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Anderson, Dawn L.; Baguhn, Sarahelizabeth J. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2022
People with visual impairments use a wide variety of sensory information to understand the world around them. Many persons who are visually impaired (i.e., those who are blind or have low vision) use some form of echolocation to monitor the space around them. This process of identifying the properties of an object may be referred to as…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Visually Impaired Mobility, Navigation, Auditory Discrimination
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Scott, Alan C.; Barlow, Janet M.; Guth, David A.; Bentzen, Billie Louise; Cunningham, Christopher M.; Long, Richard – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2011
Accurately aligning to a crosswalk is an important component of safe street crossing for pedestrians who are blind. Six alignment cues were evaluated in a simulated crosswalk environment in which the angle of the crosswalk was not always in line with the slope of the ramp. The effectiveness of each cue is reported and implications are discussed.…
Descriptors: Cues, Blindness, Visual Impairments, Travel Training
Larson, Richard W. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1975
Descriptors: Acoustics, Blindness, Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Education