COLORFUL BRIDGE
Build a colorful bridge between visually impaired children and sighted children
Helping and Communicating with Visually Impaired Children
Making opportunities for visually impaired children to interact in
BACKGROUND
WHO Research On Visual Impairment Children
According to WHO'S data, the number of people with visual impairment or blindness in the world is as high as more than 2.2 billion, and at least 1 billion people's strength injury problems can be prevented and solved.
Among them, there are 19 million children with visual impairment in the world. If they are treated in time, 70% to 80% can be prevented and treated.
Physical therapy: some children with visual impairment can recover part of their vision and live a normal life.
Is the mental health of visually impaired children also being concerned?
CONCLUSION
RESEARCH
The Process of Cognitive Development Between Visually Impaired Children And Un-visually Impaired Children
Characteristics of Visually Impaired Childen
CONCLUSION
The visually impaired children have some differences from ordinary children in personality and behavior due to their own vision defects.
Visually impaired children have a better sense of hearing and touch than ordinary children, and their ability to concentrate is also excellent
Two learning models for visually impaired children
Advantages
Experienced teachers and experts
Complete equipment
Collective learning atmosphere
Students who can imitate
Central Mode
Disadvantages
High-cost
Limitations in making friends with other children
Complete equipment
Difficult for each child to get a timely response from the others
Advantages
Warm family environment
Close parent and child relationship
Learn interpersonal skills from parents
Disadvantages
Lack of collective atmosphere
Not professional
The effect of the intervention can not be guaranteed
May be missing the best opportunity to help children
Family Mode
CONCLUSION
Both the family model and the central model have advantages and disadvantages.
Children can't stay in special schools or at home all the time.
The excessive protection of parents and schools cannot help children integrate into society well in the future.
The Ability to Visually Impaired Children to Adapt to Society
CONCLUSION
Visually impaired children have limited mobility due to visual defects, which impact their personality characteristics.
They have many problems with social adaptability.
The Ability to Visually Impaired Children to Adapt to Society
CONCLUSION
Visually impaired children will be aware of their own differences in the growth process of their psychological development.
Paying attention to the psychological development of visually impaired children is vital to their growth.
-Help visually impaired children grow up happily.
-Help them integrate better into society.
Learn from their parents how to socialize: it is difficult for visually impaired children to socialize.
A good family environment: parents can effectively guide children to become friends with other children of the same age.
Social interaction is significant for visually impaired children:
1) Conducive to children's physical and mental health
2) Help visually impaired children prepare for their future integration into society.
CONCLUSION
INTERVIEW
IDEATION
Helping and Communicating with Visually Impaired Children
Increase opportunities for visually impaired children to interact with other children through entertainment activities. At the same time, it enhances the self-confidence of visually impaired children. Help them to integrate into society better; And let more people really understand them. No longer feel that they are a special group and stay away from them.
Show the advantages of visually impaired children
Toys for visually impaired children
Visually impaired children have good hearing and touch. Therefore, visually impaired children can use their "strengths" to interact with others. These "advantages" can enhance the interaction of visually impaired children with others and enhance their self-confidence.
1) Fewer toys for visually impaired children
2) Not many functions
3) Few toys specifically designed for socializing with visually impaired children
Proposal
The design is based on visually impaired children's advantages-"touch" and "hearing."
Allow visually impaired children to interact with other children through puzzles and music creation through offline and online methods.
There are two game modes:
1) Puzzle Contact learning children can assemble puzzles to learn the shape of objects.
Listening learning children can learn the sounds of objects by clicking on puzzles
2)Music The game interacts through assembly and music creation. The created music can be uploaded online to interact with other users.
Suitable for visually impaired children and ordinary children of different ages in kindergartens. Visually impaired children can make more friends through this product. Increase their social
activities and self-confidence.
Parents of visually impaired children can also communicate with other parents and teachers on this app.
Where They Use
Online
Offline
Play with remote children who have the same toys
Home
School
Community
Testing And Process
DESIGN
Offline Mode
Visually impaired children can interact with games through several different gameplay methods.
Parents can learn and play with their children.
Children can also play with other children. It can also be connected with other children's boards.
The game has different levels of difficulty, which can be adjusted according to the child’s level.
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Parents
Brochure
-Based on the fact that many people still lack the correct understanding and cognition of visually impaired children
-Lack of professional knowledge about the life and education of visually impaired children with parents
-Breaking people's psychological distance between themselves and the visually impaired, ignoring the value of the life
of the visually impaired, and their unexpected potential.
Brochure- Perfect binding
1; A brief introduction to visually impaired children
2; what should parents and teachers do
3; the right mentality to communicate with them
4. Imagine if you are in the same environment as them, can you live like them?
