[optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
- From: "H & C Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:01:07 -0400
Good points, Nick, all well stated.
In God We Trust,
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
> Just as it takes time to make sense of a Raised-line graphic which is
> depicting a 3-dimensional world in two. That's where it differs from
> reading print--two dimensional. However, having attended the first
> American
> Association for Advancement of Sciences symposium on tactile graphics, we
> guinea pigs learned to interpolate the various graphics stands they were
> trying to get a handle on the efficacy of, then to answer questions based
> on
> that data we had to extrapolate beyond the data depicted in the baseline
> drawings. Even sighted folks have to learn such skills. In fact the
> deduction of directionality is something one develops over time with
> experience, thus Little Leagues don't expect 8 year olds to be very good
> at
> that so they don't compete against those who are developmentally more
> advanced and can make such inferences... There are enough of we
> congenitally blind persons exceeding the World War II and earlier
> pronouncements regarding what psychologists deem us capable of, that we
> ourselves should judge our individual capabilities individually, measured
> against our motivation to succeed, and willingness to partake of a long
> and
> difficult training regime in which, just as we learned to read print, we
> learn to make useful deductions about the meaning of data being
> communicated
> to us by a new means of expanding our capabilities beyond the hitherto
> accepted expectations of what we can be expected to be capable of...
>
> Nick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rachel" <rachel720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:56 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Seeing with your tongue.
>
>
>> Nick,
>> You make some good points. I certainly would give the device a try
>> if I had the opportunity. I suspect, though, that the congenitally
>> blind would naturally need a lot more training to interpret what they
>> "saw" than an adventitiously blinded person would. But, yeah, I'd
>> give it a try; you bet!
>> Rachel
>>
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