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Warren, David H. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1974
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Auditory Perception, Blindness, Exceptional Child Research
Alvir, Howard P. – 1977
The report summarizes the evaluation made of six special occupational education programs (five for the deaf and one for the blind) funded under Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, Part B, Section 4(B) of P.L. 90-576. Section I provides an overview of the observational techniques used to conduct the evaluation. The overview identifies what was…
Descriptors: Blindness, Career Education, Deafness, Demonstration Programs
The Research Centre for the Education of the Visually Handicapped, University of Birmingham, England
Tobin, Michael John – New Outlook for the Blind, 1975
Descriptors: Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Leonard, J.A. – New Outlook Blind, 1969
Descriptors: Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Kinesthetic Perception, Perception
Download full textCratty, Bryant J.; Williams, Harriet G. – 1966
Forty-three blind subjects, aged 17 to 45, were tested for perceptual thresholds of locomotion and received brief mobility training. Psychometric and psychological data obtained indicated that the subjects were above average in IQ (mean 115), emotionally stable, and relatively free from anxiety. Data on locomotion revealed the following: 91% of…
Descriptors: Blindness, Emotional Adjustment, Equipment, Etiology
World Council for the Welfare of the Blind, Stockholm (Sweden). – 1973
Reported is an international survey on training and employment opportunities for the visually handicapped. Described are responses to a questionnaire carried out jointly by the Committee on Professional and Urban Employment of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind, The International Labor Organization and the Swedish National Labor Market…
Descriptors: Blindness, Educational Facilities, Employment Opportunities, Exceptional Child Research
Kershman, Susan M. – 1976
A study was initiated with 60 blind children (kindergarten through grade 2) in order to validate the order of a sequence of tactual discrimination tasks leading to the use of braille and the Optacon. Ss were tested with tasks designed for the readiness level (discrimination of large solid geometric shapes, flat puzzle pieces, embossed dot…
Descriptors: Blindness, Developmental Tasks, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
Warren, David H. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1976
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Exceptional Child Research
Harley, Randall K.; And Others – New Outlook for the Blind, 1975
Descriptors: Blindness, Children, Exceptional Child Research, Multiple Disabilities
Stephens, Beth; And Others – 1977
Thirteen congenitally blind students (6-18 years old) who participated in a 2-year Piagetian-oriented remedial program experienced significant gains on 22 of 26 reasoning variables (as measured by a Piagetian battery), compared to a non-treatment group of Ss which achieved significant gains on seven of 26 variables. Results suggested the need for…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Blindness, Classification, Cognitive Development
Crowley, Francis J.; And Others – 1965
To determine whether differences exist in their listening ability, 152 blind braille-reading and 2 sighted children in the intermediate grades were studied. Subjects were classified into three ability levels on the basis of their scores on individual IQ tests. The Listening Subtest of the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress was administered…
Descriptors: Ability, Blindness, Communication (Thought Transfer), Exceptional Child Research
Wood, Thomas A. – 1978
A research project was conducted to investigate sensory, concept, and locomotion skills in severely multiply handicapped children. The project involved the development of evaluation and teaching materials to be utilized by classroom teachers and paraprofessionals with multi-handicapped children with severe visual deficits. The programed…
Descriptors: Blindness, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Kershman, Susan M.; Hart, Verna – 1975
A hypothesized hierarchy of tasks in the development of tactual discrimination (an essential skill for reading) was tested in 60 blind primary level children. For five braille and five Optacon (optical to tactile converter) sequences, Ss were asked to identify the different stimulus from the four presented. Scalogram analysis was used to examine…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
Weisgerber, 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
National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC. Committee on the Interplay of Engineering with Biology and Medicine. – 1973
To stimulate research proposals, the report stresses the need for a comprehensive research and development program regarding sensory aids for the visually handicapped and describes 17 representative projects viewed as warranting immediate attention. The 17 projects are categorized in two different ways. In a brief summary section, projects are…
Descriptors: Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Partial Vision, Program Development
