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Is Blindness a Handicap?
Author(s) -
Tobin Michael J.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8527.t01-1-00069
Subject(s) - blindness , psychology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , optometry , medicine
Michael J. Tobin, Professor of Special Education at The University of Birmingham, argues that the handicapping effects of blindness are specific to certain educational and social contexts. These situations can be identified: the most substantive difficulties being the availability of convergent and complementary information through the various sensory channels, and the depressed speeds of information processing.