New and exploring the deaf world

drphil said:
The original question was the "utility of learning ASL' within a context of deaf /blind students to someone who is never blind or deaf to understand "deaf culture"?
Are in fact the system used to "pass on info to the blind/deaf person on their hand" the same as the ASL used for only the "deaf"? What I ACTUALLY SAW at CHS, a few years ago clearly was very different than "ordinary signing". Is there a "different system" in the US-re: deaf/blind "Braille/ASL"?
In the text book I previously tried to learn ASL-Signing:How to speak with your Hands, Elaine Costello, Bantam Books New York 1983- there is NO mention of how "blind/deaf persons" use this book. A further check of the other 2 ASL books I have:
American Sign Language-David Stewart, Barrons 1998 and
Signing Made Easy-Butterworth & Flodin,Perigee/Penguin 1989-the same thing. No listing in the index: either Deaf/Blind or Blind/deaf.
Is there something "different" today in this area--Interesting academic/ linguistic question?

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An Overview of Tactile American Sign Language | Special Education Service Agency

There is a lot more information, but you can get an idea if you click this link and read.
 
Finally got the screen-very interesting. However at the present time I will not be trying to learn "tactile ASL" in the near future.

Implanted-Advanced Bionics-Harmony activated Aug/07
 
Fortunately I am NOT going blind. There is a computer problem in accessing SOME websites. All deaf,com is much easier than say Vampire Freaks.Com. My computer son shortly will check this out. Even my G mail site seem to take a "while" to "come to the screen".
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