Audio-visual aids are related to __________

Audio-visual aids help in stimulating the ears and eyes. Hence, in a strict sense, a teaching aid is any device that can be used to help reinforce new information or skills. Instructional aids are devices that assist an instructor in the teaching-learning process.

Key Points

 Audio-visual aids are related to perceptual apparatus and audible apparatus. 

• Audio aids are instructional devices through which messages can only be heard.
• It is said that we spend more than 50% of our time hearing. This shows the importance of audio media in our life. 
• Tables, charts, and graphs are collectively called visual aids and often convey a message or piece of information better than words.
• There are several functions that can be performed by these visual aids.  

When properly used, audio-visual aids contribute one or more of the following functions:

•  Convey meaning clearly.
•  Capture attention, arouse and sustain interest.
• Increase the correctness, clarity, and effectiveness of the idea and skills being transferred.
•  Help in learning more, faster, and with thoroughness.
•  Help in remembering longer.
•  Reach more people, irrespective of their level of literacy, or language.
• Save the instructor’s time.
• Reduce the possibility of misinterpreting concepts.
•  Clarify the relationship between material objects and concepts.

Thus, it is concluded that the audio-visual aids are related to perceptual apparatus and audible apparatus.