Pro-tactile ASL: A new language for the DeafBlind

amazing how much us humans are able to come up with to communicate.

This is just absolutely mind-boggling that they've created such an intricate way to communicate when two major senses are inaccessible to them. It's so cool to watch, But how do they learn what things like "I'm going to do ___" mean when they can't see or hear what they mean?

I can’t imagine how hard it is to learn sign without being able to see OR hear what the signs mean, I have all of my senses and I struggle

I just met a couple in Virginia like this. He is deaf and she is deaf and almost completely blind. Watching them communicate was amazing. 😎

These are some pretty dope handshakes

ngl I looked this up because I saw a video of a baby that's deafblind and I was curious to how they'd grow to communicate and learn in any way ...this is something so much more than I hoped for and is just humans being wonderful.

I can't imagine to live without sound and light, these people are strongest

Came by this video because of my racing 2am thoughts and questions and I am absolutely NOT disappointed. These individuals amaze me. They are coming up with a whole new way to perceive the world and build relationships. They are going to make the world so much brighter and (I hope) a little bit easier for the future deafblind generations to follow them by further evolving this language. The human mind amazes me sometimes. ESPECIALLY theirs! Us humans are social beings with a thirst for knowledge and relationships and nothing will stop us from gaining this! These guys prove that ❤️

this is so incredible

Great video! I'm legally blind. I'm not deaf or hard of hearing but I wanted to learn ASL and this is how I'm learning. It's so much better for me to do it this way then to try and guess the vissual sign.

This realy shows the adaptebility of menkind

I wonder how they managed to cope through this pandemic without being able to touch!? Crazy thought!

I honestly can't wrap my hesd around how deafblind people can relate their sign language to reality using only touch. For example deaf people can still have visual indicators of an object and the associated hand sign. Like a person can point at an object before making a hand sign to indicate one relates to the other. But using only touch, teaching someone that the object they just felt relates to the hand sign they felt immediately after must be incredibly difficult. Fascinating.

I couldn't imagine learning prepositions and adverbs like these extraordinary people

I’ve always wondered how deaf-blind people could interact with others, this is so interesting!

I work for an immigration office, and we have a client using that tecnique. I was fascinated with this new pro-tactile languaje.

I've always had admiration for various adaptations humans make to work around disabilities. I know a little ASL & have worked with kids in our deaf school & loved it!

i’m so stoned i’ve watched this video lol 3 times

Im already fluent in ASL, might as well learn how it works for DeafBlind people. But tbh I saw the tree thing, and my first thought was "SIGNING WITH FOUR HANDS"

Helen Keller didn't just use fingerspelling. She learned to speak through the Tadoma Method, where a hand (or both) is placed on the face to feel the vibrations of speech.