NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 16 to 22 of 22 results Save | Export
Nederlands Bibliotheek en Lektuur Centrum, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1982
Designed to provide information on public library services to the handicapped, this pamphlet contains case studies from three different countries on various aspects of the provision of audiovisual services to the disabled. The contents include: (1) "The Value of Audiovisual Materials in a Children's Hospital in Sweden" (Lis Byberg); (2)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Electronic Equipment, Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments
Kelly, Nancy – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2001
This article provides information on special education topics on the international front. Topics range from a BrailleNote project in British Columbia, a Swedish program to help Romanian children with special needs, a visual resource room to help New Zealand students with visual impairments, and technology programs in European countries. (CR)
Descriptors: Braille, Disabilities, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Lindstrom, J. I. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1990
This article discusses technology available in Sweden for visually impaired and deaf-blind people. It describes systems for stop announcements on buses and trams, queuing systems in shops and banks, text telephones, synthetic speech or braille displays of newspapers and other information sources, and home computers. Ideas for the future are also…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Blindness, Braille
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ek, Ulla; Fellenius, Kerstin; Jacobson, Lena – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2003
During a longitudinal in-depth study of the reading acquisition and cognitive and visual development of four children with cerebral visual impairment, the children's visual acuity improved, but their full-scale IQs declined, mostly because of difficulties in abstract thinking, visual cognitive organization, and extremely low processing speed. The…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Visual Acuity, Writing Ability, Brain
Brodin, Jane; Bjorck-Akesson, Eva – 1990
This examination of Swedish research in the area of communicative interaction is designed to establish a common base for analyzing communication through the use of video recordings. The review describes research from five perspectives: normally developing children, blind children and children with visual impairment, hearing-impaired and deaf…
Descriptors: Blindness, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness, Disabilities
PDF pending restoration PDF pending restoration
Goransson, Anne – 1999
The research reported is an experimental study on the effects of intensified education of Swedish parents of children with amblyopia (dimness of sight without apparent organic defect) on their understanding of the nature of the disease, its origins, and treatment. Parents in the control group (n=60) were exposed to the ordinary information…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Early Intervention, Etiology, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hunstad, Egil – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1985
Visualized braille was presented on closed circuit television (CCTV) to six blind tactile braille reading subjects (ages 12-50). Results supported cross-modal transfer of learning from tactile to visual modality. After intensive visual training, these subjects could discriminate visual forms and read ordinary print using the CCTV. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Blindness, Braille
« Previous Page | Next Page
Pages: 1  |  2