Unprecedented Times Call for Unprecedented Collaboration: How Two COVID-19 Surveys Were Created with Input from Across the Field of Visual Impairment to Analyze the Needs of Adults, Students, Teachers, and Orientation and Mobility Practitioners

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Penny Rosenblum
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Orientation And Mobility

Visual Impairment and Rehabilitation Needs of Nursing Home Residents

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Horowitz ◽  
E. Balistreri ◽  
C. Stuen ◽  
R. Fangmeier
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Rehabilitation Training ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
Rehabilitation Needs

This article reports on the prevalence and rehabilitation needs of visually impaired residents of nursing homes, based on optometric examinations of 136 residents of a nursing home in Staten Island, NY. The results indicate that about half the residents were at least moderately visually impaired and almost one-third were potential candidates for low vision assessments, or rehabilitation training, or orientation and mobility services.

scholarly journals Hungry Cat—A Serious Game for Conveying Spatial Information to the Visually Impaired

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Chai ◽  
Bee Lau ◽  
Zheng Pan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Spatial Navigation ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
Mobility Training ◽  
Positive Results

Navigation is done through obtaining spatial information from the environment and forming a spatial map about it. The visually impaired rely mainly on orientation and mobility training by a certified specialist to acquire spatial navigation skills. However, it is manpower intensive and costly. This research designed and developed a serious game, Hungry Cat. This game can convey spatial information of virtual rooms to children with visual impairment through game playing. An evaluation with 30 visually impaired participants was conducted by allowing them to explore each virtual room in Hungry Cat. After exploration, the food finding test, which is a game mode available in Hungry Cat, was conducted, followed by the physical wire net test to evaluate their ability in forming the spatial mental maps of the virtual rooms. The positive results of the evaluation obtained demonstrate the ability of Hungry Cat, in conveying spatial information about virtual rooms and aiding the development of spatial mental maps of these rooms through game playing.

scholarly journals ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN IN RELATION TO CHRONOLOGICAL AGE AND GENDER

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-72
Author(s):  
Dzenana Radzo Alibegovic ◽  
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Sevala Tulumovic ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
Visually Impaired Students ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

The aim of this study was to examine the orientation and mobility in children with visual impairment in relation to gender and chronological age. The study included a sample of 35 respondents with visual impairment, aged between 7 and 15. The research was conducted in Sarajevo at the “Centre for Blind and Visually Impaired Children and Youth - Nedžarići” (Bosnian: Centar za slijepu i slabovidnu djecu i omladinu Nedžarići). The results of the research showed that there were statistically significant differences in relation to chronological age obtained on the variables “orientation indoors and in buildings” and “orientation in the yard”, and that there is a relation between orientation and mobility and chronological age on the variables “orientation indoors and in buildings” and “orientation in the yard”. Gender has no significant effect on the orientation and mobility abilities of visually impaired students.

scholarly journals Early Intervention Program Through Bibliotherapy Approach For Reducing Fear In Orientation And Mobility Of Children With Visual Impairment

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Euis Heryati ◽  
Endang Rochyadi ◽  
Oom Sitti Homdijah ◽  
Ehan Ehan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Psychosocial Factor ◽  
Early Intervention Program ◽  
Community Attitudes ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
Mobility Skills

Orientation and mobility skills are special skills that must be mastered by children with visual impairment, thus an orientation and mobility intervention program is important to develop. Fear or anxiety in children with visual impairment related to orientation and mobility can be caused by fear from within the children or from the environment. Personality, motivation, psychosocial factor, and family and community attitudes all contribute to one's reaction to mobility activities independently. This research aims to reduce the fear of children with visual impairment in performing orientation and mobility activities by implementing an intervention program through bibliotherapy technique. This research is a case study research with a qualitative approach. Bibliotherapy was carried out on two young children with visual impairment. The results of the program implementation show that children's fear or anxiety could be reduced in both cases in this research as seen by autonomous moves of the two children from the mother and caregiver and began to learn to trace the walls of the room.

scholarly journals The White Cane. Its Effectiveness, Challenges and Suggestions for Effective Use: The Case of Akropong School for the Blind

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Isaac Attia ◽  
Daniel Asamoah
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
White Cane ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The article analyses the effectiveness and challenges of the use of the white cane and makes suggestions for its effective use. We explain that the white cane is one of the widely used and famous orientation and mobility (O&M) tools designed for pupils with visual impairment to move independently in their environment. By employing the descriptive qualitative design, we draw our findings from 12 participants who were pupils of the Akropong School for the Blind in Ghana. We make implications and conclude on the findings for policy formulation on the white cane, and make suggestions for future research work.

Audiological Assessment, Rehabilitation, and Spatial Hearing Considerations Associated With Visual Impairment in Adults

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith T. Blumsack
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Case History ◽  
Spatial Hearing ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Hearing Research ◽  
Orientation And Mobility

The purpose of this paper is to increase awareness and interest among audiologists regarding the needs of adults who have both hearing loss and visual impairment, particularly people who are blind and travel independently. Case history, audiometric testing, and rehabilitation issues are considered, and extensive discussion of spatial hearing research as it relates to orientation and mobility is provided.

Diabetes and Orientation and Mobility Training: An Added Challenge

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Kozel
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Insulin Hypoglycemia ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
Mobility Training

This article explores issues related to working with visually impaired clients with diabetes, such as the effects of insulin, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, the timing of training, complications to the feet, and fluctuations in vision. It stresses that adjustment to diabetes is a far greater problem than adjustment to visual impairment and requires clients to make major changes in their lifestyles.

Web-based Teacher Preparation in Visual Impairment: Course Development, Teaching, Learning, and Quality Assurance

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (10) ◽  
pp. 609-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Bruce ◽  
Tom T. Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Course Development ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Orientation And Mobility ◽  
Online Experience ◽  
Teaching Learning

The development and teaching of web-based courses places new demands on university faculty and students. Development structures, online pedagogical practices, and issues of evaluation are presented by two faculty with online experience in the areas of visual impairment and orientation and mobility.

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