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Feeling Speech: The Tadoma Method

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Imagine a conversation without sound or sight, where words aren’t heard but are understood through the delicate dance of vibrations on your fingertips. This is the world of the Tadoma method, a remarkable tactile language system used by some deafblind individuals to perceive speech by touching a speaker’s face. This linguistic marvel showcases the incredible plasticity of the human brain and reveals that language is a fundamental pattern that can be mapped onto senses beyond just hearing.