one of my college professors last semester was blind. she lived in another state and would fly in during the week to teach her classes and then fly home for the weekend to be with her husband. she handled a room full of college students, many of whom tried to take advantage of the fact that she couldn't see them, and got around campus perfectly fine. she was one of the best professors I've ever had, and i was disappointed to learn that she wouldn't be coming back after the summer.
i had a friend in elementary school who was blind. she needed a help getting around, but that was mostly because her training hadn't started until she was older. she handled being a classroom with 60-80 students (it was a combined classroom that housed 3 classes that were divided throughout the room and rotated between a set of teachers). she could understand the concepts being taught just as well as the sighted students, although sometimes special explanations and/or teaching techniques were needed to explain things. she was great to hang out with and i spent my recesses talking to her. i even taught her to weave gimp (that flat, plastic cord/string stuff that usually gets woven into a long, thin square tower).
both of them had a unique perspective on the world. since they'd never seen it there were some things that just made no sense to them. telling them what color something was meant absolutely nothing, either did race. they described things in sounds and smells and textures. something 'felt like a ball' instead of 'looking like a circle.'
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I have a DD client that thinks in feel, if that makes sense. He associates what things would look like based on how they feel. I think ALOT of blind people do this. Hence braille, and feeling faces and all that other jazz...
I still wanna know why drive up ATMs have braille on them....haha.
I have a DD client that thinks in feel, if that makes sense. He associates what things would look like based on how they feel. I think ALOT of blind people do this. Hence braille, and feeling faces and all that other jazz...
I still wanna know why drive up ATMs have braille on them....haha.
for all the blind people who just INSIST on driving, of course ^_~
I have a blind friend who can tell what amount the currency is just by feel. We've tested $1, $10, and $50 bills. She can also tell what color the paper is just by feel. Interesting huh?
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