Haptic Diagrams and Related Text for Human Biology/Health Science Curricular for the Blind and Visually Impaired

中学一级缺乏适当的人类生物学/健康科学教育材料，这些材料有效地传达了视觉障碍者仅凭口头描述难以概念化的信息。这个项目的目标是缓解这种短缺。这是通过卫生科学和特殊教育学院之间的合作来实现的，该学院已建立，以创建和正式评估一系列创新的教学辅助工具，这些辅助工具以触觉图表的形式附有盲文和音频文本。这些材料将有助于提高健康科学教育的质量和效果。它提供学生一个机会，积极参与他们的学习过程，通过触摸探索的说明性材料，旨在提高他们对人体的结构，功能和健康维护的理解。相关文本将减少对监督教学的需要，从而培养视障学生的独立学习。视力正常的学生也将从中受益，从而鼓励盲人学生与视力正常的同龄人之间的互动，这是主流教育长期追求的目标。该项目的结果将通过全国会议的方式分发给所有美国视障人士资源中心。

A paucity of appropriate human biology/health science educational materials exists at the secondary school level which effectively conveys information difficult for the visually impaired to conceptualize based on a verbal description alone. The goal of this project is to alleviate this shortage. This is being accomplished through a collaboration between health science and special education faculty which has been established to create and formally assess a collection of innovative teaching aids in the form of haptic diagrams accompanied by brailled and audio texts. This material will serve to improve the quality and effectiveness of health science education. It provides students an opportunity to actively participate in their learning process through tactual exploration of illustrative material designed to enhance their understanding of the structure, function and health maintenance of the human body. The related texts will diminish the need for supervised instruction, thus fostering independent learning on the part of the visually impaired student. Sighted students will benefit as well, thus encouraging interaction among blind students and their sighted peers, a long-sought goal of mainstreamed education. The results of this project will be disseminated to all U. S. Resource Centers for the Visually Handicapped by means of a national conference.