Someone posted how can we communicate with a blind person as a joke but got me thinking how is it done with both blind and also a deaf.
The DeafBlind community has used a variety of tactile systems to communicate in the past, but relatively recently, as more opportunities to communicate with each other have arisen, Protactile ASL is the language of choice for most people who identify as DeafBlind.
A famous example of a deaf/blind person is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller - this article contains some explanations about how she was able to learn to communicate with the world.
Look into Hellen Keller and how she learned. I’m not 100 percent brushed up on it but I do know it involved touch and feeling. The teacher would trace letters onto her hands and also use temperatures and textures to convey meaning to her.
The teacher would also out helen keller’s hand on the teacher’s face so helen could feel throat vibrations, the way the lips moved. Because of that, helen could actually talk (even though it sounded a little strange). You can youtube her speech
That is fucking interesting! Had no idea they got to that point.
There’s a pretty decent movie about it, based on the book she wrote iirc. It’s a little older, but still pretty good and her experience is definitely interesting, and speaks to the ingenuity of survival.
There’s a few different ways. If the person is mostly/fully deaf and blind, then communication is primarily through touch sign language interpreter (signing on the person’s hand) or a device that you type into that outputs braille for the deafblind person. Some deafblind people are not fully deaf or blind and can see sign language if the interpreter is very close to them.
I have actually dealt with a partial deaf blind student back in elementary school.
You can sign ASL into their hand so they can feel what you’re signing(normally individual letters). Or they hold your hands to feel the gesture/sign you’re are making.
They read braille as a just a blind person would.
But over all takes more effort to learn this way.
Imagining this right now lol
Lol sort of. That’s more like two people talking at the same time at each other. But more kicking
