TITLE: Touch for Connection and Communication


[Visual Description]
An elementary school aged boy stands facing a wall that has objects, printed pages, with labels in braille on a timeline. His left hand reaches up to touch a card with a braille label. Above the timeline are the ABCs printed in dark, bold print on white paper, with images of American Sign Language hand shapes of the letters, printed braille letters in the upper left corner of the pages.


NARRATOR:
In the second module on touch we have
the opportunity to explore essential
techniques for supporting students to


[Visual Description]
A video of an adult kneeling in front of a young white boy. She is signing with his hands touching her hands and she is smiling at him.


NARRATOR:
use touch everyday trusting
relationships practice and observing
students responses are vital for
supporting the touch sense listen to
leaders who are exploring touch as a


[Visual Description]
A young deafblind boy touches the handle of an oven with an intervener standing behind him with her hands over his hands on the oven handle. There is a cookie sheet with un-baked cookie dough on it on top of the stove in front of them.


NARRATOR:
support for richer communication
empowerment and information in the world


[Visual Description]
a middle school aged boy wearing glasses signs to an adult female teacher with shoulder length brown hair. He signs to her and she watches him. She signs a response to him with his hands on her hands.


NARRATOR:
reflect upon touch as an integrated
sense that supports connection and
communication throughout a person's life
[Visual Description]
A young boy with white hair sits on an adult woman's lap at a water park with their hands touching each other and the water


NARRATOR:
touch is a frontier in the field of
deafblindness and leaders who are
deafblind and their families are helping
create new knowledge in the community


[Visual Description]
Two young boys sit in car seats in the car next to each other holding hands across the space between them.


NARRATOR:
reflect on what you learn through touch
share what you discover in your own
learning and connections through the
touch sense.