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Learning the Deafblind Manual alphabet is the first step towards effective communication. Here are some steps you can take to get started:

  1. Understand the Basics: Familiarize yourself with the hand shapes and their
    corresponding letters.

  2. Practice Regularly: Consistent practice helps improve your fluency and speed.

  3. Use Online Resources: There are various online resources, including videos, tutorials, and guides, that can help you learn and practice

How to learn Deafblind Manual?

Who uses Deafblind Manual?

What is Deafblind Manual?

Welcome to our page dedicated to the Deafblind Manual! Here, you'll find everything you need to know about this form of communication, including who uses it, how you can learn it, and interactive resources to help you practice.

Deafblind Manual

Welcome to our page dedicated to the Deafblind Manual! Here, you'll find everything you need to know about this form of communication, including who uses it, how you can learn it, and interactive resources to help you practice.

What is Deafblind Manual?

Who uses Deafblind Manual?

Deafblind Manual alphabet is a tactile communication method primarily used by people who have sight and hearing loss. This method involves fingerspelling out words using specific hand shapes that correspond to the letters of the alphabet. The receiver feels these hand shapes on their hand enabling them to understand the communicated message.

Who uses Deafblind Manual?

Welcome to our page dedicated to the Deafblind Manual! Here, you'll find everything you need to know about this form of communication, including who uses it, how you can learn it, and interactive resources to help you practice.

Deafblind Manual is used by people who have both sight and hearing loss, making other forms of communication challenging. It is also utilized by family members, friends, and professionals who interact with deafblind people, providing them with a reliable way to communicate.

How to Learn Deafblind Manual?

Learning the Deafblind Manual alphabet is the first step towards effective communication. Here are some steps you can take to get started:

  1. Understand the Basics: Familiarize yourself with the hand shapes and their
    corresponding letters.

  2. Practice Regularly: Consistent practice helps improve your fluency and speed.

  3. Use Online Resources: There are various online resources, including videos, tutorials, and guides, that can help you learn and practice

Deafblind Manual Alphabet

Guidelines:

  • Arrange seating for the comfort of both the deafblind person and yourself

  • Tap back of the left hand

  • Remember the deafblind person may wish to receive manual on their right
    hand

  • Support the wrist of the deafblind person

  • Use appropriate pressure

  • Use correct pace and flow

  • Don't pause between letters

  • Use a slight pause between words

  • Check the deafblind person is following and understanding the reception

  • You need to be able to receive and understand deafblind manual onto your own hand from the deafblind person

  • Rubbing out gesture to indicate incorrect input

  • Trace numbers using the full width of the hand

  • Due to the closeness required, please be aware of personal hygiene, including regularl handwashing/use of hand sanitiser

  • Remove jewellery and keep nails trimmed

 

Make sure you give:

  • Your name first

  • Environmental information

  • Visual/Audio information

  • Spatial information

  • Incidental information

  • Communicate printed information

To help you learn, we've provided images of each hand shape along with its corresponding letter. Practice these regularly to build your proficiency.

AA.jpg
BB.jpg
CC.jpg
DD.jpg
EE.jpg
FF.jpg
GG.jpg
HH.jpg
II.jpg
JJ.jpg
KK.jpg
LL.jpg
MM.jpg
NN.jpg
OO.jpg
PP.jpg
QQ.jpg
RR.jpg
SS.jpg
TT.jpg
UU.jpg
VV.jpg
WW.jpg
XX.jpg
YY.jpg
ZZ.jpg

We hope this webpage helps you on your journey to learning and mastering Deafblind Manual. Whether you're learning for personal communication or professional purposes, your effort contributes to making communication accessible to all. Deafblind Scotland regularly runs weekly BSL Café's. Anyone who would like to learn deafblind manual, BSL and tactile BSL is welcome along to this informal space. More information here: Activities

Keep Practicing

We hope this webpage helps you on your journey to learning and mastering Deafblind Manual. Whether you're learning for personal communication or professional purposes, your effort contributes to making communication accessible to all.

 

Deafblind Scotland regularly runs weekly BSL Café's. Anyone who would like to learn deafblind manual, BSL and tactile BSL is welcome along to this informal space.

 

More information here: Activities

Why learn Deafblind manual?

Video Transcript

I go swimming regularly and as I said already I used touch to find my way there to the swimming pool and then when I’m at the swimming pool I ask the pool attendant to put out a rope you know I’ll swim up on either side of the pool because I use the wall I touch the wall and touch the rope to make sure that I’m staying in a straight line when I’m swimming. Theres a pool attendant and there’s quite a regular turnover of them and I’ve been regularly teaching them a little bit because I’m very aware of my own safety in the pool and I said t this young lad who just started as a pool attendant, lifeguard I said listen you know once I’m in the water I won’t hear you right so here’s some rules if you have to attract my attention touch me on the shoulder because you can actually just lean over cause I’m in either the first lane on the right or left hand side as you lean over just touch my shoulder and then I will just guess and say do you want me to get out and I taught him to say Yes which is a Y like that or no, just a wee no so we did that and he was absolutely enthralled he just couldn’t believe it, what was this deafblind manual alphabet? That’s just incredible!

So I was swimming away and I got out and I was fumbling and stumbling across the plastic flooring to out my hand on the railing when he came out and he took my hand and spelled Alex into it, and I went oh my goodness I’m impressed how did you do that? You just caught my attention so I just googled and I’ve just learned it in the last 2/3 minutes, and I said you know that you can now spell sentences out to me so if you touch my shoulder in the swimming pool you’ll actually be able a spell a sentence into my hand so you might say, oh listen is it okay if you get out now because the pool’s about to shut or whatever, you’ll be able to actually extend your explanation to me! I said that I’m so impressed and I thank you for that and he said that it’s absolutely super cool, he was quite a young guy but you know that took him two minutes. Two minutes to become an effective communicator for me at the swimming, two minutes that’s all it took.

Our chair Issy, who has Usher Syndrome, shares a story of how simple and easy it is to effectively communicate using Deafblind Manual, and how it makes a difference to her life. 

It can take just two minutes - learn the basics today!

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