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 ...

In Protactile, we use the tactile and proprioceptive modality. So right now I'm seated with Hal, she and I are seated so that we're facing each other, but we're beside each other, so our thighs are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Lee Clark is a Deaf-Blind writer and a Protactile educator. His latest book is “How to Communicate: Poems.” Many people are eager to warn you of the body horrors caused by pregnancy, but no one ...

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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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 ...