EYEBORG

EYEBORG

I can discuss a disability.

Five senses:

*sight

*hearing

*smell

*touch

*taste

Open Ended

What adjective describes a person who can’t see and can’t hear?

Blind - people who can’t see 

Deaf  - people who can’t hear

colour - blind /ˈkʌləblʌɪnd/ - unable to distinguish certain colours, or (rarely in humans) any colors at all.

achromatopsia  /əˌkrəʊməˈtɒpsɪə/ - condition characterized by a partial or total absence of color vision, they see only black, white, and shades of gray.

Multiple Choice

Read the summaries and choose the best one after reading.

• Neil Harbisson used to be colour-blind, but a special device now means he can see colours through sound, although he still usually paints in black and white.

• Colour-blind since birth, Neil Harbisson can now paint in colour. But he isn’t very happy with his paintings and thinks the device he wears is uncomfortable and noisy.

• Neil Harbisson used to paint in black and white, but now paints in colour. He is colour-blind and wears a special device that makes sounds corresponding to the colour he is looking at.

Open Ended

Is Neil completely colour-blind?

Open Ended

How did Neil meet Adam Montandon?

Open Ended

How does the fact that Neil played the piano as a child help him to use the Eyeborg?

Open Ended

Find adjectives with prefixes in the text and write them in the answer box.