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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"orientation and mobility"”.
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Using verbal and physical prompts to teach the use of a long cane to a student who is visually impaired and has additional severe disabilities
Orientation and mobility is the task of teaching persons with visual impairments to move independently, safely and purposefully through the environment. Traditional orientation and mobility techniques, and traditional methods of teaching those techniques, do not address the needs of those persons …
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Virtual Reality as Navigation Tool: Creating Interactive Environments For Individuals With Visual Impairments
… experiments. One area of application is as an orientation and mobility assistance tool for people with visual impairments. Some of the challenges are developing useful knowledge of the user’s surroundings and effectively conveying that information to the user. This thesis examines the …
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Increasing Functional Task Performance in Adults with Low Vision
… images captured on a camera the person wears and the images are translated via electronic stimulation on the tongue to paint a picture. Two studies that measured functional task performance<strong> </strong>utilizing a TDU with adults with low vision were explored. Examples of functional tasks …
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Synthesis and characterization of silk-inspired thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers
… developed to mimic the hierarchical structure and superior properties observed in spider silk fibers. The silk's toughness is related to a fiber morphology that includes P-pleated crystalline sheets within an amorphous matrix, as well as an additional interphase with an orientation and mobility …
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Academic experiences of blind students in two colleges of education in Zambia.
… blind students in the two colleges of education and available support provisions. The study employed an interpretative paradigm, qualitative method and phenomenological design. Using purposive sampling, a total sample of fourteen (14) participants; eight (8) blind students, four (4) college …
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Academic experiences of blind students in two colleges of education in Zambia.
… blind students in the two colleges of education and available support provisions. The study employed an interpretative paradigm, qualitative method and phenomenological design. Using purposive sampling, a total sample of fourteen (14) participants; eight (8) blind students, four (4) college …
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Time Resolved Light Sheet Microscopy
Understanding and identifying critical protein-protein interactions is just one of the key outcomes in biological research. It can help to confirm key cellular interactions, which in some fields, such as cancer research, can result in a greater understanding of disease pathogenesis, elucidate …
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A Descriptive Study to Determine the Educational Needs of Visually Impaired Students in Grades 1 - 12 in North Dakota
… in local educational agencies in North Dakota; and (b) to establish which programs or services the North Dakota School for the Blind should offer to visually impaired children, their parents, and educators. The target populations surveyed were educators of visually impaired students, parents, …
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INQUIRY INTO VISION LOSS: INVESTIGATING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF ADVENTITIOUSLY BLINDED ADULTS
… Sensory Enhancements, Benefits of Vision Loss, and Participants’ Advice.</p> <p> The study indicated that participants’ experiences are influenced by how others in society understand blindness. Suggestions included providing a greater awareness to the public for blindness, its effects, and its …
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Indoor wayfinding in children with visual impairments: How the use of a coding robot impacted route familiarization and spatial planning
… their school buildings. Traditional methods of orientation—walking the route multiple times, verbal directions, and tactile maps—work well for many, but not all. When one student struggled to learn a route in his high school using traditional methods, coding a robot to replicate the pattern of …