Education of the Deaf-blind in the Perspective of Embodied Cognition——Reading How I Understand and Imagine the World Around Me
O.I.Skorokhodova is a leading Russian deaf-blind scholar and person who have severe loss of both hearing and sight.She is the author of the book How I Understand and Imagine the World Around Me,which provides her own cognitive perspective on how people with deaf-blind perceive and understand the world around them.She stresses the importance of obtaining information about the world based on the unity of mind,body,and environment,with special emphasis on the interaction between the body and the environment,which fully reflects the great role of embodied cognition in the education of the deaf-blind.Finally,this study combines the theory of embodied cognitive learning environments to describe the implications of this case for the future development of deaf-blind education in terms of utilizing residual visual,auditory and multisensory functions,exploiting the advantages of information technology to develop more resources,guiding the formation of a healthy emotional and psychological state,and constructing an inclusive and pluralistic socio-cultural environment in the hope that this case can provide a reference for the development of deaf-blind education.
education of the deaf-blindO.I.Skorokhodovaembodied cognition
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