Developing Writing and Word Processing Skills with Visually Impaired Children: A Beginning

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (7) ◽  
pp. 308-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan J. Koenig ◽  
Catherine G. Mack ◽  
William A. Schenk ◽  
S.C. Ashcroft

The Apple Education Foundation awarded a two-year joint project to Peabody College for Teachers and Tennessee School for the Blind (TSB) for the purpose of studying the development of word processing skills by visually handicapped students. Apple IIe microcomputers, printers, software, and specialized technological aids are now being used by students and teachers at TSB and by preservice teachers at Peabody College. This article discusses the project's conceptual framework, activities at the project site, and a module developed to introduce students to the Braille–Edit word processing system.

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 351-358
Author(s):  
Eva Lindstedt

Describes experimental work that has been carried out in creating services for integrated visually handicapped children at a Center of assessment, counselling and training, located at a residential school. The principles and methods applied are outlined and a report given of 70 children visiting the Center during one time period. The clinical procedure and follow-up is described. The complexity of the problems and the necessity of an individual approach in habilitation is stressed as well as the importance of team work engaging both professional and nonprofessional persons.


1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
W.G. Brohier

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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Poonam Pandey

The present study aimed to investigate the level of social maturity and concept development of visually impaired children in residential and integrated educational settings. For this purpose 40 visually impaired children, 20 from residential educational setting and 20 from integrated educational setting were selected through purposive sampling technique from Uttarakhand, Uttara Prdesh, Hariyana, Gujrat and Delhi. For measuring level of social maturity and concept development, Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Indian adaption by A.J. Malin) and M.N.G. Mani’s concept development test were administered. 2 test, mean and percentage techniques were used to analyze the obtained data. The result reveals that in residential school setting children are more socially mature in comparison to integrated educational setting. The cumulative average performance score from all the 200 concepts reveal that residential education is more effective in comparison to integrated education for visually impaired children.


1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence R. Gardner

Describes an investigation of how different figure-ground contrast combinations affect the visual functioning of visually impaired children. The study employed the use of field reversals—printing white and yellow foregrounds on a black background—to decrease the amount of light reflected from printed materials to the eye. Eighteen visually impaired children ranging in age from nine years, four months to 14 years, six months participated in this study. The findings indicated that neither reversals in contrast nor chromaticity differences were effective measures for increasing visual functioning.


1992 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Bane ◽  
E.E. Birch

In the authors’ previous study, the success rate for forced-choice preferential looking (FPL) with preverbal visually impaired children was higher than that with pattern visual evoked potential (VEP). The current study sought to increase the VEP success rate and to improve agreement between the FPL and the VEP acuity estimates using horizontal-bar stimuli for children with nystagmus and steady-state presentation for those without nystagmus.


2021 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 101590
Author(s):  
Serena Grumi ◽  
Giulia Cappagli ◽  
Giorgia Aprile ◽  
Eleonora Mascherpa ◽  
Monica Gori ◽  
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