Through Their Eyes: The Meaning of Heritage Site Experiences to Visitors who are Blind or Visually Impaired

Transportation Self-Efficacy and Social Problem-Solving of Persons Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired.

Social problem-solving skills and transportation self-efficacy were assessed for 48 vocational rehabilitation consumers with visual disabilities who required assistance securing work transportation. Social problem solving was at the upper end of the normed average; transportation self-efficacy averaged 101.5 out of 140. Level of vision loss was not associated with score differences; urban resid...

Examining compressed speech listening measure with college students who are visually impaired or blind

Assisting people who are visually impaired

Assisting people who are visually impaired

Interpretation reduces ecological impacts of visitors to world heritage site.

Minimal-impact interpretation is widely used to reduce the ecological impacts of visitors to protected areas. We tested whether verbal appeals and/or role-model demonstrations of minimal-impact behavior by a trained guide reduced noise, litter, and trampling impacts on hiking trails in a subtropical rainforest. Interpretation did reduce impacts significantly. Different interpretive techniques w...