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Kennedy, J. M. (1993). Drawing & the blind: Pictures to touch (1st ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. This groundbreaking work explores how children and adults who have been blind since birth can both perceive and draw pictures. John M. Kennedy, a perception psychologist, relates how pictures in raised form can be understood by the ...
- John M. Kennedy
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Books. Drawing & the Blind: Pictures to Touch. John Miller Kennedy. Yale University Press, Jan 1, 1993 - Education - 315 pages. This groundbreaking work explores how children and adults who have been blind since birth can both perceive and draw pictures. John M. Kennedy, a perception psychologist, relates how pictures in raised form can be ...
This book is for kids age 4 5 6, and 7. From Daniel Bernstrom, the acclaimed author of One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree, comes a charming and irresistibly fun picture book about a young blind girl and her grandmother who experience the vibrant everyday music of their busy city. A young girl, filled with the sounds of her beloved city ...
Sep 1, 2006 · The nine later-blind subjects in the study fared slightly better than the congenitally blind and the sighted, scoring 4.2 on the drawing task and 8.3 on the recognition task.
Dec 21, 2023 · 2023 has been a big year for Living Paintings. We’ve doubled the number of blind and visually impaired children using our service – and more children means we need more books. A busy 2024 lies ahead!Luckily, we’ve made an incredible start, publishing a record number of new accessible picture books that blind and visually impaired children can explore through touch and sound in 2023.
The child can use this artifact to identify the book and distinguish it from others in his or her collection. Covers don’t need to be fancy. Although it is visually meaningful to have a book about Jim’s trip on the city bus cut out in the shape of a bus, this shape doesn’t provide the same stimulus for the student with visual impairment.
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Abstract. [This book] explores how children and adults who have been blind since birth can both perceive and draw pictures. [The author] relates how pictures in raised form can be understood by the blind, and how untrained blind people can make recognizable sketches of objects, situations, and events using new methods for raised-line drawing. . . .
