Blind Boy Research Articles

Beeper Ball Puts Blind Boy in the Batter's Box

Beeper Ball Puts Blind Boy in the Batter's Box

Is Mobility Feasible with: A Blind Girl with Leg Braces and Crutches? A Deaf-Blind Girl with a Tested I.Q. of 50? A Blind Boy with an I.Q. of 51?

Is Mobility Feasible with: A Blind Girl with Leg Braces and Crutches? A Deaf-Blind Girl with a Tested I.Q. of 50? A Blind Boy with an I.Q. of 51?

Blind Boy and Romanticist

Blind Boy and Romanticist

Sound in the Plays of Buero Vallejo

Antonio Buero Vallejo, author of serious and deeply moving philosophical and psychological plays, is recognized as one of the most outstanding dramatists in Spain today.x Endowed with an innate sense of theater, he is an original craftsman who utilizes fully all the resources of dramatic art. One interesting and revealing aspect of his art is his use of sound, which is an important dramatic element in all of his two-and three-act plays performed and published between 1949 and 1955 except the first, La historia de una escalera (1949). An analysis of his use of sound as music and of non-musical sound, chronologically by plays, brings to light significant changes in technique indicative of increasing maturity. Music is introduced in the most strikingly dramatic and symbolic manner in En la ardiente oscuridad (1950). Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is played over the loudspeaker of the school for the blind from the moment when the destructive influence of the new student, Ignacio, begins to be felt. The sonata, which creates a powerful mood of melancholy and despair, is an excellent musical accompaniment for the bitterness and loneliness of Ignacio, the growing uneasiness and unhappiness of the students, who sense the breakdown of the intimate bond between them, and the weakening of their moral de acero as a result of Ignacio's attacks on their optimistic philosophy of life. In Act II Ignacio defiantly rejects Carlos' plea that he cease destroying the morale of the students. Left alone on stage, Ignacio whistles melancholically a few notes of the sonata. The choice of the music of Beethoven, the tragic grappler with fate to whom music was a vehicle of expression of emotion, and of this particular piece of music, is very effective. Throughout the sonata there is a persistent feeling of agitation, distress, and urgency, and of indefinable loneliness and anguish. Popular legend has it that the sonata was inspired in part by a blind boy. In Act III Grieg's Death of Aase, played on a silent stage while off stage Carlos is killing Ignacio, expresses with poignant intensity the deep pathos of the situation. This selection, from the Peer Gynt Suite, composed at Ibsen's request for a stage adaptation of his Peer Gynt and therefore closely attuned to its mood and thought, suggests a slight and ironical parallel between Peer and Carlos in their futile effort to defend themselves from reality and its disturbing problems. Peer's fertile poetic imagination creates the wild fantasy of himself as the driver of a chariot which

Rate of Motion and Object Perception in the Blind

The present study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between rate of motion of a blind observer and his ability to perceive obstacles. The subject was a totally blind boy of 11 years who was instructed to ride his bicycle over a course in which two movable obstacles had been placed. After 40 trials without a collision, the subject was instructed to ride as swiftly as he could. Forty additional trials were given. The results showed only four collisions, and one of those was during the higher speed trials. Thus, the results indicate that for this boy, higher speeds do not impair object perception.

Salama Musa, An Appreciation of His Autobiography

Writing an autobiography is a difficult undertaking, if only because it requires intellectual maturity. I mean by autobiography the kind of writing through which a man, arrived at a certain age, would look at his life and try to understand himself as he was at the age of ten, twenty and so on, in the light of his experience as a whole. In this sense, Taha Husain has not, I think, written an autobiography, but merely the story of a blind boy who happens to be himself, a story which presents not so much a compact unity, as a succession of lyrical sketches with the author himself as the central hero. The writing of an autobiography is, moreover, different from the writing of memoirs and the keeping of day-to-day diaries, because the events and accidents of one's life, although important in themselves, can only make sense when they are linked together by an effort of the intelligence and the imagination to make elements of a pattern which can be clearly discerned. To write an autobiography, then, is to make a sustained effort to reflect on the incidents of one's life, in order to distil from them a meaning and a sequence. It is with this definition in mind that I consider Salama Mius's book of great significance and importance for Arabic literature and thought. Salama Miisa, although well aware of the difficulties of writing

Blind Boy Receives Scholarship

Blind Boy Receives Scholarship

Blind Boy Heads His Class

Blind Boy Heads His Class

VI. Additional Communications respecting the Blind and Deaf Boy, James Mitchell

The following circumstances respecting the Blind and Deaf Boy, James Mitchell, have come to my knowledge since the publication of Professor Stewart's Memoir; and I doubt not but the Society will think them worthy of being recorded. They are derived from the most accurate and authentic of all sources, the boy's sister, Miss Mitchell.In the month of April 1814, Mr Parker, an English gentleman, (distinguished, as I have since learned, for his active benevolence,) did me the honour to wait upon me, to communicate a plan for the instruction of young Mitchell, which had some time before occurred to him, and which he was very desirous should be put to the test of experiment. This method seemed in no respect inconsistent with those principles which in all circumstances appear to regulate the acquisition of language; and I therefore expressed my willingness, to promote, by every means in my power, the object which Mr Parker had in view.