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 ...

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 ...

Protactile is a new language that was created 15 years ago. It allows DeafBlind people to communicate directly, without having to rely on interpreters.

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 ...

John Lee Clark, a PhD student in Concordia’s Humanities Interdisciplinary program, is the recipient of the 2024 Miriam Aaron Roland Graduate Fellowship. A renowned DeafBlind poet and researcher, Clark ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...