Eighteen blind and visually handicapped persons participated in this study to determine how well they could learn the Continental method of eating, one thought to be more easily mastered and used than the American technique. After a two-week course, in which every detail of the technique was carefully described, demonstrated, and then practiced by the subjects, it was found that 13 of the 18 persons had mastered the method extremely well.
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