Leisure Activities For The Blind

Recreation and leisure skills may include traditional as well as adapted physical education activities.

Leisure activities for the blind.

The library of congress offers a free braille and talking book program that sends out a special player with a memory stick and a catalog regularly. Some games can be played over the web while others have a screen reader with a speech synthesizer to read the screen. A variety of leisure activities for the blind are available in terms of computer games. However as with social interaction skills visually impaired students need help identifying the array of choices available to them in this area and must be taught how to perform leisure skills that most students learn through observation.

There are many recreation and leisure activities that can be adapted for people who are blind or have low vision or for seniors who are losing their sight. There are many hiking trails or walking paths in parks that are accessible to blind people. Recreation and leisure is an expanded core curriculum area. Hobbies for blind and low vision seniors my mother is legally blind.

Recreation and leisure activities can reduce isolation and encourage independence in children who are deaf blind. The list includes information about different recreational activities and some description to help you understand what these activities entail. Most blind people use walking canes and are used to walking around the city streets while staying on the sidewalk. Nightwatch by errol broome little girl chippy attends the local school.

The blind can do activities that focus on the movement of their bodies too such exercising walking and hiking swimming or martial arts. This factsheet describes strategies for promoting recreational activities and setting the stage for successful participation. Outdoor activities for the blind that include spending time in nature can come in many forms. Practice imagining physical space can give blind people an advantage in crafting intricate models or building mechanical and electrical devices.

You may want to return to an activity you ve always enjoyed or you may want to try something new challenging and altogether different such as scrabble running continued. Her heightened awareness of sound smell and space uncovers foul play. Mar 2 2018 on this board we describe products from the american printing house for the blind aph as well as additional useful resources that promote the development of recreational and leisure activities that people who are blind or visually impaired can enjoy throughout their lives. The island of the colour blind by oliver sacks the story of the small pacific atoll of pingelap where a congenital mishap led to most of the island s inhabitants being color blind.