Humanizing Blindness through Public Education

Public attitudes toward blindness are shaped by limited contacts with visually impaired people and unrealistic portrayals of blind people in the media. These attitudes hamper the integration of blind and visually impaired persons in society. Professionals in the field need ‘to work together to develop national and local public education programs to change stereotyped thinking. Proactive efforts that include a variety of methods can begin to humanize blindness and hence can lead to greater opportunities for fuller participation in society.

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The Use of Fax Technology to Address the Reading Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired Persons

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x9008401005 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 84 (10) ◽

pp. 509-513

Author(s):

W. Gerrey ◽

J. Brabyn ◽

W. Crandall

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Office Workers ◽

Preliminary Results ◽

Blind And Visually Impaired ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Blind Persons ◽

Visually Impaired Persons

Although fax communications pose a problem of accessibility for blind and visually impaired office workers, with centralized readers’ services they could be used to address the wider reading needs of blind and visually impaired people. With this technology, blind persons with fax machines could send unknown print to readers at a centralized readers’ service, who would read facsimiles of the documents over voice phones. This article discusses the specifications for appropriate equipment and protocols and presents the preliminary results of a study of such a system.

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A Survey of Recreation Personnel in Agencies and Schools for Blind and Visually Impaired People

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x9108500211 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 85 (2) ◽

pp. 86-88

Author(s):

I. Ludwig

Keyword(s):

Continuing Education ◽

National Survey ◽

Employment Status ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Educational Background ◽

Professional Affiliation ◽

Blind And Visually Impaired ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Visually Impaired Persons

This article reports on a national survey of recreation personnel in agencies and schools for blind and visually impaired persons. The survey addressed the personnel's employment status, educational background and continuing education experiences, professional affiliation, and interest in networking with other recreation personnel who work with blind and visually impaired persons.

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Caseload Size Survey of Agencies Serving Blind and Visually Impaired Persons

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x8608000405 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 80 (4) ◽

pp. 683-684

Author(s):

Leroy H. Pelton

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Public And Private ◽

Blind And Visually Impaired ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Different Types ◽

Visually Impaired Persons

A caseload size survey was conducted of both public and large private agencies serving blind and visually impaired people. Wide variations in caseload size were found between different types of professional caseworkers, between agencies, and between public and private agencies.

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Wykorzystanie nowych technologii w orientacji przestrzennej osób z niepełnosprawnością wzroku

Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej ◽

10.14746/ikps.2017.18.04 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 53-66

Author(s):

Kamila Miler-Zdanowska

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Information Technologies ◽

New Technologies ◽

Blind People ◽

Research Projects ◽

Blind And Visually Impaired ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Fast Development ◽

Technical Solutions

The fast development of electronic and information technologies makes them becoming ever more present in the lives of the blind and visually impaired people. The aim of this article is to present modes of mobility of people with visual impairment, with particular focus on new technologies. The article contains the classification and characteristics of electronic aids used in spatial orientation and mobility for blind people. It also presents the benefits and difficulties of using these types of new technologies. The article presents research projects related to the construction and testing of new technical solutions in Poland.

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Information for and by Blind Persons in Rural Asia

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ◽

10.1177/0145482x9008400608 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 84 (6) ◽

pp. 262-265

Author(s):

M. Miles

Keyword(s):

Visually Impaired ◽

Communication Strategies ◽

Blind People ◽

Blind And Visually Impaired ◽

Self Help ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Impaired People ◽

Blind Persons

Blind and visually impaired people in rural Asia are largely unreached by modern rehabilitative information, nor are their indigenous skills and experience adequately formulated and shared. The use of many media in communication strategies has led to the reconceptualization of rehabilitation in information terms which offers better prospects of self-help for several million blind people.

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Computer Vision-Based Assistive Technology for Helping Visually Impaired and Blind People Using Deep Learning Framework

Handbook of Research on Emerging Trends and Applications of Machine Learning - Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9643-1.ch027 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 577-598

Author(s):

Mohamamd Farukh Hashmi ◽

Vishal Gupta ◽

Dheeravath Vijay ◽

Vinaybhai Rathwa

Keyword(s):

Computer Vision ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Visual Object ◽

Blind People ◽

Daily Routines ◽

Learning Framework ◽

Blind And Visually Impaired ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

The World ◽

Impaired People

Millions of people in this world can't understand environment because they are blind or visually impaired. They also have navigation difficulties which leads to social awkwardness. They can use some other way to deal with their life and daily routines. It is very difficult for them to find something in unknown environment. Blind and visually impaired people face many difficulties in conversation because they can't decide whether the person is talking to them or someone else. Computer vision-based technologies have increased so much in this domain. Deep convolutional neural network has developed very fast in recent years. It is very helpful to use computer vision-based techniques to help the visually impaired. In this chapter, hearing is used to understand the world. Both sight sense and hearing have the same similarity: both visual object and audio can be localized. Many people don't realise that we are capable of identifying location of the source of sound by just hearing it.

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

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0014 ◽

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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