Uses of other senses which make the blind and low vision move from one place to another place

1. ROLE OF OTHER SENSE IN
ORIENTATION AND
MOBILITY
BY:
POOVEITHA. K,
19USDV009.

2. SENSE :
• A specialized function or
mechanism (such as sight,
hearing, smell, taste, or touch)
by which an animal and human,
receives and responds to
external or internal stimuli

3. SENSE OF HEARING
• Everyday sounds can provide many clues about your
surroundings.
• The sense of hearing provides the greatest compensation for the
loss of vision.
• It is important to train the person to have a perception sense of
hearing.

4. AUDITORY
• Sound Alignment
• Sound discrimination
• Sound localization
• Sound identification

5. SOUND ALIGNMENT
• The ability to determine
moving sounds, where it is
going and how fast it is
moving.

6. SOUND DISCRIMINATION
• The ability to select from
among the many sounds in the
environment, the one sound
which will useful for mobility

7. SOUND LOCALIZATION
• Specific place where the
sound is coming from

8. SOUND IDENTIFICATION
• To given name to something
that is making the sound.

9. SENSE OF TOUCH
• Like the sense of hearing, the sense of touch also need to be
developed.
• You have to train the visually impaired person to understand the
textures of various objects.

10. TOUCH AWARENESS
• Tactile discrimination
• Tactile identification
• Tactile Analysis

11. TACTILE DISCRIMINATION
• Using the sense of touch to
identify difference in the
tactile surface

12. TACTILE IDENTIFICATION
• Using touch to identify the
objects

13. TACTILE ANALYSIS
• The small tasks are presented
to the blind person in
sequence , one at a time and
they form a series of steps
through which he can
accomplish the task.

15. KINESTHETIC SENSE
• Knowledge of the movement and position of the body
• for example when you bend, reach for a door handle, walk, or
turn around.

16. KINESTHETIC AWARENESS
• Direction and degree of turn
• Perception of Slop and tilt
• Measurements and distance
• Veering

17. DIRECTION AND DEGREE OF TURN

18. PERSEPTION OF SLOPE AND TILT

19. MEASUREMENT AND DISTANCE

20. VEERING

21. SENSE OF SMELL
• The sense of smell is also help in providing orientation to the
person with visual impairment.
• The smell of gutter, the smoke from a chemical factory, the smell
of flower in a garden, the smell from the kitchen are source of
information about their location.

22. SENSE OF TASTE:
• The development of their sense though Important, is not directly
related to orientation and mobility.
• Through this sense, the person with visual impairment Is able to
associate the names of the substance with their taste.
• For example; sweet, sour, salty et...

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