The experiences of a home counselor for a blind infant intervention program are summarized. Discussed is the role of four areas in successful programming: (1) exposure, or the need for hands-on experience with the world to understand cause/effect and promote imagination; (2) experience of things in such a way as to provide realistic associations…

The manual explains and illustrates techniques for orientation and mobility instruction for blind primary age students in the public schools. Techniques are offered for four types of skills: (1) sighted guides (traveling on stairs and through doorways, seating a blind person); (2) protective techniques (following a wall by trailing, lower and…

A series of experiments were conducted to study variables affecting the alignment of blind pedestrians at street intersections. In the first two studies blindfolded sighted students, serving as adventitiously blind people undergoing mobility training, learned one of three strategies: no concrete strategy, tracking, and tracking and compensation.…

Description of facilities at the British Talking Book Service for the Blind. (CH)

An explanation of experiences in reading for recordings for the blind. (CH)

The authors review their work on the role of attentional variables, such as in exploratory hand movements, selection and pickup of haptic shape information in the education of blind students. Efforts to design a technology to permit unobtrusive study of hand movements during braille reading and to link observed differences in scanning to reading…

This paper has tried to describe some of the "experiential" techniques and methods used in a group counseling situation with blind adolescents. Also, it shows that by using these methods, the group advanced a little further and a little faster than might otherwise have occurred. During the clinical services meetings, the other group leaders stated…

Guidelines are provided for the teacher who has a blind student in the class. (JD)

Intended to alleviate the confusion about the Nemeth Code of Braille Mathematics (a system designed to meet the mathematical symbol and computation needs of visually impaired readers of all levels), the article presents the most frequently used symbols and rules in a simple and ordered format. (Author/DLS)

Describes the experiences of a blind sixth grade boy who has been in regular classes since kindergarten. Briefly discusses things that his parents and school personnel have done to help him adjust to his handicap and function as a typical child. (JMB)

In a needs assessment conducted to measure perceived unmet needs of the blind population of Massachusetts, approximately 1,050 client interviews were conducted, using a sample stratified by age and region. (Author/CL)

Described is the Work-Experience Program at the Maryland School for the Blind in Baltimore. (DLS)

A blind infant used the Canterbury Child's Aid (a binaural spatial sensor) for such purposes as reaching, feeding, and walking. As a preschooler, she used it to explore novel environments and avoid objects in her path. Training increased her responsiveness to and action upon the environment. (CL)

The "Auditory Directional System" designed to help blind persons get to interior destinations in an institutional setting, uses a compact disc player, a network of speakers, infrared "people" detection equipment, and a computer controlled speaker-sequencing system. After initial destination selection, musical cues are activated as the person…

A questionnaire to measure the activity level of people with visual handicaps was developed which measured "independence" and "difficulty" in performing various activities, "felt loss" in not performing the activities, and "motivation to learn" the activities. (Author/CL)