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Deprived
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- Want guidelines to improving my senses
- How blindness affects other senses
- Thesis on blind and beauty therapy
- How can a blind person feel?
- Definition for loss of sense of smell and taste
- Loss of senses
- Coping with losses
Want guidelines to improving my senses
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January 13, 2006
Please give me more guidelines to improving my senses.
- USA
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You cannot improve your senses more that what you were born with. But you can be more sensitive to sights, sounds, temperatures and such. It is being aware. A blind person cannot hear better than the average person, but he is more aware of the sounds since he listens more carefully.
So, just try to be aware of your various senses and you will get more out of them.
How blindness affects other senses
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March 5, 2005
My name is Ross and I am a senior at Northgate High school. I was wondering if you have any information or sources of information that go in depth about how blindness affect the other four senses of the human body.
- USA
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Most sources say that blindness does not make the senses stronger. Instead the person (or animal) become more aware the other senses and utilizes them better.
The following sites allude to that point:
http://www.99main.com/~charlief/vi/myths.html
http://www.rnzfb.org.nz/Education/blindness_faq.php
Thesis on blind and beauty therapy
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March 2, 2005
Hi my name is Norelle and i am doing a thesis on people with visual impairment and how they precieve beauty therapy and the reasons that they recieve treatments and are they the same as people with their sightor are there different reasons ie. more for touch therapy i would appreciate any feed back on this topic i would love to speak with any one. i hope to learn what i as a therapist could do to improve the services that we offer and make things more comfortable for all involved.Thank you
Norelle - NSW
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Blind people often use the sense of touch to feel a person's face, as well as their own. They may be able to "picture" what they feel. Although beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it is usually related to good proportions.
If what you want to do relates to cosmetic improvements, like adding makeup and stylish clothes, consider some blind entertainers. Blind American singer Stevie Wonder has his hair done in the latest styles and wears appropriate clothes for entertaining. He can feel his hair and the texture of the clothes. He can compare them with what others are wearing. But also, he gets sincere compliments from his friends and family: "Oh, boy! You look good."
I hope those ideas help. Best wishes in your thesis. Let me know how things turn out.
How can a blind person feel?
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December 2, 2004
I have a question. How can a blind person feel? I mean if someone is looking at you, you probably look back, right? I think you feel it. Does this connect to how can a blind person feel materials or other things?
Miho - Japan
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You sense another person from seeing them, hearing sounds (breathing, etc.) and from smelling them. Most people with sight do not notice the other senses. So, a blind person could tell if someone was near from the other two senses.
There are theories that people can feel if someone is looking at them through some other sense. But there is not enough strong proof to be sure about it.
Definition for loss of sense of smell and taste
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March 6, 2004
I understand that losing senses is a major deprivation to one's enjoyment to life. But what i wanted to know are the terms used to people who lose their senses e.g. people who are unable to see - blind. I want to know what the terms that are used for people who are disabled by impairment of senses of touch, taste and smell please. Thank you.
Patrick - Australia
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Loss of the sense of taste and/or smell is called anosmia. I'm sure there is a medical term for loss of the sense of touch, but I've never been able to find it.
Loss of senses
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December 16, 2003
I really liked this qize? um excuse me but I am working on a project in school about the 5 senses and I also need to write of what about if we didn't
have any of these senses and I am searching in the enternet for some information but it would not give me any I am writing to you so you can help me please!!
THANK YOU!!
Alma -
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See:
http://www.school-for-champions.com/senses/deprived.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~oakwoods/smell.taste.html
http://www.startribune.com/stories/401/4182466.html
Hope that helps.
Coping with losses
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August 19, 2003
Hi,
My sister recently lost her sense of smell and taste due to head trama. Are you aware of any of the dangers associated with this and how can she cope with these?
Jimmy -
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The loss of smell and taste is called anosmia. Sometimes the senses will gradually come back after a head injury. The biggest problem with losing those senses is not enjoying food or being able to tell when some food in spoiled.
A suggestion is that she join or look into the Yahoo Group on people with anosmia to see how others cope:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anosmia/messages/8435
Best wishes for your sister's recovery.
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