It is almost impossible to keep up to-date. This can lead to the use of old signs, out of date views, attitudes and clothes. Withdrawal Fully deafblind people who are deafblind manual users naturally put out their hand to get information. If they don t get it they eventually give up. There is little doubt the effects of deprivation of information are more severely felt by profoundly deaf people without speech.
Speech allows the deafblind person to ask questions more easily, express doubts and seek help.
The required skills to understand similar information from a non-speaking person are much greater and therefore rarer in the population. Improve Training Deafblind manual skills or sign language skills whilst very necessary are not enough. Bolted on deafblind manual skills are not enough. If British Sign Language interpreters wish to work with deafblind people they need to take it seriously and do the training, and understanding deprivation of information needs to be part of that training. We need to present opportunities for interpreters to learn the importance of assimilated information and knowledge, censorship and the ease with which we slip into it.