TITLE: Touch for Connecting and Learning


[The following video contains, video clips, photo montages, and voice overlay.]


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There is an adult sitting with a boy. The boy is wearing an oven mitt and they are making pizza. The adult sitting next to him is signing with him. 


Male Narrator:
Touch is one of our most important senses.
It begins to develop in our mothers' wombs and continues to develop throughout our lives.
A close-up video clip of an electronic device inside a soft casing. There are three hands are visible. One person’s hand is holding the device, while another person uses two hands to put a battery in the appropriate slot in the device.




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There is a blue zipper case. There is a hand putting batteries into the zipper case. 


Male Narrator:
There is little written that describes the how the touch sense develops or how it supports
learning and communication.
Two people stand with a shallow pan in front of them that contains wood mulch, they each touch the mulch in the pan.


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There is a picture of two people standing at a black table with bark chips on it 


Male Narrator:
For students who are deafblind, touch provides access to information, to people and to communication


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There is a picture of two people sitting next to each other hand in hand 


Male Narrator:
in a multitude of ways. A student named Jarvis and Matt his intervener sit outside together and sign tactually.


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There is a picture of two people. One person is touching a flower in a flower bed


Male Narrator:
In Touch for Connecting and Learning Part 1, we explore the foundation of touch, the
use of our hands for learning, and our own attitudes about the touch sense.


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A video clip of a student leaning on, pushing, and pulling a yellow tensioned rubber bungee while standing on the outside of a track lane. Both hands grasp the bungee and test their weight against the tension, a white cane folded and stuck into their jeans pocket.


Male Narrator:
In this first Touch module, we talk about the importance of "getting out of one's head
and into one's body" as a way to promote integrated learning with our students and ourselves.


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A student named Orion lays beside a communication partner who grasps a brass drum mallet- a large wooden handle with a fluffy pom-pom at the end. Next to him is a child-sized guitar laying on its side. Orion grasps a smaller version of the mallet and reaches out to follow the communication partner’s movements.


Male Narrator:
Come explore the importance of respectful touch and how to create environments and experiences that support the use of touch for connecting and learning.