Contents
Acknowledgments 
1.       Life at the Limits of Language
1.1      How to Read This Book
1.1.1    Translation, Style, and Convention
1.2      This Is a Jar Containing Strawberry Jam
1.3      Residence in the World
1.3.1    Affordances                                                                                        
1.3.2     Direct Perception                                                                                  
1.4      Representations of the World
1.4.1     Metatactile Knowledge
1.4.2     Language Emergence
1.5      Life at the Limits of Language
1.6      Conclusion
2.     Creating DeafBlind Identity
2.1      Building a Bridge
2.2      “We Need Interpreters”
2.3      DeafBlind Identity
3.     The Collapse of the World
3.1      Embracing DeafBlind Identity
3.2      What Identity Obscures
3.3      Existential Strain
3.4      Commitment Issues
3.5      Keeping Things Life-Like     
3.6      Signs of Collapse
4.     The Protactile Movement
4.1      “Everything We Touched Froze”
4.2      “The Family Was Almost Dead”
4.3      When the Problem Is the Solution
4.4      Learning about the World
4.5      Motivating Action
4.6      Re-defining Roles
4.7      Going Tactile
4.8      Conclusion
5.     Being for Speaking
5.1      Thinking for Speaking
5.2      Ways of Being DeafBlind                                                                 107
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