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Improving the spatial awareness of blind children has obvious consequences for their later development of mobility skills and other areas of independent functioning. The use of ultrasonic spatial sensors for training spatial awareness in blind children has been a matter of considerable interest and research (1,5,10). Past investigators have been constrained to use binaural spatial sensors for such training, and there has been considerable debate as to their suitability for this purpose (3,6,9). Recently, a more highly developed ultrasonic spatial sensor has become available for experimentation. This device, called a trinaural sensor, or Trisensor has, in addition to the binaural channels, a high resolution central monaural channel (7, see also Kay, this volume).
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Hornby, G., Kay, L., Satherley, M., Kay, N. (1985). Spatial Awareness Training of Blind Children Using the Trisensor. In: Warren, D.H., Strelow, E.R. (eds) Electronic Spatial Sensing for the Blind. NATO ASI Series, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1400-6_17
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