Assistive System for Visually Impaired Children

It is said that visually impaired children learn about the world in a different way than other sighted children. They cannot watch people and objects and could not imitate what they see, and may be at first not move about freely. This idea aims to help them by trying to stimulate their learning and exploration through hearing and feeling objects around them.

In the first illustration, a visually impaired toddler may be encouraged to explore her surroundings more by following a guide that will make sounds or talk to her. The basic components for this set up are:

optional components may be:

The second illustration gives the option of setting up multiple guides for the child, but this time with less components each. This idea is similar to the beeping sounds that may be heard from pedestrian crossings in Japan, wherein visually impaired individuals are able to cross the street using a cane following Tenji blocks on the pedestrian pavement, and by following the sounds emitted at the crossing. Since the components will only need to emit sound, the basic components may be:

optional components may be:

The third illustration is about helping the child distinguish objects, colors, etc. This may be helpful for people with color blindness, but may be extended to include more features to help individuals to help classify bricks (e.g. using the existing classification of Lego bricks for blind people, etc.)

Basic components may include:

optional components for extended features may be: