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Peer reviewedLederman, 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
Davidson, Terry – New Outlook for the Blind, 1973
Descriptors: Braille, Exceptional Child Services, Sensory Aids, Tactual Perception
Direct linkPACER Center, 2004
Speech recognition technology helps people with disabilities interact with computers more easily. People with motor limitations, who cannot use a standard keyboard and mouse, can use their voices to navigate the computer and create documents. The technology is also useful to people with learning disabilities who experience difficulty with spelling…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Learning Disabilities, Access to Computers, Assistive Technology
Colombo, Donald R. – School Shop, 1979
The author describes several teaching aids and techniques to help blind and partially sighted students understand electronics, specifically devices (with availability) he has found effective in preparing a blind student for a ham radio license: an audital multimeter, raised line drawings, Opticon, braille texts, and Speech Pulse Calculator. (MF)
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Educational Media, Electric Circuits
Dorward, Barbara; Barraga, Natalie – 1968
Illustrated instructions are provided for constructing 32 teaching aids. To be used with blind and visually limited children, the aids are designed to assist the child in exploration, discrimination, and recognition; spatial orientation and association of tactual symbology; likenesses and differences in tactual group symbols; word association and…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Blindness, Braille, Discrimination Learning
Download full textNational Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development. – 1967
The problems of providing sensory aids for the blind are presented and a report on the present status of aids discusses direct translation and recognition reading machines as well as mobility aids. Aspects of required research considered are the following: assessment of needs; vision, audition, taction, and multimodal communication; reading aids,…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception, Braille, Equipment Evaluation
Clark, Leslie L., Ed. – 1969
Articles report surveys and research studies as well as describe systems in educational technology. Areas treated include the following: multihandicapped blind and deaf blind children in California, by B. Lowenfeld; modern trends in mobility, by J.A. Leonard; factors in the definition of deafness as they relate to incidence and prevalence, by J.…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Behavior Patterns, Blindness, Braille
