How to brainwash a deaf person

Maybe one tactic would be love bombing, which isn't always verbal affirmations?

I work with an interpreter for the deaf, albeit in a department store where we both sell cosmetics, and have seen her communicate via sign language, body language, facial expression, mouthing words, offering reading material, demonstration. There are so many ways that messages are communicated other than spoken word.

Yeah but isnt it much more difficult to evoke an emotional response when the ability to use tone of voice is negated?

Templar, not really. Deaf people just use different cues. Physical expressions, how one is gesturing, posture.

For example -- signing close to the body comes across as 'quiet'. Sign farther from the body and you seem more 'forward' or 'loud'. You can sign with small hand motions, or with larger ones -- 'shyness' or 'shouting' .

Sign is basically a foreign language. For native and fluent speakers, it's no less emotionally evocative than any 'heard' language is.

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