The author presents her experiences in teaching a class on pregnancy and childbirth to students in a school for the blind and visually impaired. Because many students were ignorant about anatomy, she spent much more time than she anticipated in teaching the basics. Techniques she found helpful were such audio and tactile materials as films, records, and anatomical models and charts, and comparing body parts to the other senses and to inanimate objects.
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