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What Museum Guides Need to Know
by Gerda Groff and Laura GardnerThis book provides practical, easy-to-use suggestions on how to greet and assist blind and visually impaired visitors. It also covers aesthetics and visual impairment, legal requirements for accessibility, and resources. It includes a training outline for museum professionals, a bibliography on art and museum access for blind and visually impaired persons, and guidelines for preparing large print, braille, and cassette materials.
Visual Impairment
by Ian L. Bailey and Amanda HallA general, down-to-earth look at the common forms of vision loss and their impact on the individual. Explains the different aspects of visual impairment, describes adaptive techniques and devices, and provides information on available resources and services in a concise and easy-to-understand manner for busy professionals and visually impaired people and their families. Visual Impairment: An Overview seeks to clarify misconceptions and misunderstandings of the different aspects of visual impairment, describe adaptive techniques and devices, and provide information on available resources and services. Anyone with questions about vision loss will find this book a useful resource designed to increase understanding of visual impairment and the ability of visually impaired people to lead unimpaired lives.
Art Not by Eye
by Yasha LisencoThe book, in two parts, deal with avenues for adventitiously blind adult, and the blind and severely visually impaired adults in the art program.
Essays on Blindness Rehabilitation in Honor of Thomas J. Carroll
by John F. MuldoonThe author of the articles in this book has given us an excellent assessment of Father Carroll's concepts and the viability of those concepts today. Moreover, they have provided us with a look at the man behind the ideas.
Low Vision
by Virginia E. Bishop and Jane N. Erin and Anne CornThis research report, based on a multiphase survey of professionals, identifies important trends into the next century. Designed for administrators, policy planners and university instructors, as well as for direct service providers, Low Vision includes background overview papers by six eminent leaders in the low vision field.
Data on Blindness and Visual Impairment in the U. S.
by Corinne KirchnerData from a wide variety of sources cover age, gender, race and ethnicity, education, employment and income, service delivery systems, vision services, employment-related services, and income benefits program.
What of the Blind? A Survey of the Development and Scope of Present-Day Work with the Blind
by Helga LendeThis book is intended as a companion volume to What of the Blind? Recently published by the American Foundation for the Blind. The first volume was brought out in answer to a long-felt need for a convenient reference work to put in the hands of professional workers, board members and lay persons desiring general information on work with the blind. The subjects treated were mainly of a general nature as will be seen from the table of contents appended to this book.
The Demography and Causes of Blindness
by Hyman GoldsteinA report on the statistics of blindness from an international point of view.
Ability Structure and Loss of Vision
by Jyrki JuurmaaPsychological testing of the ability structures of the blind and sighted was commenced almost simultaneously during the first decades of this century. However, a majority of the studies concerning the blind, and the most crucial among them, sought to develop IQ-type test batteries, intended mainly for appraising their school achievement. By contrast, systematic studies have not been carried out to explore the relationships among different, mutually relatively independent traits and the quantitative contributions of such traits to different test performances. This lack of interest is perhaps due to the narrow range of occupations regarded as suitable for the blind: there has been no acute need for a more differentiated picture.
Manual for the Stanford Multi Modality Imagery Test
by William L. DautermanThe author's data on the test called "The Stanford Multi-Modality Imagery Test for the Blind" as a part of a research project has been revised in this manual under the name of "The Stanford Multi-Modality Imagery Test."
Images of Blind and Visually Impaired People in the Movies, 1913-1985
by Wendy Erickson and Diane WolfeListed in this book are the titles and other information about movies that include characters who are blind or visually impaired.
The Community of the Blind
by Yoon Hough KimDr. Kim has investigated the validity of the widely-held view that while there are a large number of blind persons whose social lives are centered in the mainstream, that is with sighted persons, there are an equally large number of blind persons whose social lives are restricted mainly to other blind persons.
The Blind in School and Society
by Thomas D. CutsforthThe purpose of this book is to help acquaint the seeing with the blind and the blind with themselves.
What of the Blind? A Survey of the Development and Scope of Present-Day Work with the Blind
by Helga LendeWhat of the Blind? is designed with a view to presenting in one single volume the experience and opinions of leaders in this specialized field. The material has been grouped so that the student may easily find the aspect of the subject in which he is especially interested. Following each chapter is a short reading list which will serve as a guide to further study.
HIV/AIDS Prevention
by Judy Matsuoka and Christine E. Pawelski. and Gaylen KappermanThis manual is designed to help rehabilitation teachers, educators, and other practitioners who work with blind and visually impaired persons provide their clients with the facts they need to deal with the issues concerning HIV/AIDS.
The Social Sources of Adjustment to Blindness
by Irving Faber Lukoff and Martin WhitemanThe impact of society on the blind is a complex issue, and many different tacks are necessary even if we are to only make little headway through the eddies and currents that alter and modify people's lives. This study is focused on the social forces that influence the adaptation of blind persons. The information derives from almost 500 interviews with blind persons selected from all walks of life.
From Homer to Helen Keller
by Richard Slayton FrenchFrom Homer to Helen Keller, Homer stands for the greatest achievement of the blind in the times antecedent to their systematic education. He stands for all those bards, many of them blind or blinded, creators of literature and makers of our language, who through ballads, always of great vigor and sometimes of surpassing beauty, have handed down to us the glorious traditions of far-off heroic times.
Miss Keller stands for the supreme achievement of education. The blind claim her, but the deaf can claim her, too, and modern education can claim her more than either--and all humanity claims her with the best claim of all. For she is the epitome of all that is best in humanity, all that is most spiritual; and all this through conscious aim and directed effort, through education in its best sense.
A Psychiatrist Works with Blindness
by Louis S. CholdenEach patient will react to blindness in a manner characteristic for his personality. He will react to it as an emergency situation which will have most serious consequences for his future life plans. Besides the emergency aspect of the loss of vision, blindness in itself holds a number of special and deep meanings to the patient which must be considered in attempting to understand its effects. These meanings may be discussed from the psychologic, social and vocational points of view. But, because the patient will react to the problem of blindness in a way which is peculiar to him, one might predict within certain limits what the patient's reactions will be, providing we understand his personality structure.
Berthold Lowenfeld on Blindness and Blind People
by Berthold LowenfeldThis book contains articles spanning a period of almost 40 years by Dr. Berthold Lowenfeld, a creative writer in education of the visually handicapped on Blindness and Blind People.
The Demography of Blindness Throughout the World
by Hyman GoldsteinMost of the world's blindness could be prevented, and the attack on it and its consequences proceeds apace through such organizations as the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, and the World Health Organization.
For greatest effectiveness, their programs must be based upon accurate data, as a WHO study quoted here by Dr. Goldstein makes clear: "In order to establish appropriate priorities for prevention and treatment at the national and international level, it is essential that reliable up-to-date statistical data on prevalence, age of onset, and causes of blindness be obtained."
But even in the United States, where collection of data on blindness began in 1830, there are still no reliable trend data. In much of the rest of the world data are fragmentary, and data that would allow valid country by country comparisons are almost non-existent.
Dr. Goldstein has done a valuable service in pulling together such statistics as can be found, and in discussing their weaknesses and strengths.
Orientation and Mobility Techniques
by Diane L. Fazzi and Janet M. BarlowThe very first techniques book in orientation and mobility has been completely revised and updated for today's fast-changing world, while remaining true to Hill and Ponder's simple organizational principles that generations have known and loved. A new, easy-to-read color format, accompanying photographs, updated information on street crossings at complex intersections, and a new chapter on O&M for people with low vision make this revised edition a must-have in your O&M library.
Access to Mass Transit for Blind and Visually Impaired Travelers
by Mark M. Uslan and Alec F. Peck and William R. Wiener and Arlene SternAccess to Mass Transit addresses travel issues vital to independence for blind and visually impaired persons from several perspectives- those of blind and visually impaired persons who use mass transit, orientation and mobility instructors, and transportation professionals. Focusing on national and international issues, this information-filled manual covers approaches to making mass transit accessible in several cities in the United States and in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Arranged in a well-illustrated, easy-to-use format, tips, techniques, guidelines, and adaptive strategies are presented for safe and independent travel on subways, buses, and commuter rails.
English / Spanish Basics for Orientation and Mobility Instructors
by Christian J. FoyThis book was written as a teaching aid for orientation and mobility (O&M) instructors. Author's intention is not to teach the techniques of the profession but to supply the vocabulary instructors might use to teach students in Spanish.
The Profession of Orientation and Mobility in the 1980s
by Mark M. Uslan and Everett W. Hill and Alec F. PeckThis book is a report of two national studies to compile descriptive statistical information about the demographic trends that will influence the future of the O&M profession--one conducted in 1983 and the other in 1985.
Hand in Hand
by Elga Joffee and Jeanne Glidden Prickett and Therese Rafalowski Welch and Kathleen Mary HuebnerThis series was designed to develop resources for educators of children who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, and severely disabled. The Hand In Hand materials emphasize the communication and mobility skills crucial to independence, and provide important information to help service providers do their jobs effectively. Containing contributions from more than 30 nationally recognized experts in the field of deaf-blindness, this groundbreaking information consists of four components that can be used separately or together. A two-volume, self-study text that explains how deaf-blind students learn, focusing on essential communication and mobility skills. Designed to provide comprehensive information in an easy-to-read way, this invaluable resource includes identified key concepts, self-study questions and answers, and references. The user-friendly format includes concise "Help at a Glance" and "From Theory to Practice" sections throughout. Sidebars, figures, tables, graphs, and photos offer additional perspectives and information.