The phrase "able to be in touch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express the ability to communicate with someone or to stay connected to someone. For example, "We are now able to be in touch with our customers via text messages, phone calls and emails."
An editor raises a defense of American Airlines and its ad, arguing that if your job forces you to travel, it's better to be in touch with your children than not to be able to be in touch.
In that [long pause] if in work you're able to be in touch with the forces that make you and direct you, then that's a perfectly reasonable conception of what happens.
The candidate, she told Winfrey, took that question as a challenge, and was insulted by the implication that she was a member of "a nomadic tribe from some Neanderthal cave" and wasn't able to be in touch with the rest of the world.
The vibraphonist Gary Burton, who used e-mail to organize the recording sessions for his 1998 release "Like Minds," said, "You learn more from other musicians than from any other source, and being able to be in touch with hundreds of players -- not just the few you know personally -- is a great source of inspiration".
A lot of my favorite artists are able to be in touch with their problems and put it through melodies.
In an interview with Katie Couric on Nov. 2, 2008, Obama deflected the issue by claiming he hasn't "been able to be in touch with her" but that immigration laws, "have to be obeyed".
It's unfortunate that we haven't been able to be in in touch more often (that's as much my fault as anything else -- I rot at long-distance communication), because our friendship is important to me.
Kids who are damaged enough not to be able to be touched in an easy way — I wanted to show that it was a dead end once they were molested and damaged.
Being able to always be in touch… love it!
They are all able to be identified and then kept in touch with.
"People are preparing that, if they lose power, this is the way that they are going to be able to stay in touch".
