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Fahimah Ali; Ben Braithwaite – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Deaf-sighted, deaf-blind, and hearing-sighted people have been interacting within a small community in the Bay Islands of Honduras for over a century (Ali 2023; Ali and Braithwaite 2020). In this article, we sketch the history of the community and the ways in which signers make use of their own and their interlocutor's bodies to co-construct…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Community, Deafness
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Intraub, Helene – Cognition, 2004
Viewers who study photographs of scenes tend to remember having seen beyond the boundaries of the view ["boundary extension"; J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 15 (1989) 179]. Is this a fundamental aspect of scene representation? Forty undergraduates explored bounded regions of six common (3D) scenes, visually or haptically (while blindfolded)…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Observation, Deafness, Blindness
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Sharpe, M.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1995
This article describes the first phase of a project to develop an empirically based scale to help multidisciplinary teams decide whether individual children need to start or continue braille instruction. Teachers and other practitioners (n=225) rated child characteristics on the extent to which they reflected the need for braille instruction, and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education