Deaf-blind triplets

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The Discovery Science channel did a show last Friday on three deaf-blind triplet girls. One of them can see partially. The rest are totally blind and deaf. Their mom and her boyfriend do a really good job with them, but they have trouble getting the girls the assistants services they need. Deaf-blind people use something called an intervener. It's a cross between a sign language interpreter and a personal care assistant. The goal of the intervener is to teach the girls everything from academics to personal care. The most famous intervener is Anne Sullivan who was Helen Keller's intervener. You can get intervening services in Canada, Europe, and Washington, D.C. at the Helen Keller National Center. You can't get intervener services in Texas where they live. At the present moment, they don't want to send the girls to boarding school in D.C. but more and more it's beginning to look like that's the only choice. I wouldn't like to do it if I were a parent either. But, I think, in the end I would have to decide that that was what was best for the kid. What would you do if these were your children?