Visual impairment

which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues, in different locations near the mouth, as a supplement to speechreading. The National Cued Speech Association defines Cued Speech as "...a visual mode of communication that uses hand shapes and placements in combination with the mouth movements and speech to make the phonemes of spoken language look different from each other." It adds information about the phonology of the word that is not…

Visual Neglect Patients: Methods in Exploring Perceptual Deficits This essay holds the purpose of critically analysing the methods used in regards to visceral inabilities in visual neglect patients. Visual neglect is a failure to attend or respond to a specific side of meaningful stimulus typically following a lesion on the brain. It goes by the names unilateral neglect, hemi-inattention (Robertson & Halligan, 2014), hemispatial neglect (Luukkainen-Markkula, Tarkka, Pitkanen, Sivenius, &…

Universal Newborn Hearing Screenings Over 50 years ago, audiologists, educators, parents, and medical personnel recognized and stressed the importance of early identification of hearing loss among infants. The understanding for a need for early identification of a child’s hearing loss has led us to the modern technology and assessment of hearing for newborns, most commonly referred to as the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS). In the United States, as of 2007, over 90% of newborns are…

As a fifth grade teacher it is my goal to provide a classroom environment that stimulates the diverse learner population. Traditionally, the majority of the lessons are plan toward the level of understanding of most of the student, but by incorporating educational resources in the classroom, the entire classroom population can involve in learning simultaneously. Multimedia: Interactive Software Research is studying the probable benefits of computer-based instruction is substantiated in basic…

My thoughts about the experience and blindness and deafness are it sucks to be deaf, but it sucks more to be deaf and blind. This experience made me feel lost and frustrated. Getting around the house when you’re unable to see is hard. Although I had friends helping me by guiding me through my house, it was kind of difficult to follow their direction when being deaf. I often felt dragged and scared. I didn’t know what direction I was heading. The communication between my friends and I wasn’t…

right-nearsighted and left-farsighted eye since birth. The doctor explained to my parents that my brain systematically ignored all images from the right eye which led to the corresponding brain area underdeveloped. His prognosis had a slight chance of visual restoration if I were to exercise my right eye persistently and adamantly to retain brain-eye connection. Not only that, underdeveloped brain eventually would negatively affect all areas of academics. Because I saw everything perfectly…

Aggression is a behaviour that is unpleasant, frightening or intimidating. It takes a variety of forms and can be physical, mental or verbal. It can cause physical pain or emotional harm to those it is directed at. It is caused by a range of factors, such as substance misuse, mental health, a personality problem, fear or an attempt to dominate someone else. People who are aggressive towards other people are often bullies. Aggression is a form of communication ion that it communicates a person’s…

According to a study by Donatella Pascolini and Silvio Paolo from 2000 to 2016, there are 285 million people who are visually impaired, while 82% of people above the age of 50 are visually impaired. The major causes of visual impairment are uncorrected refractive errors and cataracts which are the leading cause of blindness. Cataract is a disease where the clear lens of the eye becomes cloudy or opaque. Through a normal eye, light enters through the lens to the retina. The lens must be clear…

impaired might receive less educational opportunities. Deaf child in the United States should no matter what be allowed a free, good, and proper education and strong support without any unfairness. Fact being that the nation has now and is becoming more visual and therefore, starting to depend and prefers to use sign rather than speak in today modern life. ASL is considered beautiful; it is like a dance with a passionate meaning and fascinating background. What most people fail to understand is,…

literature has demonstrated that exposure to emotionally arousing stimuli can alter the perceptual mechanisms of participants. The present experiments attempted to expand this research to examine cross-modal vision and audition. Emotion Processing in the Visual Modality The mechanisms responsible for emotion processing have been selected over the course of generations as they confer survival advantages. Susskind, Lee, Cusi, Feiman, Grabski, and Anderson (2008)…