Someone posted how can we communicate with a blind person as a joke but got me thinking how is it done with both blind and also a deaf.
Someone posted how can we communicate with a blind person as a joke but got me thinking how is it done with both blind and also a deaf.
That was my experience too.
For fast, real-time communication, an interpreter is required. It’s conceptually not that different than communicating with someone who’s deaf - you speak to them and their interpreter signs, then they sign and the interpreter speaks. The only difference is that they’re feeling signs rather than watching them.
But when the communication isn’t real-time, in-person, then many deaf-blind people can text and email using a refreshable braille display - so if you’re not in the same room you’d never know the text / email you’re getting is from someone who’s deafblind.