In everyday life we interpret the world around us using our five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. What if you were born without one of those senses, or maybe multiple of them? How do people adapt to the world if they are born blind, and is it the same way people that have an accident or disease that caused their blindness later on in life adapt? We know that people have overcome their disabilities to do great things for instance Hellen Keller who was born a deaf/blind/mute went on to become famous and Ray Charles who went blind due to Glaucoma went on to become a famous musician. I did some research into all of the senses and tried to figure out what affect they had in our lives in various ways. Why is touch so important to
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Those who lose their sight and hearing later in life can use it to read lips, but because the method is extremely difficult and time consuming to learn by the 1950s it began to lose ground to American Sign Language as the dominant teaching method. In ASL, the deafblind place their hands over a signer’s hands and follow their motions with a finger, which is simpler because the movements are less subtle. As a result of this take over, today only a handful of people in the world still use of the Tadoma Method to speak to one …show more content…
The perfume industry is built around this link, with perfume companies developing fragrances that try to shoe a large amount of emotions and feelings; from desire to power, vitality to relaxation. On a personal level, smell is very influential in the attraction between two people; research has shown that our BO can help us subconsciously choose a mate. Kissing is thought by some scientists to have originated from sniffing; that first kiss being our way of smelling our potential mate and judging them based on what they smell like. It is likely that much of our emotional response to smell is governed by association, something which is borne out by the fact that different people can have completely different perceptions of the same smell. Take perfume for example; one person may find a particular brand ‘powerful’, ‘aromatic’ and ‘heady’, with another describing it as ‘overpowering’, ‘sickly’ and ‘nauseating’. Despite this, however, there are certain smells that all humans find repugnant, largely because they warn us of danger; the smell of smoke, for example, or of rotten
Those who lose their sight and hearing later in life can use it to read lips, but because the method is extremely difficult and time consuming to learn by the 1950s it began to lose ground to American Sign Language as the dominant teaching method. In ASL, the deafblind place their hands over a signer’s hands and follow their motions with a finger, which is simpler because the movements are less subtle. As a result of this take over, today only a handful of people in the world still use of the Tadoma Method to speak to one …show more content…
The perfume industry is built around this link, with perfume companies developing fragrances that try to shoe a large amount of emotions and feelings; from desire to power, vitality to relaxation. On a personal level, smell is very influential in the attraction between two people; research has shown that our BO can help us subconsciously choose a mate. Kissing is thought by some scientists to have originated from sniffing; that first kiss being our way of smelling our potential mate and judging them based on what they smell like. It is likely that much of our emotional response to smell is governed by association, something which is borne out by the fact that different people can have completely different perceptions of the same smell. Take perfume for example; one person may find a particular brand ‘powerful’, ‘aromatic’ and ‘heady’, with another describing it as ‘overpowering’, ‘sickly’ and ‘nauseating’. Despite this, however, there are certain smells that all humans find repugnant, largely because they warn us of danger; the smell of smoke, for example, or of rotten