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Altunay Arslantekin, Banu – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Purpose: Visually impaired people are weak in terms of their learning words and concepts by hearing them and their experience of the world with their bodies. In addition to developing a standardized assessment tool in the Development of Orientation and Mobility Skill Assessment Tool (OMSAT/YOBDA) for Visually Impaired Students Project, supported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Impairments, Student Needs, Special Schools
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Koutsoklenis, Athanasios; Papadopoulos, Konstantinos – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2014
Introduction: The study presented here examines which haptic cues individuals with visual impairments use more frequently and determines which of these cues are deemed by these individuals to be the most important for way-finding in urban environments. It also investigates the ways in which these haptic cues are used by individuals with visual…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Blindness, Cues, Visually Impaired Mobility
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Lahav, Orly; Schloerb, David W.; Srinivasan, Mandayam A. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2015
Introduction: The BlindAid, a virtual system developed for orientation and mobility (O&M) training of people who are blind or have low vision, allows interaction with different virtual components (structures and objects) via auditory and haptic feedback. This research examined if and how the BlindAid that was integrated within an O&M…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Visually Impaired Mobility, Simulated Environment, Qualitative Research