Three systems affect the upright standing posture in humans - visual, vestibular, and somatosensory. It is well known that the visually impaired individuals have bad postural balance. On the other hand, it is a well documented fact that some sports can improve postural balance. Therefore, it is aimed in this study to evaluate the dynamic postural stability in goal-ball athletes. Twenty blind go...

Objectives: The blind and visually disabled people form a predominant group in the disabled society and hence, need greater attention. Most of the rehabilitation therapists, especially occupational therapists, do not focus on this group. Thus, the aim of the study is to shed light on the issue of negligent attitude of rehabilitation therapists, especially occupational therapists, toward blind a...

A tactile rendering system has been developed to create tactile drawings of 3-D scenes for blind people. The representation of 3 dimensions in pictures for the blind has been a long standing problem. The current paper considers spatial concepts by sighted people, by blind people and in the data structures of a computer. The mapping of spatial concepts as pictures in a two dimensional format is ...

There is a great difficulty faced by the blind people who can work with tools like screws, due to similarity in their texture and appearance. Blind people are unable to differentiate tools and thereby they are notable to identify also. Our research article takes up this problem faced by the blind people as primary concern and deals with possible solution for this using OCR in LabVIEW with the h...

The aim of this article is to explore whether people who are blind are as successful in recognising other people's mental states in communicative situations as people who are sighted. In the current investigation, a group of blind and sighted individuals were tested on their first and higher-order ToM abilities to recognise the intentions, feelings and beliefs of people engaged in natural conve...

This paper is a study of the main characteristics of the marital status and family life of old blind people in Croatia, as well as the perception of their position in the family. Another aim is to establish whether segments of the elderly blind population differ significantly in their marital and family status with reference to the following variables: sex, age, place of residence, age at which...

Nowadays technology has been used for numerous purposes and it is still possible to find applications and solutions not explored before that could bring benefits to part of the population that has not received attention from many researches yet. This paper aims to present the main needs of deaf-blind people, their demands and a proposal of a mobile solution to facilitate and expand interpersona...