How do you treat a deaf and blind person?

Always be natural – never patronizing in your words and your actions. Address a person who is deaf-blind directly, not through someone else. Speak by forming the letters of the manual alphabet distinctly while he or she holds one hand lightly over yours to feel the position of your fingers.

How do you communicate with a blind and deaf person?

The deaf person and person who is blind can communicate with each other via the interpreter. The deaf person can use sign language and the interpreter can speak what has been said to the person who is blind and then translate anything spoken by the blind person into sign language for the deaf person.

How do people treat the blind?

Approach and Attitude

1. Always treat a blind person normally; speak first and introduce yourself.
2. Shake hands but only if a hand is offered.
3. It is also politeness to look at him/her during conversation and adopt the same level of position, e.g., sit or stand.

What is deaf and blindness?

Deaf-blindness is a combination of vision and hearing loss. Deaf-blindness encompasses a spectrum from mildly hard of hearing plus mildly visually impaired to totally deaf and blind or combinations of the severity of vision and hearing loss.

Can deaf people be blind?

A deafblind person won’t usually be totally deaf and totally blind, but both senses will be reduced enough to cause significant difficulties in everyday life. These problems can occur even if hearing loss and vision loss are mild, as the senses work together and one would usually help compensate for loss of the other.

What is deaf-blindness and how can you help?

Deaf-blindness comes in varying degrees and varying levels of communication needs. It can also result in many communication challenges. If you have someone in your life who is both deaf and blind, learning how to communicate with them shows your care and love for them.

How can I help my deaf child communicate?

Take any objects, such as choices of toys or food, to his hands, rather than taking his hands to the options. This will give him the opportunity to communicate in return. Remember that disabled people are people, too. In fact, many people who are both deaf and blind were not disabled at birth.

Can a deaf-blind person use sign language?

A deaf-blind person may not be profoundly deaf or completely blind. Many deaf-blind individuals can use sign language if they still have some vision. The most common way for a profoundly deaf-blind person to communicate is using tactile sign language, or the deaf-blind manual alphabet.

What is the best way to communicate with the blind?

Expressing Communication Use sign language if they do. Sign language comes in a variety of forms. Use tadoma if they do. Tadoma is a method of communicating with the blind and deaf whereby their hands are placed on the lips of the speaker. Wait at least five seconds before prompting for response.