Teaching a student to take audiovisual impairments into account is important, but it’s those shared frustrations and emotions that are the real key to the “We Are Alfred” project.
The most important function of “We Are Alfred” is fostering empathy between caretakers and their patients.
There are other techniques like having students wear vision-limiting glasses that medical schools use to try to replicate what it’s like to be an elderly patient but Shaw felt those methods weren’t holistic enough.
