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From pro- +‎ tactile, first used c. 2012.[1][2]

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Protactile

  1. A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
    • 2014 August 20, John Lee Clark, “Pro-Tactile: Bursting the Bubble.”, in Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience, Handtype Press, →ISBN:
    • 2016 November, Massimiliano Spotti, Nelson Flores, Ofelia Garcia, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 257:
      Exploring the linguistic phenomenon of pro-tactile has lead Terra Edwards to make distinctions between Tactile ASL (TASL) and Visual ASL (VASL) (www.protactile.org, October 3, 2014).
    • 2020 October 9, Erin Manning, For a Pragmatics of the Useless, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
      ProTactile builds on this quality of expression, alive with decisions made on the fly, touches become pass-words for fields of composition as yet uncharted.

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  1. ^ Christine Amanda Roschaert (2013 February 18) “Pro-Tactile: The DeafBlind Way!!!”, in Tactile the World[1], WordPress, archived from the original on 2014-11-20:
    Having already learned the basics of yet-unnamed PT prior to visiting Scandinavia in 2012 during my European lecture series, [] When I gave my lecture at the Copenhagen Association of the Deaf, a Deafblind Dane came up to me and mentioned that they use the Haptic. [] It was only coincidence, that three months after my initial lesson in Haptic, I was introduced to the newly-named Pro-Tactile method. Now there was a name to what I was doing all along with aj [Granda] and my Deafblind peers in Seattle.
  2. ^ Mentioned in Michele Friedner, Stefan Helmreich (2012 March) “Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies”, in Senses & Society, volume 7, number 1, Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, page 81:
    A new bumper sticker reading “Pro Tactile,” found on cars in Seattle, Washington, home of America’s largest Deaf-Blind community, and exhortations, also found mostly in Seattle, such as “Tactile love” remind us of the centrality of something other than sound or vision in many peoples’ social worlds [] .

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