CHI 2011 COMPETITION WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY Webster‚ A.‚ Roe‚ J.‚ Children with Visual Impairments: Social Interaction‚ Language and Learning Visual impairments and Individual Needs London: Routledge (1998) Summary: This chapter sets out how the authors have approached the individual learning needs of children with visual impairments‚ and emphasizes‚ wherever feasible‚ a research basis for intervention. They explore contrasting images of children with visual impairments‚ highlighting unique
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How the perception of the blind or visually impaired differs from that of the sighted. Article 1: Auditory Substitution of Vision: Pattern Recognition by the Blind The goal of the experiment in this study was to investigate whether or not there was an effect on the performance of recognizing visual patterns using auditory substitution by the early blind. The reason for the study is because of the development of the graphical user interface (GUI) in information technology‚ relating to computer
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Do humans have the capacity to change? The modern view of neuroscience is that ‘You are your brain.’ Many scientists conclude that any behavioral change in humans is a direct result of the imbalance in their neurobiology. Humans have the capacity to change‚ and it can be either positive or negative depending on the experience that caused the behavioral alternation. The literature brings variety of examples on different types of human change. Some of them can be taken consciously when others are
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The narrator was not enthused about the visit at all; he was dull and bitter about the though of the visit. The narrator has unrealistic thoughts about blind people and learned all his knowledge about them from Hollywood movie scenes: “My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies‚ the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not Cohoon2 something I looked forward to” (Carver). Clearly‚ the movies that he had seen did
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Strategies for Teaching Music to Visually Impaired Students Sean M. Rybak Kent State University Abstract The purpose of this study was to research successful strategies for teaching music to mainstreamed students who are visually impaired. The way visually impaired students learn classify them into one of three learning groups; visual learners who learn by sight‚ tactile learners who learn from touch and auditory learners who learn by hearing. Strategies for each learning style are
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13747 CH3.qxd 11/22/08 12:22 PM Page 44 MODULE 3 Overcoming Communication Barriers MODULE OVERVIEW Being able to effectively communicate—or participate in the exchange of information—is an essential skill for dental health care providers. For many dental health care providers in the United States today‚ providing patient-centered care involves learning to communicate effectively with patients even when various barriers to communication are present. This module presents strategies
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Female leaders are not the most common thing in the world‚ in fact out of 142 nations only 63 of them have had a female leader in the past 53 years (Kent). That makes the novel by Jose Saramago a very unique novel. In the novel‚ Blindness‚ the only character that can see is the Doctors’ Wife‚ therefore making their leader a female. Some of the reasons Saramago had picked a female to be the leader of the story is because it is easy for women to see a problem within in a society rather than a male
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BODY-ADAPTED WEARABLE ELECTRONICS The field of body-adapted electronics has been around for quite some time. People have been wearing calculator watches‚ mobile phones‚ music players‚ ear phones and the like for many years now. I was intrigued by the new ideas that have developed within the last few years in the way of health monitoring devices. There is a wristband available for you to monitor your exercise‚ health‚ behavior‚ and blood pressure. It helps you to understand your exercise and
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Seeing Through Blind Eyes: In a critical essay written by Diane Andrews Henningfeld‚ Henningfeld says that the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly before Carver made it the title of his collection that bears the same name. The story has become one of the most frequently taught short stories of Carver’s body of work (Henningfeld). In the story‚ the closed-minded narrator meets his wife’s good friend‚ Robert‚ who happens to be blind. As the story progresses
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The story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver is about one man’s understanding and acceptance of a blind man. The narrator represents the story’s dominant theme of overcoming prejudice of the blind through personal experience as well as mutual respect. The narrator‚ who remains nameless‚ holds deeply unfounded beliefs and stereotypes of what a blind person should be‚ yet over a relatively short period of time he develops a bond with the blind man‚ whom at first he privately mocked. The narrator’s preconceived
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