[nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue

[Rania Ismail CMT]

Agree with what has been said.
We also don't need things like a Braille yoga mat. The mat isn't going to
tell us how to get in and out of a yoga pose.
Rania,

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Hi Justin,
I totally agree with you. That's why I think the technology engineers
need to really focus in on only those problems we haven't already
solved. For instance as you aptly point out, we don't need gadgets to
get around our own homes because we've come up with plenty of
techniques for that. But we don't yet have a good technique for
reading signs from far away so that's something a gadget might be able
to help us with.
Engineers need to ask us what access gaps still haven't been filled
and listen to what we have to say, instead of just designing things
that sound good to them.
Arielle

On 5/23/12, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonboy13 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> True, the sighted people in engineering often want to develop things for
> blind people to use, but very few of them know blind people to ask, or
know
>
> of any professionals on blind people that could answer their questions. I
> think the root of the problem is that there aren't enough of us to go
around
>
> and the professionals or people informed about blindness are even more
rare
>
> than we are.
> I have often brought up to my college that they should start a TVI program
> and they kind of chuckle and ask me where I'll find the teachers... But
> there are so many students who are going in to special Ed that have heard
of
>
> being a teacher of the blind, but they know nothing about it. There is one
> or two places in the special Ed program that talk about blindness related
> subjects in passing, but that is often very small and obscure.
> I wonder if there could be a project/class system  or something that could
> be developed that a blind student could take to their college that teaches
> people a little about what it's like working with blind people. That way
> colleges may start taking notice of this important field and make it a
part
>
> of the class catalogue. The information just needs to get out there to the
> public.
> The best way for myths about blindness to be dispelled is for a TV show
with
>
> a blind person as the lead, acting as a blind person, to go on the air.
But
>
> idk of very many directors who would be able to find someone who could
write
>
> a good pilot script or direct the movie to show a blind person as they
> really are.
> Blindness is like Opera, people truly just don't know about it! (Les Miz
and
>
> Phantom are NOT OPERA and Dare devil and all those other blind movie
> characters aren't blind!
> Thank you,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Salisbury
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:41 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue
>
> I think some of you are focusing on the technology and its possible uses.
> What made me want to post this article were the philosophies on blindness
> expressed in the article and news story.
>
> In no connection to the previous discussion of cancer on this thread, I
feel
>
> like the researchers think their discovery is analogous to finding a cure
> for cancer when they come up with this technology.  They appear to me to
be
>
> trying to tackle tasks that any graduate of an NFB training center can
> already handle.  If I don't know what is on the counter in front of me, I
> reach out and touch it.  Let them research whatever they want to research,
> but I think these people are marked by a profound misunderstanding of
> blindness.
>
> I don't try to fix the fact that I'm blind (as if it's something wrong
with
>
> me); I try to fix the misunderstandings about blindness.
>
> Justin
>
> Justin M. Salisbury
> Class of 2012
> B.A. in Mathematics
> East Carolina University
> president at alumni.ecu.edu
>
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change
>
> the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."    -MARGARET MEAD
>
>
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