Deaf-mute n. : A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.

Example:
What are some good websites about the disables (blind, deaf, mute, and cripples) during the Holocaust?

Taxonomy
deaf-mute, hearing, free encyclopedia, deaf and dumb, language, preferred term, main character, mute, identity, Summit History, deafness, 1854 novel, For Hearing People Only, search, inability, muteness, historically, socially acceptable.

Defination from the web:
Deaf-mute was a term historically used by hearing people to identify a person who was deaf and could not speak. ... The character Singer in the novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, written in 1940, is referred to as a deaf-mute multiple times. ...