Another reason you don't need to apologize for using gestures when talking to a blind person

It's not unusual for people to apologize for finding themselves using gestures while talking to me, although I always assure them that, being Italian, I get it.

Here is an article that explores the theory that gestures and other body movements are an integral part of learning language itself, and that making related gestures can improve language learning
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-links-gestures-perception-and-meaning-20190325/