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Griffith, Penny L.; And Others – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped, 1983
Signs selected from lists used in studies with mentally retarded and autistic children and previously rated for visual iconicity were presented tactilely to 13 blind adults and adolescents. Visual and tactile ratings were found to be very similar across blind, deaf, and hearing-sighted adults and hearing-sighted children. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Deaf Blind, Manual Communication
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Kern, Janet K.; Trivedi, Madhukar H.; Grannemann, Bruce D.; Garver, Carolyn R.; Johnson, Danny G.; Andrews, Alonzo A.; Savla, Jayshree S.; Mehta, Jyutika A.; Schroeder, Jennifer L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice, 2007
This study examined the relationship between auditory, visual, touch, and oral sensory dysfunction in autism and their relationship to multisensory dysfunction and severity of autism. The Sensory Profile was completed on 104 persons with a diagnosis of autism, 3 to 56 years of age. Analysis showed a significant correlation between the different…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Autism, Correlation, Sensory Experience
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Lederman, Susan J.; Campbell, Jamie I. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1983
Initial research is reported on development of a tangible graphics (a display with raised symbols for reading by hand rather than by eye) system and its evaluation by 20 blind adults. Results suggested that tangible graphs are a viable source of spatial information for blind readers. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Braille, Reading Improvement
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Cranney, Jacquelyn; Ashton, Roderick – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1982
Investigates the development of lateralization of cerebral function for touch and assesses whether deaf children's lateralization pattern for this sensory system shows any deviations from that of normal children. Three groups of right-handed subjects voluntarily participated in a unimodal haptic matching task: hearing adults, hearing children, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cerebral Dominance, Children
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Pester, Eleanor J.; And Others – RE:view, 1994
Forty adults with adventitious blindness were administered 12 different Braille discrimination tests representing combinations of standard or enlarged Braille and various amounts of horizontal and vertical spacing. Findings indicated that the most favorable discrimination conditions occurred with standard-sized Braille, with three spaces between…
Descriptors: Adults, Adventitious Impairments, Blindness, Braille
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Newman, Slater E.; And Others – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1990
This study evaluated performance of blind (n=17) and sighted adults on a haptic numerosity task of braille symbols in which symbol size was varied. Although blind subjects performed better than seeing subjects, the rate of learning and patterns of errors were similar, except that blind subjects did better with standard than with enlarged symbols.…
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Braille, Error Patterns
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Kleinman, Joel M.; Brodzinsky, David M. – Journal of Gerontology, 1978
Matching accuracy and strategy utilization in young, middle-aged, and elderly adults was examined in a series of intramodal, haptic match-to-standard problems. Results indicated that elderly adults were less successful in solving the haptic problems. They also displayed less systematic and logical haptic search strategies. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Geriatrics, Gerontology
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Richardson, Barry L.; And Others – British Journal of Psychology, 1981
In a comparison of the performance of active and passive mechanically yoked subjects who learned their way through a tactile maze, it was shown that active subjects made more errors and took a greater number of trials to reach criterion than did passive subjects. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Style, Locus of Control, Personality Traits
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Cobb, Nancy J.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1979
In two related experiments on recognition--on touch and audition--accuracy rates were obtained from 14 congenitally blind adults and compared with those for normally sighted Ss. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Blindness, Exceptional Child Research
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Berger, Carole; Hatwell, Yvette – Cognitive Development, 1993
The developmental change from global toward dimensional classifications, usually observed in vision, was investigated in haptics with stimuli varying according to their size and roughness. Results indicated that, although more overall similarity classifications were observed in children than in adults, this kind of classification was never…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Classification
Symons, Frank J.; Sutton, Kelly A.; Bodfish, James W. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
The sensory status of four nonverbal adults with mental retardation and severe self-injury was examined using skin temperature measures prior to opiate antagonist treatment. For each participant, the body site targeted most frequently for self-injury was associated with altered skin temperature and reduced by naltrexone treatment. In all cases,…
Descriptors: Adults, Drug Therapy, Heat, Self Injurious Behavior
Schlenker, Richard M. – 1977
Lowenfeld (1945) developed a series of six instruments which could be used to identify perceptual abilities. For this study, the visually oriented person was defined as the objective viewer of the environment, while the haptic person was defined as a person who uses the eyes only when forced to do so and relates to his environment subjectively. He…
Descriptors: Adults, Perception Tests, Perceptual Development, Research Problems
Schlenker, Richard M.
Two groups of continuing education students were tested using three of Viktor Lowenfeld's tests of visual-haptic perception. The scores from the three tests were added to yield a score which identified an individual's location on Lowenfeld's visual-haptic continuum. The investigation also uncovered scoring problems with two of the tests which had…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Geographic Regions, Perception Tests
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Easton, Randolph D.; Bentzen, Billie Louise – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1980
Two experiments compared single v double lines on tactile mobility maps using 12 blindfolded sighted Ss, 12 congenitally blind Ss, and 12 adventitiously blinded Ss (age range for all three groups, 7 to 72). (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Adventitious Impairments, Blindness, Children
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Reed, Charlotte M.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Experienced deaf-blind users (N=10) of sign language tested their ability to receive signed messages including isolated signs and sentences. A set of 122 isolated signs was received with an average accuracy of 87%. Signed sentence reception accuracy ranged from 60-85%, with errors accounted for primarily by deletions and phonological or…
Descriptors: Adults, Comprehension, Deaf Blind, Error Analysis (Language)
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