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Background: Blindness is a highly limiting disability affecting tens of millions of individuals worldwide.One of the current challenges in sight restoration and sensory aids for blind pertains to the possible visualacuity and capacity which can be transmitted through various restoration approaches. Compensation forsensory handicap by blind individual has been a subject of study and debate. Objects can be recognized byusing any of our sensory modalities. But, the inputs about physical characteristics of a particular objectperceived by vision and touch are unique and complex. Hence, in a blind individual, development ofexceptional compensatory abilities in remaining senses in distinction to becoming severely handicappeddue to the lack of the calibrating visual modality may look like a distant theoretical possibility.Aims: To compare tactile sensation among blind and sighted individuals.Materials and Methods: 85 subjects in between age group of 18-27 years. Study Group-Consisted of total21adventitiously(not congenitally blind) blind subjects. Control Group-Consisted of total 64 apparentlyhealthy sighted subjects.Statistical Analysis used: Results had been analysed using unpaired test by SPSS version 16.Results: It was observed that mean values for two point discrimination on horizontal and longitudinalaxes, mean values of the time taken for letter identification was significantly lower in the blind group thanthe sighted group.Conclusions: Results of the present study showed that the non sighted group outperformed theperformance of the sighted group.Keywords: Blindness, Tactile sensation, Sighted individuals.

Comparison of tactile sensation among blind and sighted individuals