language‚ by Samuel Gridley Howe‚ her teacher. Howe tried to teach her how to talk‚ but he did not succeed and gave up. The only words she could say were “doctor‚” “ship‚” “pie‚” and “baby‚” but she mostly just made noises. With sign language and braille‚ she learned how to spell and read to help her communicate. Laura’s only sense that worked perfectly was her sense of touch. She could tell people’s moods by touching their face or by the way they took her hand. Laura could recognize anyone from the
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Blind People in China. There are 5 million blind people in the whole world. And China is taking the first place of this problem. China accounts about 18% of blind people. Most of them can’t live independent; they all need someone’s help. Also we can know that 90% of blind people are living in modern cities. For example: Beijing (capital)‚ Shanghai and etc. Тhe total number of blind people in China at any given time expressed as a percentage of the total population -- is around 0.4%. According
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I hear it‚ the cane click clacking down the corridor. Soon she will find her way to D-105. Between the click clacking of the cane‚ she pauses and I know she is checking the Braille bumps on the window panes‚ searching for the room that marks the spot. Blind since birth and born as a preemie‚ Maycie can smell me before she knows I’m in front of her. Her senses are so keen. Her sound‚ smell‚ and taste radar are sharper than the sharpest tool in a shed. "Hi Sheila
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Assignments in Communicative English Class-IX (Term-I) Section A: Reading (Unseen Passages with MCQs) ASSIGNMENT A-1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : How does television affect our lives? It can be very helpful to people who carefully choose the shows that they watch. Television can increase our knowledge of the outside world; there are high quality programmes that help us understand many fields of study‚ science‚ medicine‚ the arts and so on. Moreover‚ television
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continuous efforts. A patient with strong determination can get cured earlier or live longer than a similar patient with weak will power. Helen Killer was both blind and deaf‚ but she became an educator of the blind. Louis Braille was also a blind educationist. He introduced the Braille script for the blind. Sudha Chandran has an amputated leg‚ but even with the artificial limb‚ she has become a famous Bharatnatyam dancer and actress. Thus‚ a person of strong will power can overcome physical disabilities
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READING: I. READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUSETIONS: Sonu saw the yellow butterfly in his garden. He ran and caught the butterfly. But it looked sad in Sonu’s hand. He let the butterfly go. It sat on the red rose. It flew to the peach tree and then sailed on a lotus leaf. It flew merrily from flower to flower. Sonu watched it fly and fly. 1. Where did Sonu First see the butterfly ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Turkish Journal of Psychiatry 2011 Depression and anxiety levels and self-concept characteristics of adolescents with congenital complete visual impairment • Nurullah BOLAT1‚ Burak DOĞANGÜN2‚ Mesut YAVUZ3‚ Türkay DEMİR4‚ Levent KAYAALP5 SUMMARY Objective: Previous studies have reported that visual impairment can affect the mental health of children and adolescents. The aim of this study is to investigate the depression and anxiety levels and the self-concept characteristics of adolescents
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going through speech therapy‚ and in the end reached goal‚ and ended up soaring way beyond to build more than 50 wells ever since. But‚ the person that probably needed to keep going through even though his life had been changed dramatically was Louis Braille. Think about it‚ he was blind‚ and he changed the world when he was just a kid. But‚ the true determination wasn’t just this‚ it was much more. His language wasn’t used until after he was dead. Even though he was blind‚ and disabled he had to keep
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for the blind people. One such example is the electronic eyes. They could tell the blind about the white stripes of the pedestrian cross walk and ensures safety to cross the road. It just like wearing a pair of electronic eyes. Another one is the braille PDA`s which help the blind people to use standard computers and PDA devices.I have also heard about the devices which are created for deaf people. They improve the lives of the physically challenged people to a great extent. The house wares are the
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day her dark world was opened to this present day. She has installed so much hope and faith for the world of the blind and deaf that she will forever be remembered. Helen has given the blind and deaf communities a universe of possibilities. From Braille being accepted in 1932 as the world’s standard alphabet for the blind‚ to sign language and speech lessons for the deaf and blind. She has also made it capable for the blind and the deaf to go to a regular college and even graduate with flying colors
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