{"id":936,"date":"2022-02-21T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?page_id=936"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:55:24","slug":"visual-frame-signing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/information-and-advice\/ways-of-communicating\/visual-frame-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual frame signing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This page describes what visual frame signing is, who uses it and how to use it in the most effective way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is visual frame signing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With visual frame signing, the person communicating with you uses sign language<\/a>, making the signs in a smaller area that stays in your smaller field of vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Sense can help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We offer free and impartial information about living with complex needs, including deafblindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get in touch by phone, email, post or through a BSL interpreter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

Who uses visual frame signing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you have a loss of vision as well as hearing loss, people can communicate with you using visual frame signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, if you get tunnel vision, the area you can see gets smaller. It\u2019s as if you\u2019re looking through a tunnel and can only see things in a small circle directly in front of you. So someone will sign only in the small circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before you read on\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n