Alternatives to Lorm Alphabet
Alternatives for deafblind
- Painting capital letters / block letters in the palm of its hand (writing in the hands of deafblind people):
for the initial communication
- Malossi Alphabet (touch-alphabet on the palm of the hand):
used in Italy
- Niessen alphabet (touch-alphabet on the back of the hand):
- Dactylation (scanning the fingeralphabet, 'Tactile Fingerspelling'
or 'Deafblind Alphabet': 
mainly in the USA
- Manual Alphabet (variant of the two-handed finger alphabet
or Deafblind Manual Alphabet): 
in Great Britain / Canada
- tactile sign language / tactile gestures (feel gestures restricted,
'hand-over-hand' or 'hand-on-signing'): 
[...englisch 'Hand-over-Hand' oder 'Hand-on-Signing' ]
possible for people who have used sign language before their blindness - Visual Frame (reduced gestures at visual impairment):
visual use of reduced gestures in the highly restricted field of vision of a deaf person
- Tandem (feeling of gestures with acoustic support):
simultaneous feeling of tactile gestures and acoustic recording of the spoken word in case of existing hearing loss
- Braille (electronic aids):
single-sided or two-sided communication system with Braille output for the deafblind and normal keyboard for the assistant - Finger Braille (touch alphabet with 6 fingers / write braille on the hand):
The Braille characters are written directly on the 6 or 3 fingers of the other (Japan) - Tadoma (Feeling the articulation movements):
The thumb or forefinger registers the movements of the lips while the remaining fingers touch the cheek and neck
- Morse (one-finger knock alphabet):
the Morse code
is knocked into the hand or
other parts of the body (also possible unobserved)
VIDEO from the 9th Helen Keller World Conference 2009 of
