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He Communicates With His Family By Touching
Umran Köksal, Ali Şerafettin Köksal’s wife, helps us to
communicate with him. To begin with, we ask her when
his husband lost his ability to see. She explains that in
1976, when they got married, she was 16 and he was
21, his husband could see. ‘’He could see until 1982, only
for six years after we got married, and then he slowly
disabled.’’ she says.
According to the statements of his wife, Ali Köksal had
been plunged into darkness, because of the damage on
his brain’s visual cortex as a consequence of high fever
he had when he was a little child. He had surgery many
times,but after every surgery, they were disappointed.
Because he was literate when he could see, he had learnt
the sign language used by deaf people and then he started
to communicate with his wife using a special method
that they developed and based on touching.Umran
Köksal reminds that she has no diffuculty communicating
with his husband bacause her father is also deaf and
dumb. ‘’We used to communicate using sign language,
but now we do this by touching.’’ says Umran Köksal.
She is like her husband’s eyes and ears.
Started Making Models ‘First A Bird Cage’
Umran and Ali Şerafettin Köksal have three children. Their
sons were born when he was still able to see. When his
daughter was born, he had nothing left from the light
he had. Once, Umran Köksal asked her husband ‘’Would
you prefer to hear or to see’’ The answer was ‘’To see’’.
‘’Because he couldn’t see his daughter in her wedding
dress while she was getting married, so he cried so
much.’’ Umran Köksal adds.
When Ali Şerafettin Köksal, deaf and dumb from birth, lost
his ability to see, he had the biggest support from his wife.
Umran Köksal reveales another talent of his husband who
has been already skillful at painting so as not to let him feel
depressed. One day, she brings his skillful husband a bird
cage,made by one of her neighbour’s child.Mr. Köksal tries
to identify it gropingly and says that ‘’ I can do better.’’
Umran Köksal says that ‘’He was already accustomed
to carpenter’s tools at the time he could see,so the bird
cage just led the way.’’ Meanwhile, she shows us the
wooden models on the shelves and states proudly that
‘I discovered my husband’s talent.’ Umran Köksal had all