Born on 06.10.1941 in Čekonys, Anykščiai district.
In childhood he lost his sight due to complications of illness. In 1948-1960 he attended Kaunas boarding school for the blind, in 1960-1965 he studied at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Education), where he graduated in Lithuanian Studies. In 1974 he completed part-time studies in typhlopedagogy at the A. Gertsen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), and in 1978 he entered a part-time postgraduate course in Moscow.1965-1976 he taught in Kaunas. In 1976-1984 he worked as a senior research fellow in the research laboratory of special education at the Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute (now Šiauliai University). In 1984-1989 he worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the journal "Our Word" of the Lithuanian Society of the Blind, and in 1989-1992 he worked as a research associate in the special psychology research laboratory at Vilnius University.