sensory aids

..properties of touch in the scientific design of tactual displays for a broad class of applications, including sensory aids for the deaf...

..Under noisy conditions, individuals with hearing loss may need to rely on lipreading, even if they have sensory aids (hearing aids, cochlear implants)...

..Under noisy conditions, individuals with hearing loss may need to rely on lipreading, even if they have sensory aids (hearing aids, cochlear implants)...

..This study will use an integrated multidisciplinary approach to examine the interaction between perceptual and cognitive mechanisms in understanding and improving the linguistic skills of hearing impaired children...

..Public Health Relevance: This Public Health Relevance is not available...

..2) Language Structure, Development, and Disorders; and (3) Auditory Perception, Neural Plasticity, and Sensory Aids. Two additional areas will be offered as "feeder" specialties for predoctoral students and postdoctoral ..

..2) Language Structure, Development, and Disorders; and (3) Auditory Perception, Neural Plasticity, and Sensory Aids. Two additional areas will be offered as "feeder" specialties for predoctoral students and postdoctoral ..

..project will be the basis for an application to develop automatic speech intelligibility assessment software that can be used to determine the efficacy of instructional methods, sensory aids or speech training programs for PHI children.

..Information obtained from these new measures should prove useful in selecting sensory aids and in developing intervention programs that are targeted to an individual's specific needs. ..

..Information obtained from these new measures should prove useful in selecting sensory aids and in developing intervention programs that are targeted to an individual's specific needs.

..We conclude that specialized visual areas, once established through visual experience, assist equivalent tactile identification tasks years after the onset of blindness...

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..An additional, health-related advantage of the finger cover is that the forefinger remains clean. We expect that the finger cover will be in practical use in Japan within 1 or 2 years...

..Preliminary data suggest that this device is useful for object avoidance in simple environments...

..The paper describes the earlier work of others and the hardware and software of our system and concludes with indications of how the system may be improved...

..Object recognition did not account for Crus I activation...

..These results also add new evidence that the activity of the occipital lobe in the blind takes its qualitative expression from the character of its new input source, therefore supporting the cortical deference hypothesis...

..The result shows the possibility that the prosody in the typing strength of finger braille can be applied to create an interpreter system for the deafblind...

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..This system is utilized for the purpose of generating optimum halftone patterns on microcapsule paper that can be utilized for the effective generation of tactile graphics...

..These results suggest that visual deprivation speeds up Braille learning and may be associated with behaviorally relevant neuroplastic changes...

..Each dot or combination of dots represents a letter of the alphabet. This Braille system has established itself internationally and formed the basic Braille for all languages...

..It is recommended that appropriate educational facilities, optical and non-optical devices should also be provided particularly for low vision children to enable them achieve their optimal potential in life...

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..9%) and gardening (1.8%). CONCLUSIONS: This study provided baseline figures and a methodology for the Right to Read Alliance to monitor their progress in campaigning for more books to be accessible to visually impaired people...

..05). CONCLUSIONS: Although EVES provide objective benefits to the visually impaired in reading speed and acuity, together with some specific near tasks, some can be performed just as fast using optical magnification...

..All of them could walk along navigation line. And the IC tag information system worked well. Therefore, we have concluded that our system will be a very valuable one to support activities of the visually impaired...

..Using this system, we collected data from four braille readers and quantitatively showed more minute contact force trajectories than those in earlier studies...

..And in order to guide still more smoothly, infrared beacons (optical beacon), which can perform voice guidance, are also used...

..These are common and fully developed devices. The problem is the brain-machine interface (BMI). In this short report, only two substitution systems are discussed, vision and vestibular substitution...

..The present results demonstrate electrotactile perception of complex graphs and provide useful information for improving future versions of tactile displays...

..CONCLUSIONS: The bioptic telescope met the (self-reported) driving needs of the majority of visually impaired drivers in this survey and was found to be a useful aid for tasks requiring resolution of detail...

..Advanced primary open-angle glaucoma has a substantial cost-of-illness, warranting improved management in early stages of disease...

..The paper presents two further strategies for full screen magnification, namely, using multimonitor support and true type fonts for text enlargement...

..Our findings indicate that changes in the functional connectivities in the resting state may be an integrated reflection of general loss and compensatory plasticity when a single sensory modality is deprived...

..It is argued that these responses may represent critical language processing mechanisms normally present in visual cortex...

..The present case supports the results of recent functional imaging studies of the recruitment of striate and prestriate cortex for Braille reading...

..We hope these results will be helpful to the design of visual prosthesis for the rehabilitation of reading abilities...

..The early prescription of CCTVs often helps to preserve the reading ability and should therefore be kept in mind by the physician dealing with low vision patients...

..Visual aids are available for low vision individuals, as are sensory aids for blind persons...

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..After Prof. Heimann of the University of Köln miniaturized and implantable displays might help such people to restore partially their vision. Optical and physiological constraints of such vision aids are discussed...

..These signals are basically used to control the video magnifier. The advantages and usefulness of the adaptive-type video magnifier are discussed in this paper...

..Moreover, our data demonstrate that a subgroup of early blind participants is more efficient than controls in conveying visual information through the tongue...

..Our data further show that the tongue can act as a portal to convey somatosensory information to visual cortex...

..7 to 13.0 s. The Bank of Canada selected one of the four raised-texture designs for inclusion on its new banknote series. Other potential applications include designing haptic displays for teleoperation and virtual environment systems...

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..The development of the acrylic bright field magnifier and LED-illuminated LVDs have had particular clinical impact...

..Twenty-six blind persons conducted the tests and the evaluation results have shown the degree of acceptance of the technology and the feasibility of the proposed approach...

..Because the waiting-list control patients demonstrated a decline in functional ability, low-vision services should be offered as early as possible. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00223756...

..This is expected to improve the patient's quality of life...

..RecognizeCane is equipped with several sensors and microprocessors to collect sensor data and extract the desired information about the close environment by means of a dynamic analysis of output signals...

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..Most visually impaired people do not realize this problem. Ophthalmologists, opticians, low-vision-, orientation- and mobility-trainers are recommended for rehabilitation...

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..The parallel development of prosthetic vision theory, explored via simulation and bioengineering issues surrounding neurostimulator design and implantation has bearing on the success of clinical trials by numerous groups in coming years...

..Results from this testing has identified informative image processing operations which lead to improved understanding of picture content...

..This LED array is bonded to a CMOS driver circuit performing a miniaturized display by using flip-chip-technique. Thus each LED pixel can be driven separately and the generated light passes the substrate...

..Special optics are used to focus the light from the LED array onto light sensitized cells...

..When the sonar translates or rotates to scan a foliage surface, the vibrational patterns are related to the surface scatterer distribution, allowing the user to identify the foliage...

..The set of range data is transmitted to a PC, which utilizes the information to build a spatialized audio map of the surrounding obstacles. The hardware and software layout for the system are described in this paper...