleus 24 cochlear implants done :)
Did you even watch the video!!??
how about we start capitalizing our "D's" in Deaf and save me alot of stress?
yeah if people shouldn't have kids, the human population would decrease and soon be extinct. Plus a lot of people want to have kids, its fate if your kids turn out to be special, like the deafblind triplets, it's a matter of how the parents accept it, and care for their kids. Oh come on, think before you comment.
No caption or subtitle. So I can't watch that video. Dang!
this is so sad.
That woman is proper fine
step-dad🖒
you should take your children to the deaf school to learn America Sign Langage (ASL). Your children will commmunication with you well.
Why didn't he just take him to the Vet and have him put to sleep? How do you go blind in one ear anyway, you must be playing games, smh.
Wheres will smith now?
@siaic well , all of us are here to have a home for our real life ; a home from heaven, full of goodness, love or a home from hell, full of evil, sadness. some of us are being examinated with bad conditions like illness , poverty and some others with good conditions like reachness , popularity , health. It is just like, a teachers exams his class ; Some students have difficult questions to answer but with high points and Some students have simple questions to answer but with low points.
@Taina15 how will they see the signs ... there blind too
@LiPgLoSsGaLz Two of the girls are totally blind so that means the one with the glasses can see some.
I didn't say partially paralyzed I said from the neck down, & there are thousands upon thousands of people in that condition. These kids can't live normal lives & it's tragic, but when it comes to human beings it's very dangerous (for your own sake) to choose who lives or dies.On the other hand my opinion about an animal who is born blind & deaf or becomes blind & deaf (which is worse) should be put down. "The shedding of blood brings a curse." "e.Lets just agree to disagree, but do no harm
hey thats not really nice to talk about the triplets so i suggest if you dont nothing to say nice dont comment again thank u but that was rude and disrespectful.god doesnt like you commenting to them like that
Maybe family should migrate to Canada. I understand that the health care system is very good.
Move on troll.
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@FantasyFanatic911 hello fellow screen reader user!I use a mac with VoiceOVer.