Visually Impaired Women and the World of Work: Theme and Variations

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 276-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances A. Koestler
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Theme And Variations ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
The World ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Major Factors

This summary of the proceedings at the conference on “Education and Employment Opportunities for Blind and Visually Impaired Women” lists the major factors identified as roadblocks to satisfactory career development and points to a variety of coping strategies that can help overcome the dual handicap of gender and disability.

Service Providers Assessment of the Career Development Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired Students and Rehabilitation Clients and the Resources Available to Meet those Needs

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (10) ◽  
pp. 434-443
Author(s):  
Martha Bagley
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired Students ◽  
Management Staff ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons ◽  
Development Tasks

The following study presents an overview of career development needs of blind and visually impaired individuals and discusses results of a 1983–84 survey of school teachers (grades K, 3, 6, 9 and 12), rehabilitation counselors, management staff of rehabilitation agencies and agency administrators that assessed career development needs of severely visually impaired persons and resources available to meet those needs. Individuals surveyed felt that their students or clients need greater accessibility to career development tasks, experiences, and resources, and that none of the resources listed in the survey are readily accessible now, and many are inaccessible. Four basic conclusions are discussed.

scholarly journals LIBRARY SERVICES FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED CITIZENS

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-103
Author(s):  
L. V. Dmitrova
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
World Health ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Partial Loss ◽  
Loss Of Vision ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
The World

Blind and visually impaired citizens are a special category of people with disabilities. According to the World Health Organization data, there are about 39 million blind people around the world and 246 million people have very low vision.  The formation of a barrier-free environment in the field of social services, culture, education, employment is the most important task for representatives of federal and regional authorities, ministries and departments. Institutions of various profiles are doing great work on socio cultural rehabilitation of persons with restricted health abilities and on ensuring them equal opportunities with other citizens to participate in social life. Library services for people with complete or partial loss of vision are part of the social rehabilitation system. People of this category are provided with information by special libraries for the blind and visually impaired as well as by the network of state and municipal libraries. In the context of globalization, there  rises the question of integrating special libraries for the blind and publicly accessible libraries into the  united system for to provide disabled people with  information services.  The article gives a brief characteristic of publications devoted to library services for blind and visually impaired citizens. Library specialists actively discuss ways of uniting resources and promoting services for people with total or partial loss of vision for to raise effectiveness in solving tasks of adaptation for this group of inhabitants.  Such system could support people, having restrictions on vision, in full realization of their rights and liberties, create conditions for raising culture of consumption of products and social sphere services.

scholarly journals Research on Methods of "Touching the World" ―The Aim of the Exhibit Area of Tactile Learning in Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kojiro Hirose
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Tactile Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Impaired People

<p>The author acknowledges that blind and visually impaired people constitute only about one percent of annual visitors to his museum, but has nevertheless implemented tactile exhibits to enhance the learning and enjoyment of everyone.&nbsp; He describes tactile workshops he has developed to train visitors to get the most out of handling and exploring objects through touch.&nbsp;</p><p>Key words: Japan&rsquo;s National Museum of Ethnology, blind and visually impaired Japanese, tactile exhibits, universal design in museums.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

Information literacy for visually impaired teachers in Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Arif Khan ◽  
Haroon Idrees ◽  
Ali Asghar ◽  
Urrehman Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Disadvantaged Community ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Literacy Skills

There are more than 285 million blind and visually impaired people in the world, 90% of whom live in developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a study on visually impaired school teachers in Pakistan in order to examine how they identify, explore, select, organize, create, present, assess and apply information (IFLA’s Information Literacy Empowering Eight model) in teaching and everyday life. Interviews were conducted in January 2015 with 55 visually impaired teachers in 10 schools for the blind located in the province of Khyber PukhtunKhwa, Pakistan. The study also explores their ability to find, evaluate, and apply pedagogical information. Collected data revealed information on different aspects of information literacy skills. Although basic skills of the studied population were assessed; the study found that visually impaired teachers are highly skilled in terms of organizing the information and they prefer to take personal responsibility while searching for required information. They were found less skilled in using and apply new tools for information searching and lacking in ability to present the data effectively. This is the first research on the information literacy skills of visually impaired teachers in Pakistan. Results are useful for planners and experts to integrate IFLA’s E8 model of information literacy into several courses taught at the blind schools in order to enable the disadvantaged community to benefit from the information literacy skills.

Equalizing Opportunities for Blind and Visually Impaired Children around the World

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
W.G. Brohier
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
International Partnerships ◽  
International Council ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
The World ◽  
Visually Handicapped ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

The need for increased special education programs worldwide, better data, more emphasis on prevention, and international partnerships are discussed. Roles that the International Council on Education of the Visually Handicapped (ICEVH) can play are also described.

Lives Without, Lives Within: Autobiographies of Blind Women and Men

1983 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 242-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne ◽  
Lawrence H. Sacks
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Ideal Woman ◽  
The World

Examines the autobiographies of 25 blind and visually impaired women and men and assesses the influence of gender upon disability. The authors examine how these authors’ lives exemplify the roles of ideal woman or man and disabled person in society and how their views about themselves and the world compare with those of other marginal people who have revealed themselves in autobiographical form.

Investing in All the People (The Quaid-i-Azam Lecture)

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (4I) ◽  
pp. 367-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence H. Summers
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Extensive Body

I am honoured to have the privilege of addressing this distinguished conference. I have read about Pakistan's accomplishments and problems for many years and since coming to the World Bank I have followed your government's bold reform efforts closely. I feel fortunate to finally have the opportunity to visit your country. I decided to speak today on "Investing in All the People" because an extensive body of recent research has convinced me that once all the benefits are recognised, investment in the education of girls may well be the highest return investment available in the developing world. And, as I will make clear, increasing the education of girls is an especially high priority for Pakistan. Women's education may seem an odd topic for an economist to address. But enhancing women's contribution to development is as much an economic as a social issue. Economics, with its emphasis on incentives, provides a useful way to understand why so many girls are deprived of education and employment opportunities. And concrete calculations demonstrate that there are enormous economic benefits to investing in women.

Career Development: Linking Education and Careers of Blind and Visually Impaired Ninth Graders

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (10) ◽  
pp. 444-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Graves ◽  
Steve Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Ninth Graders ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Ninth Grade Students

The development of educational programs which relate to the career development needs of blind and visually impaired youth depends on information about their needs. These data are not presently available. The following study identified career development needs of blind ninth grade students and determined their perceptions of the extent to which these needs were met by their schools. The blind ninth graders surveyed reported that a number of their career development needs were not being met by the schools they attended, and that even those services which were not perceived as necessarily meeting their needs were not readily accessible to them.

scholarly journals A Braille Press Project: Improving the Literacy of the World’s Visually Impaired

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Daniel Blood ◽  
Brian Koch ◽  
Marjorie Ballun ◽  
Mark M. Budnik ◽  
G. Scott Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Print Material ◽  
The World ◽  
Design And Manufacture

Valparaiso University engineering students have completed a service learning project to design and manufacture an upgraded braille printing press for Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc., a charitable organization that provides free-of-charge, Christian print material to visually impaired individuals around the world. There are approximately 314 million blind and visually impaired individuals around the world and the need for braille print material is significant. Braille presses are used by Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc., volunteers at work centers where the braille print material is produced. Moreover, the braille press is a critical component of the production process. The project provided multiple engineering students the opportunity to design, manufacture, and implement an actual product that will benefit visually impaired individuals around the world.

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