Big Idea: Blind Person
Refined Essential Question: How blind person get entertainment?
Refined Challenge: Support newly late-blind people in adapting of orientation and mobility in their daily life.
Blindness is a visual impairment that can occur at different stages of life, a person can be said to be blind if the person's visual acuity is less than 6 meters. Blindness consists of two main categories: early blind individuals and late blind individuals. Early blind individuals are those who have experienced vision loss from birth or a very young age. They have typically grown up with visual impairment, and as a result, they often acquire adaptive skills, such as Braille literacy and mobility techniques, during childhood and adolescence. Meanwhile, late blind individuals are those who lose their sight later in life, often during adulthood, due to various factors such as medical conditions, accidents, or age-related degeneration. Unlike early blind individuals, late blind individuals must adapt to vision loss after having experienced a period of sighted life.
For blind people, entertainment remains a part of their daily lives, because it is one of the elements of restoring quality of life. Based on our interviews, we found that entertainment is not a dominant issue for people with visual impairments. There is no difference in the types of entertainment enjoyed by blind and sighted individuals, though adaptations may need to be made in order to make certain forms of entertainment more accessible. Overall, the resilience and adaptability shown by blind individuals reflect their ability to lead fulfilling lives and enjoy various forms of entertainment despite their visual impairments, especially for late blind people. Some of the main aspects that they often need to adapt are Orientation and Mobility, Daily Living Skills, Communication, etc. Each of these adaptation processes can be obtained through special training for the blind. Orientation and mobility are adaptations that are difficult for most people who are newly blind. Based on research results, people who have just become blind will usually have difficulty adapting to their orientation and mobility such as difficulty picking up things or difficulty walking.
Thus, the resilience and adaptability shown by individuals across this spectrum reflect their ability to deal with the challenges of vision loss and lead fulfilling lives in their communities.
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