Can you learn Japanese if you're blind and deaf?

Yes, you can learn Japanese Braille. Braille is a reading and writing system designed by Frenchman Louis Braille[1] , who himself was blind. The system is designed so that blind people can read information easily. read more

Yes, you can learn Japanese Braille. Braille is a reading and writing system designed by Frenchman Louis Braille, who himself was blind. The system is designed so that blind people can read information easily. read more

People who become deaf-blind, after being born just deaf or just blind, have the capacity to lean to read and write a new language, but will probably not learn to speak it. People born deaf-blind, as I said, struggle with a first language, but some master one, and then learn another. read more

Sign language didn't exist until then, and deaf people were much worse off than other people with disabilities. If you were blind in Japan you could be a shiatsu masseuse, play the koto or the shamisen, or be a money lender. But these sweet gigs didn't exist for deaf Japanese. Instead, most of them performed ordinary manual labor jobs, like farming. read more