Sensory Perception in Blind Bilinguals and Monolinguals

Abstract

In blinds, the tactile sensations play a crucial role for various daily activities, in the all sense modalities tactile sensation is considered as major sense of perception. This study is conducted to investigate the tactile sensations in relation to Bilingual and Monolingual blinds using experimental comparative study design, divided into two groups. Self-paced reading task of a Braille scripted passage was used as a stimulus. Findings of this study reported that blind bilingual participants differ in the processing of language, the tactile sensations in the Bilinguals are better as compared to monolinguals.