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    Inattentional Blindness

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    trial‚ they added a small square placed close to both lines. After the trial‚ subjects were asked if they had noticed anything unusual within the trial‚ with only ten percent of the subjects reporting that they noticed the square. Inattentional blindness occurs most often when the subjects are focused on something else‚ such as the lines on the cross mentioned

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    Everyone is blind until they experience something or meet someone that changes the way they see things. For some‚ meeting someone is enough to change their perspective on life. However for others‚ it may take an experience like falling in love or experiencing a death of a loved one in order for the individual to be enlightened to a new way of looking at things. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje shows Patrick as he goes from being blind to the realities of life to being enlightened to many

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    History of Braille

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    THE HISTORY OF BRAILLE A Requirement in SPED 503 INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES for VISUALLY IMPAIRED SATURDAYS 10AM-12NN Submitted on: JULY 20‚ 2013 "It has been a long hard struggle by the blind to obtain an education. It has been filled with pit falls and stumbling blocks‚ often placed there by well meaning sighted persons whom did not fully understand the needs of the blind. Yet we will show that there were and continues to a growing number who did and

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    wisdom we must possess before we depart from this home‚ from this family. We were so curious about all the things that we encountered everyday but we did not know to whom we must hold on and how to distinguish right from wrong. And because of such blindness‚ receiving only the radiance of the twilight‚ some succeeded in knowing all the essential things to be remembered and to be understood by the heart but others got lost and failed to know the indispensable truth of life. We have encountered many things

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    Psychometric Test

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    Assessing the ability of blind and partially sighted people: are psychometric tests fair? 1. Introduction Psychometric or standardised tests are assessments that measure knowledge‚ abilities‚ attitudes and personality traits. They are used in education and recruitment and can consist of written‚ online or oral tests. Blind and partially sighted individuals are potentially disadvantaged by the use of these tests. RNIB is often approached by teachers and parents concerned about the

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    The Blindness of the Non-Blind The short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver displays one man’s new found understanding and acceptance of a blind man over a relatively short period of time. The narrator represents the story’s dominant theme of overcoming fear and prejudice of the blind through personal experience as well as mutual respect. The narrator who remains nameless throughout the play holds deeply unfounded beliefs and stereotypes of what a blind person should be‚ yet through various stages

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    A Blind Man Makes Him See

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    friend. The man‚ who is also the narrator‚ is wary of this rendezvous‚ having known no blind people in his own life up to that point. His ignorance is apparent as he thinks of blind people only from a cinematic perspective. He tells us “My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies the blind moved slowly and never laughed” (28). From his cynical and insecure tone‚ we can tell that the main character is a complacent man full of self-doubt with an inability to think outside of world that he

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    Bibliography: Online Sources Blindness in the Philippines.Resources for the blind.Retrieved August 4‚2012. Light for the World. Retrieved September 8‚ 2012. Blind Adults in America: Their Lives and Challenges. The National Research Center for Women & Families.Retrieved August 4‚2012

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    Outcome1. 1. describes how a range of factors have a negative and positive impact on individuals with sensory loss. There are a number of factors that can impact individuals with sensory loss. People with sensory loss can miss out on important information that people without sensory loss take in day to day without even realising. Communication is an area in which people with sensory loss have many issues. they may also find it difficult to feed themselves‚ dressing‚ mobility‚ hobbies and interests

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    Cathedral

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    through sight‚ but how you imagine it. The narrator is very skeptical of Robert the blind man because he doesn’t understand how someone would want to continue to live even though you can’t see. He states “And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies.” The narrator is making prejudgments of the blind man based off what he has seen in movies. This leads me to believe that he is a closed minded man and doesn’t want to try to understand Roberts’s life because he thinks he already

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