Join author and disability rights advocate Rebecca Alexander as she meets the founders and educators of Protactile, a language based solely on touch. Historically, DeafBlind people have been limited ...

DeafBlind people are creating a new language called Protactile, based solely on touch. Join author and disability rights advocate Rebecca Alexander as she meets the founders and educators of ...

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When John Lee Clark was five years old, in 1983, he entered a small Deaf program within a public school near his home in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Clark was a dreamy kid who dressed in tucked-in button ...

This story hasn’t even started and already it’s wrong. Rather than forcing DeafBlind people to adapt to the seeing/hearing world, Protactile is based on their ability to understand through touch; that ...

A new study demonstrates that grammar is evident and widespread in a system of communication based on reciprocal, tactile interaction, thus reinforcing the notion that if one linguistic channel, such ...

A new study demonstrates that grammar is evident and widespread in a system of communication-based on reciprocal, tactile interaction, thus reinforcing the notion that if one linguistic channel, such ...