153 media results found for 'blind'
Byron Bridges, the ASL/English Bilingual Coordinator at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, discusses ASL mouth morphemes. The use of ASL mouth morphemes increases students' awareness of ASL adjectives and adverbs. They also help expand...Read More
Debbi Penrose, a sixth grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the strategy empowering students. By using this strategy, she hopes to provide students with the skills to articulate and express themselves throughout t...Read More
Mary Bilancio, a second grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the strategy making words. The application of this strategy helps students increase their phonemic awareness. Part of the "FSDB Pineapple PD" series.
Debbi Penrose, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, discusses the concept of time related to earth science. She uses different strategies to help her students understand time and scale related to different geological time pe...Read More
In collaboration with NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, Creative Technology and Design students at the ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado Boulder have deve...Read More
This video describes the case of a patient with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a progressive disease that leads to blindness, and how physician-scientist Dr. Ed Stone approached the search for the causal mutation. Just before his sophomore year in co...Read More
Just before his sophomore year in college, Sam Walker was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which can be caused by mutations in one of over 100 known genes. Dr. Ed Stone set out to identify the specific mutation affecting Sam with the hope...Read More
Braille allows people to read and write without being limited by vision loss. This video overviews reading and writing the alphabet, numbers, and some punctuation symbols. There are different types of braille and endless possibilities for its use...Read More
Mary Fisher's eyesight began to deteriorate during her teen years. Ultimately, she became blind. Watch as she overcomes adversities to become one of the strongest swimmers in the Paralympic Games. Part of the "Against the Odds" series.
"I think what your eyesight does is confirm other senses," says James Robertshaw, a world champion kite flyer and for two years personal assistant to Rory Heap. Heap has been blind from birth, but with Robertshaw's assistance pursues his ambition ...Read More
Kathy Blake is blind but two years ago she got a glimmer of hope. She heard about an artificial retina being developed by a company called Second Sight and the Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles. It was experimental, but Kathy was the perfect ca...Read More
Tony Ro, a neuroscientist at The City College of New York, is artificially recreating a condition called blindsight in his lab. Blindsight is a condition that some patients experience after having damage to the primary visual cortex in the back o...Read More
Carmen dreamed of a career on the stage, despite turning legally blind at 18 due to retinitis pigmentosa. Steve imagined a life on the screen, but his plans were ended by muscular dystrophy. Today the theater of their lives is defined by the walls...Read More
Viewers will explore the dynamics of family relationships through the eyes of children. Everything that can happen within a family is presented in various real-life situations. A boy explores his home with his eyes closed so he can understand how...Read More
The most applauded film project connected to blindness. Young Venezuelan director Argimiro Wanadi Siso Saldivia focused on blind photographer Sonia Soberats, who lost her two sons and developed techniques of no-visual photography "…as a therapy in...Read More
The most applauded film project connected to blindness. Young Venezuelan director Argimiro Wanadi Siso Saldivia focused on blind photographer Sonia Soberats, who lost her two sons and developed techniques of no-visual photography "…as a therapy in...Read More
Starting from the simple definitions of regular people about common words like rose, sky, usage, a deeper analysis is made about what significance is and how reality is satisfied with the sum of significances that surround us. Puns, regionalisms, ...Read More
The parakeet starts with a monologue about the differences between people. The first guest, the, jaguar, is upset that his friend the turtle was not at his tree party. But the turtle is also upset because she went to the party, but she couldn't ge...Read More
