Visually Handicapped Travelers in the Rapid Rail Transit Environment

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (10) ◽  
pp. 469-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Jackson ◽  
Alec F. Peck ◽  
Billie Louise Bentzen
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Section 504 ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Rehabilitation Act Of 1973 ◽  
Urban Transit ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Visually Handicapped ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation Act

Visually impaired people often rely on mass transportation to maximize the benefits derivable from independent community living. Yet many of these individuals regularly encounter great difficulty while attempting to use urban transit systems. This article examines the concept of accessible environments for the visually impaired and then describes the role of the federal government in encouraging local transit authorities to comply with Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that requires barrier-free access to all users. It concludes with a summary of the particular problems experienced by visually handicapped travelers as they negotiate the rapid rail mode of transit.

scholarly journals EFL Education for the Visually Impaired in Japan: Data from Five Interviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
James Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Education System ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Japanese Education ◽  
Educational Support ◽  
Educational Law ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Visually Impaired Students

The educational research literature has promoted integrating students with disabilities into mainstream classrooms since the 1970s. In 2007, the Japanese government amended the School Educational Law, which has increased the number of educational opportunities available to students with disabilities. At the same time, the Japanese education system is, increasingly, following the global trend of promoting English as a foreign language (EFL) education at every level of the education system. There are approximately 1.64 million visually impaired people in Japan. Of these, an estimated 187,800 are blind. Even as the disability rights movement in Japan advances its agenda of barrier-free access, the processes through which blind students learn (and can be taught) foreign languages has not been well described within the broader educational community. In this paper, I will present the results of an interview study conducted with student and teacher participants at a school for the visually impaired in Japan. In this study, I sought to address two research foci: 1) what best practices can support teachers in conducting classes with visually impaired students; and 2) how visually impaired students relate to and engage with their EFL classes. Through my analysis of the interview data, I identified three core themes: a) the importance of targeted needs analysis; b) the centrality of braille for equity and access; and c) a tension between traditional educational support systems for visually impaired students in Japan, and what contemporary students increasingly need.

A Range of Vision: Museum Accommodations for Visually Impaired People

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (7) ◽  
pp. 325-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice P. Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Handicapped People ◽  
Visually Handicapped

Museums offer a range of programs for visually handicapped visitors, the approach depending upon the type of museum. In a period of constricting financial resources, the emphasis is on creating the most wide-ranging and usable accommodations possible. Professionals serving visually handicapped people are called upon to act as consultants, as are the visually handicapped themselves, to use their experience in advising museums on outreach programs, tours, and other services that will draw in the hesitant consumer.

scholarly journals Design and Fabrication of an Intelligent Walking Staff for Visually Impaired Subjects

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Rashidah Funke Olanrewaju ◽  
Muhammad Luqman Azzaki Mohd Radzi ◽  
Mariam Rehab ◽  
Fawwaz Eniola Fajingbesi
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Detection Rate ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Ultrasonic Sensors ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
The World ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Overall Efficiency ◽  
Visually Disabled

<p>The joy we derive from our ability to commute and interact freely with the world as a result of our possession of sight with the naked eyes are enormous however the Visually impaired people find great difficulty in moving around freely without a human guide, especially in a new terrain. This research reports the design and fabrication process of an intelligent walking staff (iWalk) specially designed for the visually disabled individuals to argument their loss of sight, improve and ease their navigation. iWalk was designed around water and ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles and water ahead. iWalk also has a wireless RF remote control buzzer for localization and detection in case it gets misplaced. The proposed system operability and efficiency was adequately tested using physical dataset composed of randomized locations with random obstacles and water. The proposed algorithm achieves an overall efficiency of 90% detection rate for water and ultrasonic sensor and 85.75% for the RF wireless remote control.</p>

scholarly journals Accessibility analysis for the visually impaired using LazarilloApp

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Luiz Fernando Delboni Lomba ◽  
Josivaldo Godoy da Silva ◽  
Andréia Insabralde de Queiroz Cardoso ◽  
Aislan Vieira de Melo ◽  
Alline Lam Orué ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Physical Spaces

Visual impairment causes limitations, including mobility. Studies show that there are about 1.3 billion people in the world with some type of visual impairment. Another important factor refers to the need to include these visually impaired people in schools and universities, for autonomy, learning and personal development. Public policies seek to implement measures that ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities, in order to ensure the use of environments in an equal manner. However, these measures are not implemented due to several factors, such as the lack of knowledge of professionals and the lack of financial and technological resources. This research project aimed to evaluate the use of LazarilloApp, a georeferencing application that helps the mobility of people with visual impairment. The tests were conducted at a university in Brazil. Although it has many features and potential, the application was partially effective and efficient, since in only one of the four routes drawn by it the user arrived at the destination. The accessibility problems identified reinforce the need to enable access through structural changes in physical spaces. The results indicate the need to foster the improvement of the functionalities of LazarilloApp and other mobile applications of free access, for the disabled.

Availability of Orientation and Mobility Services in Public Schools

1978 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 173-176
Author(s):  
Tom E. C. Smith ◽  
Larry R. Dickerson ◽  
Jim S. Liska
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Section 504 ◽  
Rehabilitation Act Of 1973 ◽  
The Public ◽  
Departments Of Education ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
The Status ◽  
Mobility Training ◽  
Visually Handicapped

Public Law 94-142 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 require that appropriate educational services be provided to all handicapped children. For some visually handicapped students, this includes orientation and mobility training. This study surveyed the 50 State Departments of Education on the status of orientation and mobility, services in the public schools. Findings revealed that, although some states have orientation and mobility services in public schools, a large gap exists between these services and services needed to fully meet the mandate.

Articulatory Intervention for the Visually Impaired

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Cheri L. Florance ◽  
Judith O’Keefe
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
School Students ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Paired Stimuli ◽  
Visually Handicapped ◽  
Parent Program

A modification of the Paired-Stimuli Parent Program (Florance, 1977) was adapted for the treatment of articulatory errors of visually handicapped children. Blind high school students served as clinical aides. A discussion of treatment methodology, and the results of administrating the program to 32 children, including a two-year follow-up evaluation to measure permanence of behavior change, is presented.

Application of IoT Based Stick for Visually Impaired People in CVIS System

CICTP 2020 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Muhammad ◽  
Qizhou Hu ◽  
Muhammad Tayyab ◽  
Yikai Wu ◽  
Muhammad Ahtsham
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People

Widening the horizons: Information space of the library for the blind as the resource to improve quality of life of visually impaired people

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Novikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Special Library

The special library acts as the cultural and educational center for visually impaired people, and as the center for continuing education. The multifunctional performance of the library is substantiated. The joint projects accomplished in cooperation with theatres and museums and aimed at integrating the visually impaired people into the society are described. Advanced training projects for the library professionals accomplished in 2018 are discussed.

Touching Blind Bodies: A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Tilley ◽  
Jan Eric Olsén
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Visual Disability ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Cultural Constructions

Changing ideas on the nature of and relationship between the senses in nineteenth-century Europe constructed blindness as a disability in often complex ways. The loss or absence of sight was disabling in this period, given vision’s celebrated status, and visually impaired people faced particular social and educational challenges as well as cultural stereotyping as poor, pitiable and intellectually impaired. However, the experience of blind people also came to challenge received ideas that the visual was the privileged mode of accessing information about the world, and contributed to an increasingly complex understanding of the tactile sense. In this chapter, we consider how changing theories of the senses helped shape competing narratives of identity for visually impaired people in the nineteenth century, opening up new possibilities for the embodied experience of blind people by impressing their sensory ability, rather than lack thereof. We focus on a theme that held particular social and cultural interest in nineteenth-century accounts of blindness: travel and geography.

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