Teaching statistics to the blind psychology student
Keywords:
psychology, statistics, individual classes, tactile graphics, computer softwareAbstract
The objective of this article is to share the experience of teaching statistics to a blind student at Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. It discusses three conditions that have to be met in order to be successful. These conditions are: an individual approach toward the student, adaptation of didactic materials and availability of special software which enables the blind student to access the statistical package called SPSS. Solutions developed by us can be used both in teaching students of psychology and students of other faculties who are blind. The limitation in the generalization of applications is related to the fact that that it was a case study and that in the population of blind people there may be individual differences in mathematical abilities and logical thinking.
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