[Nfb-science] Nfb-science Digest, Vol 138, Issue 8

[Steven K Howard]

Hi Kennedy -- So glad you have the opportunity to do a dissection in your anatomy class.  My daughter is visually a impaired high school senior -- legally but not totally blind -- and has dissected organs before (heart, heart-lung, eyeball).  She has never done a whole animal.  It has helped her to have her own specimen so she can get REALLY close.  So this is a little unchartered territory for me.  I have some suggestions:


  1.  Read the night before what the dissection assignment is and familiarize yourself with the anatomy "in the book."
  2.  If you are partially sighted, you can try to use a lighted magnifier (like a jeweler or a person who ties flies for fly fishing).  Not a hand held one unless you can afford to get it dirty/stinky!
  3.  Have lab partners who understand and are willing and WANT to help you.
  4.  Discuss issues with your professor
  5.  Use your fingers and metal probes to feel the particular parts that you are dissecting.
  6.  However you have been able to accommodate in your other science-based classes might also translate to dissection.  How do you visualize complex math or physics?


I would love to hear about your successes!  Anatomy was my absolute FAVORITE subject in school and my daughter really likes it too!  Feel free to contact me as well!


Best, Steve


Steven K. Howard, MD

Staff Physician - Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care Service

VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Professor - Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

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Hello, friends,

My name is Kennedy Stomberg, and I am taking a course in Intigrated Human Anatomy this term. As part of this course, we have to dissect a cat. I am wondering if anyone on the list has experience with performing dissections as a blind person?  Were you able to perform the dissections? What tools/accommidations did you use? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance! :)
Kennedy

Kennedy Stomberg

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