What type of communication would you class Braille as?
I'm a first year student nurse working on an essay regarding communication. I'm detailing types of communication, verbal, non verbal, and visual. However what type of communication would you class Braille as? I kinda know its non verbal but I was sort of limiting this to body language and things. Would I stick it in non verbal? I tried to stick it in visual… but then re-read my essay and was thinking, hmmm.. since blind people are visually impaired… not the best way to classify it!!
UK preferred please.
Emma
Thanks for your answer but would written not be considered visual communication???
tactile, since you read it via touch.
definitely non -verbal but that just clasifies it even further.
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February 6th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
It is considered written communication. I would say non-verbal.
Tactile is a feature of braille, but it is written. It has its own alphabet.
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February 6th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
tactile, since you read it via touch.
definitely non -verbal but that just clasifies it even further.
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February 6th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
As its a VERY specialised way of communicating, I don't think any of your 3 catagories cover it. I suggest you consider a 4th catagory for it (…and other forms of the written word).
In the event that you CAN'T stretch to a fourth ( and its DEFINATELY not visual or verbal) I guess you'd have to call it Non verbal ( which seems to cover literally everything !).
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February 6th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
tactile (Tactition) is defined as the sense of pressure perception. i wouldn't consider this to be what you do when "reading" braille. as you refer to it as "reading and writing" braille, although it sounds silly, i would consider it a visual communicaton, as a blind person " see's by touch" hope this helps.
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February 6th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
It is tactile communication.
Another example of tactile communication is the Deafblind alphabet which is spelt out on the palm of the hand.
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