[nabs-l] More Ideas Needed for my Research Project

[Carly]

I'm so sick of the albeit well meaning folks who say, when I request 
the stairs at school, "Are you sure you would like the stairs, not 
the elevator?" I always say something like, "yea," I can walk 
alright... I'm just stone blind."   people invariably are sort of 
baffled but usually, do accommodate. > wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > As I've mentioned here a few times, i'm doing a research project for
> > my Ph.D. dissertation investigating how disability simulations affect
> > nondisabled people's attitudes toward people with disabilities. In the
> > experiment I'm developing now, we want to compare a standard blindness
> > simulation (where people put on sleepshades and have to do some basic
> > tasks) with an enhanced simulation where people learn very basic
> > nonvisual techniques for handling the tasks. We want to show people in
> > the enhanced simulation condition that the tasks are more manageable
> > with the nonvisual techniques, and see if that makes them more able to
> > appreciate the adjustment that real blind people experience through
> > time and training. We need ideas for simple tasks that sighted people
> > could do blindfolded by using a nonvisual method that they can learn
> > fast without much practice. For example, one of our tasks is pouring a
> > glass of water as full as possible without spilling; in the enhanced
> > simulation condition, we will teach the participants to use their
> > finger as a guide to know when the glass is full. We also want to
> > incorporate some very basic cane travel and teach participants to
> > either use a sound cue (i.e. a fan) as a navigational aid, count doors
> > on one side of the hallway, or both. Can any of you think of a third
> > task that's (a) possible but tough to do blindfolded and (b) possible
> > to do better with a nonvisual technique that's simple and easy to
> > learn?
> > Thanks!
> > Arielle
> >
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