{"product_id":"drawing-and-the-blind-pictures-to-touch-9780300054903","title":"Drawing and the Blind: Pictures to Touch","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking work explores how children and adults who have been blind since birth can both perceive and draw pictures. John M. Kennedy  a perception psychologist  relates how pictures in raised form can be understood by the blind  and how untrained blind people can make recognizable sketches of objects  situations  and events using new methods for raised-line drawing. According to Kennedy  the ability to draw develops in blind people as it does in the sighted. His book gives detailed descriptions of his work with the blind  includes many pictures by blind children and adults  and provides a new theory of visual and tactile perceptionapplicable to both the blind and the sightedto account for his startling findings.  Kennedy argues that space perception is possible through touch as well as through sight  and aspects of perspective are found in pictures by the blind. He shows that blind people recognize when pictures of objects are drawn incorrectly. According to Kennedy  the incorrect features are often deliberate attempts to represent properties of objects that cannot be shown in a picture. These metaphors  as Kennedy describes them  can be interpreted by the blind and the sighted in the same way.  Kennedys findings are vitally important for studies in perceptual and cognitive psychology  the philosophy of representation  and education. His conclusions have practical significance as well  offering inspiration and guidelines for those who seek to engineer ways to allow blind and visually impaired people to gain access to information only available in graphs  figures  and pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646942175285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300054904","price":71.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300054903.jpg?v=1781682619","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/drawing-and-the-blind-pictures-to-touch-9780300054903","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}