In blinds, the tactile sensations play a crucial role for various daily activities, in the all sense modalities tactile sensation is considered as major sense of perception. This study is conducted to investigate the tactile sensations in relation to Bilingual and Monolingual blinds using experimental comparative study design, divided into two…

Although very rare, the existing research on the biological education of blind people indicates that teaching content is not fully in line with the sensory perception of that content by the blind. The aim of this study is to analyse the morphological details which the blind can register in multisensory plant research and to harmonise the…

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the sensory skills among students with visual impairment (SVI). The sample contained of 30 students with blind and low vision enrolled in mainstreaming programs at general education schools at Najran in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A sensory skills scale was developed. The scale consisted of 20 items was…

Multisensory peripersonal space develops in a maturational process that is thought to be influenced by early sensory experience. We investigated the role of vision in the effective development of audiotactile interactions in peripersonal space. Early blind (EB), late blind (LB) and sighted control (SC) participants were asked to lateralize…

A study explored the nature of representational thought in 10 congenitally blind three- to nine-year-olds through interviews during which the subjects defined and described objects and later identified similar objects. Results suggested that blind children should be taught appropriate or systematic methods for tactually obtaining information. (CB)

GROUPS OF 24 BLIND ADULTS (ALL SKILLED BRAILLE READERS) AND 24 SIGHTED COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE COMPARED ON A TACTUAL IDENTIFICATION OF FORM TASK IN WHICH RAISED DOTS WERE USED. THE TWO INFORMATION PARAMETERS, COMPLEXITY AND REDUNDANCY OF THE DOTS, WERE ASSESSED USING PUNCTIFORM METRIC FIGURES RESEMBLING HISTOGRAMS AND SIMILAR IN SIZE AND SPACING TO…

ONE OF A SERIES OF PROVISIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THE FIELD OF SENSORY RESEARCH RELATED TO SENSORY (ESPECIALLY VISUAL) IMPAIRMENT, THE DOCUMENT LISTS 284 SELECTED WORKS ON ELECTRICAL STIMUATION OF SKIN. PRIMARILY JOURNAL ARTICLES, BUT INCLUDING SOME BOOKS AND SEVERAL THESES, THE ITEMS DATE FROM 1891 THROUGH 1967 (IN PRESS). PUBLICATIONS CITED ARE…

The study explored the concept of space through the tactual discrimination of household objects in 48 4-to-7-year-old blind, partially sighted, and sighted children. (PHR)

Describes the activities a teacher used at summer camp to acquaint blind children with nature. Discusses the similarities and differences between blind children and children with sight. (RL)

Performance of congenitally blind children and blindfolded children was compared on tasks requiring spatial reasoning and shape recognition. Blind subjects performed at least as well as blindfolded subjects on simple two-dimensional tactual processing tasks, but less well on more complex tasks requiring them to store, compare, and label objects.…