Editing Tadoma (section)

== History ==
The Tadoma method was invented by American teacher [[Sophie Alcorn]] and developed at the [[Perkins School for the Blind]] in [[Massachusetts]]. It is named after the first two children to whom it was taught: Winthrop "Tad" Chapman and Oma Simpson. It was hoped that the students would learn to speak by trying to reproduce what they felt on the speaker's face and throat while touching their own face.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charlotte M. Reed|title=Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96|date=November 1996|chapter=The Implications of the Tadoma Method of Speechreading for Spoken Language Processing|volume=3|pages=1489–1492|chapter-url=http://www.asel.udel.edu/icslp/cdrom/vol3/1002/a1002.pdf|doi=10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607898|isbn=0-7803-3555-4|s2cid=14924215}}</ref>

[[Helen Keller]] was a famous user of    the method.