Tiflologia per l'integrazione (2024). Vol. 2

Visual disability has long been considered the worst sensory deprivation and associated with a stigma of social marginalization or, conversely, with an idea of heroism, linked to the belief that one can replace sight with the other senses. Today, typhlopedagogy encourages a more realistic and less welfarist attitude: it urges early education of the blind to stimulate their processes of conceptual elaboration of reality experienced through sensory perceptions. To this end, we propose to prefere environmental exploration, physical exercise and Montessori- inspired manual activities.