Communication with people who are deafblind : assessment and intervention /
Marleen J. Janssen, Timothy S. Hartshorne, Walter Wittich.
Bok · Engelsk · 2026
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| Opplysninger | "Communication is essential to life for every human being. It is even a fundamental right captured in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a long time ago (1948, article 19). More recently it was confirmed in an extra declaration for people with disabilities (2006, article 9). Everyone has the right of access to information and communication. That does not mean that this fundamental right of access to communication works in our modern society for people who are deafblind. Traditionally communication can be considered as the greatest challenge for children and adults with deafblindness (Lenderink, 1907; Enerstvedt, 1996). They rely primarily on touch or the tactile-bodily modality (touch, propriocepsis, smell, and taste) to make themselves understood and to understand others. Touch is extremely important to compensate for auditory and visual disabilities. According to the founders of Protactile communication "A language of touch should be the basis" (Grande & Nuccio, 2018). Deafblind persons use many tactile communication forms like bodily gestures, tactile cues, muscle tension, signs, augmentative and alternative communication, braille, Tactile Sign Language, and Protactile communication (see also Section 6). What all people with deafblindness have in common is a serious and unique combination of sensory disabilities, which has a major impact on access to information, communication, social networks, as well as orientation and mobility (Ask Larsen & Damen, 2014, Rødbroe & Janssen, 2006, WFDB, 2023). Although it makes a difference whether the deafblindness occurred before language development (congenital deafblindness. CDB), after someone has already learned to speak or sign (acquired deafblindness), due to aging (age-related deafblindness), or because someone may have additional disabilities, such as an intellectual disability or multiple disabilities (Ask Larsen & Damen, 2014; see also Chapter 1), they all experience barriers to accessing and using communication"--
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| ISBN | 9780192887177
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