COVID-19 Without Vision
Dr. Giudice worked in collaboration with colleagues to publish a new peer reviewed journal article on COVID-19 and blindness. The work, entitled 鈥淐OVID-19 and Visual Disability: Can鈥檛 Look and Now Don鈥檛 Touch鈥, builds on a Giudice wrote in the summer of 2020. The new piece was published in the and provides a scientific explanation for pandemic-related challenges blind and visually impaired (BVI) people experience. These challenges include spatial cognition, nonvisual information access, and environmental perception. The published piece also offers promising technical solutions for the above challenges.
Citation:
Rizzo, J.R., Beheshti, M., Fang, Y., Flanagan, S., & Giudice, N.A. (2021).聽COVID鈥19 and Visual Disability: Can鈥檛 Look and Now Don鈥檛 Touch.聽Physical medicine & rehabilitation, 13(2021), 415-421. DOI: 10.1002/pmrj.12541