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Blind & Deaf Children Learn to Communicate via Olfaction {The 5th Sense in the News}

A partnership between PZ Cussons (Imperial Leather, Carex) and the Sea Shell Trust for the blind and deaf lets perfumer Kate Williams reconstruct smells for severely disabled children for whom it is the only means of communication, with touch. Full Article at Glam.com

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    Communicating with children using smells
    1 month ago

    Sofia’s world is largely a dark and silent one. As a blind and deaf child of 9, her sense of smell is one of the few means by which she can interpret the landscape.And what she is smelling today, on a small, laminated square, is the seaside. Full Article at Times Online

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  1. If Sofia was being taken to the farm, she would just arrive there and that would be it ... But if you have introduced the idea beforehand by smell it helps to put it in context.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  2. Eighty per cent of your learning is visual and 15 per cent is aural so that only leaves \ these children with 5 per cent. This is why it’s so important to give them a medium ... What Kate has done is incredible. These aren’t smells that you can buy in a shop; she has had to break down the smell into ind...
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
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