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 ...

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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 ...

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DeafBlind poet Clark (How to Communicate) serves up passionate meditations on the DeafBlind Protactile movement—which he suggests is characterized by a focus on establishing greater autonomy for ...

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 ...

So, John, I can hear some sounds coming through your end, some clicking and clacking. Can you describe how Protactile works and how it's different from, say, American Sign Language or ASL, which many ...