Webbinarium: Tactile language del 1 – a circle model

Lecturer: Bettina Kastrup Pedersen

This first lecture introduces you to the concept of the circle model. The circle model helps to support analysis, providing cues about what to look for in the present dialogue with the purpose of formulating development goals or preparing activities and conversations.
The model is intended as a dynamic tool that can be expanded in order to incorporate new elements as our knowledge develops or new perspectives emerge.

 

On this webinar we will present the circle model in its present form and introduce the individual concepts, at the same time referring to the various chapters in the book If you can see it you can support it, which delve deeper into the individual elements and go into more detail.

 

The model was developed by an informal Nordic network, the Nordic Network on Tactile Linguality, during the last 10 years, under the auspices of the Nordic Welfare Centre. By exploring and reflecting on whether we can legitimately claim that language arising from the bodily tactile modality has value in human dialogue on an equal terms with verbal language, sign language and tactile sign language the network has developed this circle model that scaffolds and helps to understand and remember the many elements of tactile language. 

 

 

The lecture is based on chapter 2 in the book If you can see it, you can support it – A book on tactile language. Prepare by reading the chapter.