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Kamijo, Haruo; Morii, Shingo; Yamaguchi, Wataru; Toyooka, Naoki; Tada-Umezaki, Masahito; Hirobayashi, Shigeki – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Various tactile methods, such as Braille, have been employed to enhance the recognition ability of chemical structures by individuals with visual disabilities. However, it is unknown whether reading aloud the names of chemical compounds would be effective in this regard. There are no systems currently available using an audio component to assist…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Auditory Stimuli
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Wong, Meng Ee – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2004
For a country such as Japan where higher education is historically and widely esteemed, the visually-impaired community's incongruous departure from the university route to a vocational one is considered in relation to post-school choices. The predominance of the "riryoka" vocation for the visually-impaired (VI) largely influences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Visual Impairments, Career Choice