| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
AZUMA Noriaki Iwate Univ., Faculty of Education, Fukuoka University Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (30132228)
SAIBA Mitoshi Saga Medical School, Fukuoka University Professor, 教授 (30264170)
FUKUSHIMA Tetsuhito School of Medicine, Fukuoka University Associate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (90208942)
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of the present study is to understand the meaning of the sensory recognition and adaptation to daily life for subjects who lost sight
In the former part of study, we designed the participatory experiment to simulate the blind people's situation by wearing an eye mask. Three situations were stepwisely tested. At first, the subject just sit sbill and experience the blindness. At second, the subject is encouraged to walk. At third, some small object is given in front of the subject. The subject use his hand to touch, feel and think about the object. During the research period, three experimental situations were repeatedly tried for subjects. The subjects included were medical students at Fukuoka University and educational students at lwate University. As the result of three years' trials, sensory recognition, especially the tactile awareness was suggested to be a important factor that assist adaptation to daily life. In order to confirm and further investigate the present finding, the experimental protocols were assembled and the first version of participatory experiment was offered to experience and learn the blind peoples' initial hardships just after the sudden visual loss and also the following life related stages.
In the latter part of the study, we analysed the details of communication of a blind subject. Mr. S is a worker employed by a company. At his age of over 40, Mr. S suddenly lost.his vision. However, because of his will and mobility training, he returned to his previous job. In this case study, Mr. S was observed in two situations, as a guest speaker at the lecture room of a medical school, and as a fully employed staff at his company. Mr. S's way of communicating was videotaped and analysed. At the lecture room, students' evaluations were also obtained by structured questionnaire. At both situations, Mr. S's communicative attitude was shown to affect other people's way of communication around him.
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