This article discusses Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS), a disability in which the individual has visual hallucinations that are complex, persistent, or repetitive, retains full or partial insight into the unreality of the hallucinations, does not have hallucinations in other modalities, and does not have delusional ideation. (Contains 12…

A panel addresses some of the concerns of blind parents. One partially sighted mother focuses on raising infants and preschoolers, a blind mother talks about raising a school-aged child with her blind husband, and a blind father discusses raising teenagers. (Author)

The article explores the theory that the sense of hearing evolved to help an organism localize its position in space and perform aural analyses of that space and describes two major kinds of hearing loss--conductive and sensorineural. (PHR)

The article describes an improved relief drawing set designed for use with visually impaired persons that allows durable, tangible, and visible embossed images to be made with a ball-point pen. (Author/PHR)

The article reviews four operative braille production systems for use by the visually impaired that will cut costs. The four are manual, semiautomated, automated, and electromagnetic cassette. (PHR)

The article explores aspects of the field of rehabilitation teaching of the blind. Taking into account the history of the development of the field, the author examines the current status and outlines problems, such as discord among organizations representing interests in the field. Five actions to enhance the profession are suggested. (PHR)

Using a theoretical model of walking with the cane, drop off detection in the touch technique was analyzed for usefulness with the visually impaired. Sufficient cane length for detecting curb drop offs was found to be measurable and a chart was generated to enable the practitioner to determine cane length easily. (Author)