A review of 35 peer reviewed articles dated from 2016 to February, 2021 was conducted identify and describe the types wayfinding devices that people who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind use while navigating indoors and/or outdoors in dynamic travel contexts. Within this investigation, we discovered some characteristics participants with visual impairments, routes traveled, real-world e...

In 1965, McCay Vernon drove a stake through the heart of the long-established "truth" that deaf people were inferior to hearing people. Launched by Aristotle, emboldened by the 1880 Conference of Milan, and reiterated in the twentieth century through the biased research of many psychologists, this falsehood persisted until the publication of this classic review paper. Vernon succinctly spotligh...

Historically, the field of deaf education has revolved around language planning discourse, but little research been conducted on Deaf and Hard Hearing (DHH) students with additional disabilities as dynamic multilingual multimodal users. The current study focuses process at a school serving DHH Deaf–Blind varied disabilities. A previous Total Communication philosophy was implemented in practice ...

This article reports on an empirical evaluation of the experience, performance, and perception a deafblind adult participant in experimental case study pedestrian travel urban environment. The assessed degree seamlessness wayfinding experience pertaining to routes that traverse both indoor outdoor spaces under different modalities technology-aided travel. Specifically, traveler completed three ...