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 ...

But in the last 15 years, a new language was born right here in the Pacific Northwest. It’s called Protactile, and it was created by a group of DeafBlind people who prioritize touch. One of the people ...

Instead, we in Protactile use tactile backchanneling cues, so all of my emotions in terms of how I am receiving a person's message is also communicated as I'm receiving it. So contact space is immense ...

Thanks to Rhonda Voight-Campbell for sharing this radio interview that Dave Miller from Oregon Public Broadcasting conducted with Jelica Nuccio about Protactile language. A short video captures clips ...

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 ...

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