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- Touch is a reciprocal sense.
- Positive touch promotes health and well-being.
- People who relate to children who are deafblind need to become especially conscious of how they use touch.
- Tactile sensitivity can be the result of touch experiences or it can be related to neurological conditions and especially sensitive nervous systems.
- Children who are deafblind use their hands as tools, eyes, ears, and voice and also to relieve stress.
- Touch can be a basis for genuine conversations with a child who is deafblind.
- The gestures that children make to reach out and explore are actually the beginning of mobility.
- Children who are deafblind need access to others’ hands.
- Children who are deafblind usually need to learn language through touch or at least with touch as a strong support.
- Even children who have significant amounts of vision and hearing can greatly benefit from touch as a support to these senses and to help these children focus.
