India, June 13 -- There are 500,000 people in India living with deafblindness, children and adults who cannot hear, cannot see, and in many cases cannot communicate even basic needs like hunger, pain, or fear. Only 10% receive any form of organised support. The remaining 90% are not merely underserved. They are, in a meaningful sense, invisible.

But invisibility is not the same as absence. These children feel deeply. They experience anxiety, frustration, grief, and loneliness, yet are often unable to express these emotions in ways that schools, clinics, and rehabilitation centres are equipped to recognise. Where another child might cry or verbalise distress, a child with deafblindness communicates the same pain through behaviour: Repetit...