Deaf Blind Children Can Be Taught To Enjoy Dance

Executive summary about Blind Children by Dzagbe Cudjoe

Deaf blind children can be taught to enjoy dance and movement. The dance teacher can safely assume that all the participants will have tension in the eye area, hands, neck, shoulders and legs.

The Deaf Blind Manual Alphabet (also known as finger spelling) is a system where words are spelled out onto the deafblind person’s hand. Each letter has a particular sign or place on the hand.

Visual Frame Signing is where signing is done within the person’s remaining field of vision.

Tadoma is a rare method of communication for the deaf blind. The person using Tadoma places their hands on the speaker’s lips or throat to feel the vibrations.

If appropriate the teacher can place the deaf blind person’s body and/or limbs in the correct position and help him or her to perform the movement.

Movements have to be planned to assist the deaf blind child or adult to understand the size of movements, their direction, level, shape, force and tempo.

Dance for the deaf blind extends and deepens their interaction with other

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people, their sense of place and encourages socializing and self-confidence.

Important Women in Kentucky History

Executive summary about Blind Children by Pauline Go

Sophia Kindrick Alcorn was a remarkable woman from Kentucky who spent most of her adult life teaching blind and deaf children. The speech development therapy uses something called the Alcorn symbols which were mainly designed by her to communicate. She taught the deaf and blind children to feel the vibrations from the teacher and learn to speak.

Mary Breckinridge, who was from Kentucky too, was a nurse who made a difference to several lives in the country. She took a deep interest in nursing after losing her husband and two children.

Anna Mac Clarke was an African American woman from Kentucky who was the first of her league to lead an army with white people. She joined the Women’s Auxiliary Corps and helped to fight the segregation in Douglas Army Air field.

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