Hi I am very new to the EFT, as a practioner.

I was wondering if any one had worked with people with sensory imprairment, more to the point those who are sign language users and what barriers or interesting information they found when working with them?

My question (primarily) is how do you explain in a visual culture how EFT works and how do you get the emphasis that is some times required when doing the set up statement, is it enough to mouth or sign "key" issues?

what about tinitus has any one had any results or experience working with that arena and what did you do?

 While I have not yet used EFT with the deaf population, I have had experience with sign language and communicating with the deaf.  In my experience they understand and express emotions very well with their faces and sounds.  So I imagine you can prompt them to do this just by signing to them to do it with feeling, intensity or expression and they will easily get it.  My deaf friends are very theatrical. I would think mouthing would be appropriate with the tapping and then you could follow it up with the gestures or have them do the gestures while you tap on them at first.  I'm sure they probably would be very good at imagining the tapping in their minds while they sign.  Hope this helps.  I'm curious to here your experiences.

I worked with one client who was deaf.  Her mode of communciating was lipreading and she could speak but I didn't always understand her.  I don't sign.

I found the communication style of lipreading to be limiting -- she was so focused on understanding me that she didn't focus as well on her stuff that we were clearing and vice versa.  We ended up writing/typing notes and that worked well.  

She and I would say the phrases that I had typed out as we tapped.

tranquil Journey:

My question (primarily) is how do you explain in a visual culture how EFT works and how do you get the emphasis that is some times required when doing the set up statement, is it enough to mouth or sign "key" issues?

She read the manual first and then we worked together.  To answer your question on emphasis, I guess it depends on how the person would express emphasis normally.  Perhaps doing the setup action more vigoruously would do it.   Mouthing the words seems a good option ... I don't see how signing would work while tapping ...  unless the practitioner signed and the person tapped?

 It's a great question and I would love to see folks in/from the deaf culture bring in EFT.   As someone not around deaf folks, I felt very limited not being able to sign and I wish I could have directed my client to someone who did both EFT and signing.

 All the best,

Deborah