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  2. Tactile signing - Wikipedia

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    Tactile signing is a common means of communication used by people with deafblindness. It is based on a sign language or another system of manual communication . "Tactile signing" refers to the mode or medium, i.e. signing (using some form of signed language or code), using touch .

  3. Protactile - Wikipedia

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    Communication partners are encouraged to use the same communication method (as opposed to using signed or spoken language along with protactile) to ensure vision is not unduly privileged. [1] Sharing experience is a core principle of protactile, with tactile imagery evoking sensations in storytelling in the same way that facial expressions do ...

  4. Tangible symbol systems - Wikipedia

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    Tangible symbols are used as a means of communication for individuals who are unable to understand or communicate using abstract systems, such as speech or sign language. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Properties of tangible symbols include permanency, capacity to be manipulated by both the user and the communication partner, and an obvious relationship between ...

  5. Haptic communication - Wikipedia

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    Tactile signing is a common means of communication used by people with deafblindness. It is based on a sign language or another system of manual communication. "Tactile signing" refers to the mode or medium, i.e. signing (using some form of signed language or code), using touch.

  6. Symbolic communication - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic communication includes gestures, body language and facial expressions, as well as vocal moans that can indicate what an individual wants without having to speak. Research argues that about 55% of all communication stems from nonverbal language. [2] Symbolic communication ranges from sign language to braille to tactile communication skills.

  7. Tactile technology - Wikipedia

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    The word "tactile" means "related to the sense of touch" [1] or "that can be perceived by the touch; tangible". [2] Touch is incredibly important to human communication and learning, but increasingly, most of the content people interact with is purely visual. Tactile technology presents a way to use advances in technology and combined with touch.

  8. Signing Exact English - Wikipedia

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    SEE-II models much of its sign vocabulary from American Sign Language (ASL), but modifies the handshapes used in ASL in order to use the handshape of the first letter of the corresponding English word. [2] SEE-II is not considered a language itself like ASL; rather it is an invented system for a language—namely, for English. [3] [4]

  9. Modality (semiotics) - Wikipedia

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    Natural language is the primary modality, having many invariant properties across the auditory media as spoken language, the visual media as written language, the tactile media as Braille, and kinetic media as sign language. When meaning is conveyed by spoken language, it is converted into sound waves broadcast by the speaker and received by ...