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Museum Audiences 2011: Introduction
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Fall 2011 class blog for resources to engage varying museum audiences. Reaching out to Low-Income Visitors. Accessibility for All Visitors. Monday, November 28, 2011. Welcome museum professionals, visitors, and potential visitors! This blog is a collection of resources designed to help museums better serve the needs of our many diverse audiences. The posts have been created by George Washington University graduate students in museum education and museum studies. Accessibility for all visitors.
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Museum Audiences 2011: Welcome!
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Fall 2011 class blog for resources to engage varying museum audiences. Reaching out to Low-Income Visitors. Accessibility for All Visitors. Tuesday, October 25, 2011. This blog is now open for business. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by sndr.
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Museum Audiences 2011: October 2011
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Fall 2011 class blog for resources to engage varying museum audiences. Reaching out to Low-Income Visitors. Accessibility for All Visitors. Tuesday, October 25, 2011. This blog is now open for business. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by sndr.
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Links - Shauna Edson - Museum Educator
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Shauna Edson - Museum Educator. Museum Technology Newbies (Co-Author). Accessibility For All Visitors (Co-Author). The Museum of the Future. Teaching Controversy: Environmental Education. GWU Museum Education Program. American Association of Museums. Center for the Future of Museums (AAM). ADA Museum Accessibility Homepage. Principles of Universal Design (PDF).
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Accessibility for All Visitors: Visitors Who Have Alzheimer's Disease
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Accessibility for All Visitors. Serving museum visitors with sensory, cognitive, or physical challenges. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Visitors Who Have Alzheimer's Disease. The disease starts by affecting the parts of the brain involved in creating new memories. But the Parietal lobe, which is stimulated through creative activities such as art and music, is not affected until rather late in the disease. Here lies the potential for museums to help this audience. MoMA published materials to provide other mu...
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Accessibility for All Visitors: Visitors Who Are Deaf or Hearing-Impaired
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Accessibility for All Visitors. Serving museum visitors with sensory, cognitive, or physical challenges. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Visitors Who Are Deaf or Hearing-Impaired. Almost 20% of Americans older than 11 experience some degree of hearing loss that affects their daily life. That number is a bit staggering. As museum professionals, we need to be aware that one fifth of our potential audience may need some help to hear the content we present to them. However, because deaf and hearing-impaired peop...
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Accessibility for All Visitors: Changing Perceptions of Disability
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Accessibility for All Visitors. Serving museum visitors with sensory, cognitive, or physical challenges. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Changing Perceptions of Disability. The long-standing perception of disability has been solely as an individual medical condition. In other words, disability as a concept has been relegated to the particular people who live with it every day. Attitudes toward disabled people have ranged from pity and disgust to misunderstanding to awe and admiration. Any museum program can ...
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Accessibility for All Visitors: Visitors With Visual Impairments
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Accessibility for All Visitors. Serving museum visitors with sensory, cognitive, or physical challenges. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Visitors With Visual Impairments. Most of us rely on our vision almost exclusively, such that it’s nearly impossible to imagine getting around our lives without it. Yet we have so many other ways of absorbing information about our world, and museums have the unique ability to present exhibits and programs that exercise the myriad senses. Exhibits with tactile elements:.