Tuesday, August 13, 2019
TOTAL COMMUNICATION
At times it is also hard to communicate with an illiterate person who is deaf. It is so hard especially when the two are of different age groups and are of different levels of education. In this case using the sign systems is hard and therefore it is advisable to use total communication.
Total communication is an approach that uses a variety of methods such as gestures, signs, drawings, facial expressions, body language, speech reading/lip reading, pantomime, braille, pointing, natural signs, bliss symbols, cued speech, eye contact, amplifications, pictograms, mimics e.t.c
Pantomime- A sequence of events described though the use of gestures, body language and facial expressions without speech and signs.
Cued speech- This is an oral method which uses a set of hand cues with speech. The hand cues are used near the mouth to overcome the problem of lip reading, where some sounds are identical or the impossible to see. When lip reading many words look alike on the lips they have the same lip shape and movement example; Tip and Dip
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