Healing the Blind: Perspectives of Blind Persons on Methods to Restore Sight

2012 ◽  
pp. 159-166
Author(s):  
Arielle Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Blind Persons

A Brief Overview of Services to Blind Persons

1964 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 213-214
Author(s):  
H. Kenneth Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Blind Persons

An Analysis of Attitudes—Dynamics and Effects

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice A. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
The Way

Several cognitive factors are singled out because of their strong influence on the way in which the abilities of blind people are perceived, namely: the spread phenomenon, position of the observer, expectation discrepancy, restricting environmental opportunities in accord with expectations, attribution to person versus environment. In the affective area, negative emotional factors (pity, fear, uneasiness, guilt) and positive emotional factors (genuine sympathy, respect, appreciation, warm interpersonal relationships) are discussed. Ambivalence (the presence of both positive and negative components) is seen as contributing to the variability of behavior toward blind people. Finally, guidelines for the improvement of attitudes and environmental opportunities are outlined. Of special significance for the education of the public is the approach based on the coping framework as opposed to the succumbing framework. Integrating blind persons with sighted persons into as many activities as possible is supported. The vigorous engagement and leadership in programs for the blind by blind people working collaboratively with sighted people are also stressed.

Phantom-based haptic line graphics for blind persons

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calle Sjöström ◽  
Henrik Danielsson ◽  
Charlotte Magnusson ◽  
Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn
Keyword(s):  
Blind Persons

Cognitive Mapping by the Blind

1978 ◽  
Vol 72 (8) ◽  
pp. 297-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Casey
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
School Students ◽  
Congenitally Blind ◽  
Tactile Maps ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
Partially Sighted ◽  
Blind Students

In an effort to study the cognitive mapping abilities of blind persons, tactile maps of a school campus were made by ten congenitally blind and ten blindfolded partially sighted high school students. Although some blind students made well-organized and accurate maps of the campus, most of the maps made by the congenitally blind subjects were poorly organized and integrated as compared with maps made by the blindfolded partially sighted subjects. Blind persons exhibit varying methods for categorizing the elements of a large environment, and the method of cognitive mapping is believed to be related to how well a person can negotiate within the environment.

Use of a Mobile Unit for Delivering Services to Older Blind Persons

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Ronald Landwehr ◽  
Kenneth Hutcheson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Access Barriers ◽  
Mobile Unit ◽  
Training Unit ◽  
Blind Persons

Describes a mobile training unit used experimentally to deliver services to older blind persons who were isolated by multiple disabilities or because they lived in rural areas with inadequate facilities. In view of access barriers caused by the vehicle's design, difficulties in using and maintaining such a large vehicle, consumer unwillingness or inability to leave home, or, if they did, inability to transfer skills from unit to home, the disadvantages of the unit outweighed the advantages.

Touch, Talk, and Travel

1978 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 284-286
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Cangelosi
Keyword(s):  
Rehabilitation Training ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
Blind Persons

Describes the special problems and needs of deaf-blind persons in rehabilitation training, particularly in orientation and mobility. The importance of communication is stressed.

Teaching Show Jumping to Blind Persons

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (10) ◽  
pp. 413-413
Author(s):  
Robert B. McLaren
Keyword(s):  
Blind Persons ◽  
Show Jumping

Preventing Institutionalization of Elderly Blind Persons

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Arnold M. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Nursing Home Care ◽  
Service Delivery Model ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Describes the Virginia Commission's Project on Aging approach to serving elderly blind persons on the verge of entering a nursing home. Using empirical observations of the Project's participants, provides insight into the characteristics and needs of this population, examines the impact of a service delivery model that imphasized linkages to existing community services, and discusses the development of a structured volunteer program that enabled elderly blind persons to remain in a community setting. A longitudinal cost analysis of 42 olients whose imminent institutionalization was prepented by the Project's intervention, suggests that the dollar cost of maintaining elderly blind persons in the community is considerably less than the cost of nursing home care.

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