I get confused between coactive signing and tactile signing. How are they different?
Tactile signing is a means of receptive communication. The child tactilely perceives or reads the signs by keeping his or her hand over the signer s hand. Coactive signing is used for instructional purposes, to teach a child how to produce a new sign in the appropriate situation, or to help a child to produce signs to convey a message that he or she wants to express. Use tactile signing when you want to send the child a message and coactive signing when the child wants to communicate something. Just as listening precedes speaking in children who can see and hear, understanding tactile signs (receptive language) precedes the production of signs (expressive language) by children who have a hearing loss and no vision.
