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Peer reviewedGuarniero, Gerard – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1977
The author, who is congenitally blind, describes two training programs with a Tactile Vision Substitution System, including a mobile version of the device. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Electromechanical Aids, Exceptional Child Research
Research and Development of Tactile Facsimile Reading Aid for the Blind (The Optacon). Final Report.
Linvill, John G. – 1973
Presented is a report on the 5-year project to develop the Optacon, an electronic device which allows the blind individual to read ordinary printed matter directly and independently. Chapter (1) provides and introduction and overview of the Optacon Project. Summarized in Chapter (2) is a chronological account of the Optacon Project which traces…
Descriptors: Blindness, Electromechanical Aids, Exceptional Child Research, Material Development
James, Grahame; Swain, Richard – New Outlook for the Blind, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Foreign Countries
Download full textWeisgerber, Robert A.; Everett, Bruce E. – 1975
Reviewed is an American Institutes for Research (AIR) study to identify predictors of Optacon success and to develop and field test appropriate Optacon training materials for use by 112 blind elementary and secondary students in 15 U.S. public and residential schools. Potential use of the Optacon (an optical to tactile conversion device that…
Descriptors: Blindness, Electromechanical Aids, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
Clark, Leslie L., Ed. – 1968
Papers included are the following: aspects of mobility in the blind by J.A. Leonard; the development and analysis of tactual measures of intelligence for the adolescent and adult blind, a summary of a doctoral dissertation by Eoline Christine Cull; an investigation of human visual information transmission, a doctoral dissertation by Ronald Joseph…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Doctoral Dissertations, Exceptional Child Research
