I know blindness, and am familiar with helping adults
adjust to its onset later on in life. IT even took me
awhile to wrap my head around some of that, because I
was born this way, it's the only world I've known <grin>.
contrary to some people's fears, we found she didn't
become overly dependent on sign language. While it's
a useful skill to have in one's repertoire, the majority
of others don't understand it. The net result, in Nora's
case, was that it faded as her oral speech improved.... :-)
This is always good, but there are many who've bothered
to learn sign.
instructor doing. You're supposed to copy the hand signals in reverse....
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