Results on the perception of speech through the Tadoma method (in which the “listener” monitors the articulatory process by placing a hand on the talker's face) have been obtained on seven adult deaf‐blind, experienced Tadoma users. Six of the subjects became deaf and blind as a result of meningitis between the ages of one and seven; the seventh became deaf from a progressive hearing loss and blind from retrolental fibroplasia suffered in infancy. Performance was measured on various word and sentence tests (W‐22 words, SPIN sentences, and CID sentences), syllable tests (identification of sets of consonants and vowels), and a test of language (Quigleyet al., 1978). The results of these tests provide us with information concerning the comparative abilities of a relatively large sample of experienced Tadoma users to communicate through Tadoma. [Work supported by NIH.]