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Article: Breaking barriers.(From Past To Present)
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- Calliope
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Imagine stepping into your backyard or a field near your home, closing your eyes, and then looking up at the sky. Now imagine someone telling you about the moon, or a group of stars? To be sure, you'd want to open your eyes and look for the moon of stars yourself. But what if your vision was impaired? Visualizing the objects of the night sky would be difficult. But not anymore! Not since Noreen Grice wrote Touch the Stars.
The idea for a book that would allow visually impaired people to touch the stars and planets with their fingers came to her after students from the Perkins School for the Blind visited the planetarium. Realizing that the images on the ...