Self-Esteem and Adjusting with Blindness: The Process of Responding to Life??s Demands, 2nd ed.

Dornbusch, Helen

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“…Music is a field of art that enables individuals with visual impairment to apply other senses actively, such as the auditory sense. It represents a field that can be enjoyed by individuals with visual impairment to a level identical to individuals with normal vision (Tuttle and Tuttle, 2004). In fact, a considerable number of individuals with visual impairment have been reported to use music not only for personal enjoyment but also as an effective means of empathy with others (Molloy-Daugherty, 2013) and of social communication (Wolffe and Sacks, 1997;Robb, 2003).…”

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“…Thus, individuals with visual impairment may experience limited ability to acquire information as well as physical threat, psychological anxiety, feelings of helplessness and isolation, and a severed relationship with the outside world. Visual impairments pose a challenge to individuals in terms of social behaviors, the learning of which mostly requires observation and imitation; and discomfort in communicating or empathizing with individuals who have normal vision, and this may limit their chance to participate in the society or form interpersonal relationships (Codding, 2000;Tuttle and Tuttle, 2004;Sacks and Rosenblum, 2006;Alma et al, 2012). Carroll (1961), a renowned educator of individuals with visual impairment in the United States, said, "Loss of sight is dying, " thus defining visual impairment as a severe form of loss.…”

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The Meaning of Musicing in the Post-traumatic Growth of Individuals With Adventitious Visual Impairment: Applying the Life History Method by Mandelbaum

Park

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This study investigated individuals with adventitious visual impairment (AVI) acquired during adulthood through a traumatic event, for an in-depth and contextual understanding of the factors and processes that led to positive changes in their post-traumatic growth. The life history method was applied on 15 individuals with AVI (seven males and eight females) through in-depth interviews about their life. The study’s analytical framework involved three domains: dimensions, turnings, and adaptations of life, as proposed by Mandelbaum. The results revealed the following key factors: of the dimensions of life—family, rehabilitation center, and music groups; of turnings of life—positive change through awareness and tolerance of impairments, new challenge posed by rehabilitation training, and finding inner resources through music; and of adaptations of life—accepting one’s life in a harsh social environment, actively establishing relationships with others as an individual with visual impairment, and re-finding meaning of life through musicing. This study contributes by revealing the role of each of the above-mentioned factors and identifying their correlations. The results suggest that musicing may help individuals with AVI develop empathy and engage in social communication through active self-disclosure.

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The Meaning of Musicing in the Post-traumatic Growth of Individuals With Adventitious Visual Impairment: Applying the Life History Method by Mandelbaum

Park

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…In India alone, the population of BVIP is around 62 million [1]. BVIP rely on various assistive solutions to overcome difficulties in independent adaptability involving their professional and social activities [2]. However, the AAA factor, i.e., Availability, Affordability, and Awareness related to assistive technologies, in general, are comparatively better in developed countries 1 https://www.lasereyesurgeryhub.co.uk/data/visual-impairmentblindness-data-statistics/ [3].…”

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IPCRF: An End-to-End Indian Paper Currency Recognition Framework for Blind and Visually Impaired People

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Currency recognition has always been a troublesome task for blind and visually impaired people (BVIP). The problem is more severe in developing countries such as India, where there is still a lack of robust currency recognition systems. BVIP primarily relies on size variations and patterns such as intaglio printings for recognizing the underlying currency denominations. Most of the current Indian legal tenders resemble in size, thus making the identification process more strenuous. Also, the engraved patterns are not as distinctive as BVIP standards, and they fade over time. For an automated paper currency recognition system, issues such as folded or partial views, uneven illumination, and background clutter make it non-trivial and challenging. This paper ventures to present an end-to-end and robust framework for assisting BVIP in recognizing the Indian paper currency denomination. This paper presents a lightweight network, IPCRNet, useful in a resource-constrained environment such as low/medium level smartphones. The proposed network is based on Dense connection, Multi-Dilation, and Depth-wise separable convolution layers. Additionally, we congregated one of the most diversified Indian paper currency image dataset with more than 50,000 images belonging to almost all denominations in circulation. A customized and publically available android application, "Roshni-Currency recognizer", has also been introduced. The experimental results on multiple datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model. IPCRNet improves the classification accuracy by more than 2% on the proposed dataset compared to the state-of-the-art networks.

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Currency Recognition App for Blind People

Sinthuja,

Pravinthraja,

ManiSekhar

et al. 2024

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Self-Esteem and Adjusting with Blindness: The Process of Responding to Life??s Demands, 2nd ed.

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The Meaning of Musicing in the Post-traumatic Growth of Individuals With Adventitious Visual Impairment: Applying the Life History Method by Mandelbaum

The Meaning of Musicing in the Post-traumatic Growth of Individuals With Adventitious Visual Impairment: Applying the Life History Method by Mandelbaum

IPCRF: An End-to-End Indian Paper Currency Recognition Framework for Blind and Visually Impaired People

Currency Recognition App for Blind People

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