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Communicating with Deaf - Blind People (1964)

1964 · Short film · 17 min

Synopsis

Demonstrates through actual conversation with six deaf-blind people the five most commonly used methods of communicating with deaf-blind individuals in the United States--printing in the palm, the alphabet glove, the one-hand manual alphabet, the tellatough and the vibration method.

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Running time
17 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · Party time! · Spuzz · 2015-11-30

Kind of a guilty feeling to make fun of this film, after all, how could you? But this is a highly interesting film about the many ways you could communicate with a deaf - blind person. I did like that one woman with the glove. Lots of personality on her.