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Kathryn Zarate was born Deaf. She attended the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, a residential school near where she was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of 10, Kathryn was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome a congenital disease with a combination of hearing loss and mild to severe retinitis pigmentosa (tunnel vision, night blindness). Kathryn relocated to Florida where she worked as a bookkeeper in a private owned painting business for seven years. Then she had worked as a teacher aide for Deaf-Blind developmental disabled students at Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for three years. She then moved to Seattle to become part of a well-established Deaf-Blind community. In Seattle she worked in the assembly line at the Lighthouse for the Blind for four years.
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