I read an article today about how deaf people can hear... how the deaf can enjoy music in a bar... how they can dance to the music. The article says that they do this by either finding the beat by feeling the vibrations in the floor or furniture, watching others dance, and feeling the sound waves among other things.
When on the dance floor, the deaf can communicate with their other deaf friends across the room - 'could you get me a soda?'. Of course, they just use hand signals. As long as they can see the other, that wouldn't be a problem. I find this as a really cool advantage=D.
SHOULD'VE put that in as a learning for today BUT I feel that's nothing new. It's a bit understandable/deducible as I see it... having lacked in one important sense, they'd have developed more in one or more of the other senses. This just points out that some deafs have a more developed sense of touch(?) than non-deafs to compensate for their deafness.
source: Bite Magazine, Nov 2008
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