Generic Adaptations to Blindness: An Alternate Method of Rehabilitation

Abstract

The author suggests that it is time to abandon the traditional methods of teaching blind persons by subject area and to, instead, use a generic approach to rehabilitation. He lists a number of principles that could be applied to one or more of his nine categories of ways of viewing and coping with the problems of the total environment. This approach depends on teaching blind students how to transfer, or adapt, their knowledge of problem-solving techniques from one task to another.