scholarly journals ENCANTOS E ENCONTROS DA BIBLIOTERAPIA PARA PESSOAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA VISUAL = BIBLIOTHERAPY CHARMS AND MEETINGS FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Marilia Mesquita Guedes Pereira ◽  
Danielle da Silva Pinheiro Wellichan
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Identity Integration ◽  
Informational Environment ◽  
Impaired Person ◽  
The Way

A leitura possui um vasto significado na vida do ser humano, independentemente do ambiente ou da forma como aconteça. Especialmente por meio da Biblioterapia, ela pode representar grandes transformações e, para as pessoas com deficiência visual (de forma congênita ou adquirida), pode oferecer oportunidades de identidade, integração e expressão, despertando possibilidades importantes que podem ser trabalhadas e incluídas por bibliotecários em seu ambiente informacional. Com o objetivo de descrever sobre a prática e essas possibilidades, realizou-se uma breve revisão de literatura, somada à descrição de duas sessões de Biblioterapia realizadas na biblioteca de um instituto especializado mediado por uma Bibliotecária, na Paraíba, em João Pessoa. Assim, foi possível identificar como a leitura auxilia a pessoa com deficiência visual a desvendar, recordar e se encantar com um mundo cheio de descobertas, imaginação e diversão, mesmo de forma diferente. Resultados apontam inúmeros benefícios e demonstram o quanto a Biblioterapia favorece a inclusão das pessoas com deficiência visual nas sessões desenvolvidas nas bibliotecas e amplia os horizontes profissionais do bibliotecário em relação aos seus usuários.AbstractReading has a vast meaning in human life, regardless of the environment or the way it happens. Especially through Bibliotherapy, it can represent great transformations and, for people with visual impairment (congenital or acquired), it can offer opportunities for identity, integration and expression, awakening important possibilities that can be worked on and included by librarians in their informational environment. In order to describe the practice and these possibilities, a brief literature review was carried out, together with the description of two Bibliotherapy sessions held in the library of a specialized institute mediated by a Librarian, in Paraíba, João Pessoa. Thus, it was possible to identify how reading helps the visually impaired person to unravel, remember and be enchanted by a world full of discoveries, imagination and fun, even in a different way. Results point out numerous benefits and demonstrate how bibliotherapy favors the inclusion of people with visual impairments in the sessions developed in libraries and expands the librarian's professionalhorizons in relation to their users.

scholarly journals Equipamento Vestível para Auxílio na Mobilidade de Pessoas Com Deficiência Visual

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Claudio Leite Pereira ◽  
Janine Kniess
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Impaired Person ◽  
The Way

Mobility for people with visual impairments is a challenge in placeswhere there is no knowledge of obstacles. Research carried out inthis work identified that people with visual impairment have difficultieswith obstacles located above 1 meter. Thus, an approach isproposed to notify the visually impaired person through sound andvibration about such obstacles. The proposed solution is available onthe ThingSpeak platform and components such as microcontrollers(ESP8266 NodeMcu ESP-12), sensors, buzzer and GPS were usedin its development. Results confirmed that the proposed approachcorrectly identified the existence of obstacles with a height equalto or greater than 1 (one) meter in the way of visually impairedpeople.

Three Classes of Change to Improve the Daily Living Skills of Persons with Visual Impairment

1993 ◽  
Vol 87 (10) ◽  
pp. 402-404
Author(s):  
J. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Daily Living Skills ◽  
Living Skills ◽  
The Way

Individuals who become visually impaired need to adapt in the way they perform tasks. This article describes three classes of change involved in improving the daily living skills of persons with visual impairments: changes in the work, in the workplace, and in the worker's activity. Changes in the work or product are considered the highest level of change and, of necessity, bring about changes in the workplace and in the worker's activities. Case studies illustrate the three levels of changes.

Adapting the Brief COPE for Chinese Adolescents with Visual Impairments

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Yuan ◽  
Li-fang Zhang ◽  
Bing Li
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Brief Cope ◽  
Chinese Adolescent

Introduction The present research pioneered the effort in assessing adolescents’ coping with visual impairment through adapting the Brief COPE in an eastern context. The first study preliminarily explored the applicability of the Brief COPE to Chinese adolescent students with visual impairments. Based on the results, the Brief COPE was modified and renamed, COPE-Revised. The second study tested the internal psychometric properties and the criterion-related validity of the COPE-Revised. Criterion-related validity was obtained through investigating the correlation between coping and self-esteem. Method The first study involved 176 adolescent students with visual impairments, comprising a survey using the Brief COPE and follow-up interviews. In the second study, another cohort of 170 adolescent students with visual impairments responded to the COPE-Revised together with an inventory assessing self-esteem. Results The COPE-Revised showed adequate psychometric properties. Three higher-order factors, namely self-directed, other-directed, and relinquished-control coping, were identified. The way in which self-esteem was correlated with these three dimensions of coping provided evidence for the criterion-related validity of the COPE-Revised. Discussion The findings indicate that the COPE-Revised has sound psychometric properties among adolescents with visual impairments. Limitations regarding the sample-selection bias and the means of questionnaire survey among visually impaired adolescents are noted. Implications for practitioners This research tailored a coping inventory for educators, counselors, and researchers who are interested in investigating adolescents’ ability to cope with visual impairments. The relationship between coping with visual impairment and self-esteem found in this research has reference significance for educational and counseling services for visually impaired adolescents.

scholarly journals Materialita pohybu: vztah mezi nevidomostí a městským prostorem

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Porkertová
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Impaired Person

This article thematizes relations between visual impairment and urban space, drawing from the analytical perspective of actor-network theory (ANT). It traces the ways in which visually impaired people create specific connections with space and how they transform it. Urban space is configured for use by able-bodied persons, for whom movement within it is easy and seems to be disembodied. However, for those who defy the standardization of space, the materiality of movement is constantly present and visible, because the passages are difficult to make and are not ready in advance. These materialities, as well as the strategies that people use to make connections with urban space, differ according to the assemblages that visually impaired people create. A route is different with a cane, a human companion, a guide dog, or the use of a combination of such assistance; the visually impaired person pays attention to different clues, follows specific lines, and other information is important and available. Each configuration makes it possible or impossible to do something; this shows disability as dynamic, and demonstrates the collective nature of action, which is more visible and palpable in the case of a disabled person.

scholarly journals An Intelligent and Interactive Interface to Support Symmetrical Collaborative Educational Writing among Visually Impaired and Sighted Users

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirza Waqar ◽  
Muhammad Aslam ◽  
Muhammad Farhan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Shared Environment ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Speech Recognition Engine

It is often uncomfortable for disabled individuals, especially those with vision impairment, to conduct educational activities in collaboration with people that have perfect vision. This can be because of the former’s lack of confidence, vision capability, and acceptance. Information and communications technology (ICT) has played a vital role in giving support to people with visual impairments so that they can overcome their issues. This study proposes innovative solutions that address the challenges faced by partially or completely visually impaired people. It provides an interactive and intelligent interface, which they may use to perform educational activities, such as editing, writing, or reviewing documents, in collaboration with people without visual impairments. The system provides high-quality awareness features by sending them instant voice notifications about the actions and events occurring in the shared environment. A speech-recognition engine has been integrated into the system to allow users to interact with the application through voice commands. The system is evaluated through experiments, where people with visual impairment and people without visual impairment were engaged in collaborative writing. The obtained results are encouraging. The users showed curiosity in the system and were able to focus on the productive task instead of their disability.

scholarly journals Usability Evaluation Model for Mobile Visually Impaired Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Azham Hussain ◽  
Ahlam Mohamed Omar
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Models ◽  
Usability Evaluation Methods

The usability of the mobile applications is the most important factor in developing, so the key to develop successful mobile applications is usability, especially for users have specific needs such as visually impaired. However, developers do not focus on visually impaired users. Moreover, there are limited studies and usability evaluation models for mobile applications for visually impaired so developers use just a modified usability evaluation methods which are not enough and useful to evaluate mobile applications for visually impaired, or they use general usability evaluation models. Therefore, using these methods or models is difficult for evaluator and not useful for visually impaired users. This study conducts Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to identify usability dimensions that help mobile applications developers and evaluators to evaluate mobile application for users which have moderate and severe visual impairment. The result shows that, six dimensions that have a significant impact on moderate and severe visually impaired users' satisfaction, who use mobile applications. These dimensions namely efficiency, effectiveness, satisfaction, errors, accessibility and understandability.

Play and Concept Development in Infants and Young Children with Severe Visual Impairments: A Constructivist View

1997 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Recchia
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Play Skills ◽  
Constructivist View ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Infants And Young Children

Infants and young children who are severely visually impaired from birth show consistent delays in concept development, compared to their sighted peers. This article focuses on the impact of severe visual impairment on the development of those play skills that facilitate concept development and discusses the ways in which intervention can enhance play experiences for infants and young children with severe visual impairments.

scholarly journals BASAER Team: The First Arabic Robot Team for Building the Capacities of Visually Impaired Students to Build and Program Robots

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (24) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Hamash ◽  
Hasnah Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired Students ◽  
Guided Instruction ◽  
Educational Robots

the purpose of this study was to examine whether visually impaired students can build educational robots and program them if they receive adapted materials and instructions with guided instruction from well-trained educators in the fields of inclusive STEM Classrooms. Discussion of the technologies and our experimental approach is presented in this paper and validated through the continued successful effort with visually impaired students for two years of the program and specialists in the field of visual impairment and STEAM, we also validated our approach by performing experimental classes for students with different visual impairments and ages. The results indicated that the approach used by BASAER team was successful in enabling the blind and visually impaired students to build and program educational robotics and to participate effectively in national and international STEAM programs and competitions, with some limitations and Challenges encountered and explored during this research. The results from this study will be used to suggest a fully adapted system to support full inclusion for blind and visually impaired students in educational robots in STEAM context and to promote the adoption of this study and similar studies toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms.

Students with Visual Impairments in Special and Mainstream Schools in Japan: A Survey

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 218-228
Author(s):  
Toshibumi Kakizawa ◽  
Graeme Douglas ◽  
Kunio Kagawa ◽  
Heather Mason
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Special Schools ◽  
General Decrease ◽  
Visually Impaired Students

This article reports on a 1995 survey of visually impaired students in Japan: 4,537 in special schools for visually impaired students and 233 in visual impairment units in mainstream schools. Although there appears to be a general decrease in the number of students with visual impairments in Japan, the proportion with additional disabilities is increasing. The findings for Japan are contrasted with those of similar studies in Great Britain.

Inventory of Electronic Mobility Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments: A Literature Review

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (11) ◽  
pp. 702-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uta R. Roentgen ◽  
Gert Jan Gelderblom ◽  
Mathijs Soede ◽  
Luc P. de Witte
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Environmental Adaptation ◽  
Mobility Aids ◽  
Recent Developments

This literature review of existing electronic mobility aids for persons who are visually impaired and recent developments in this field identified and classified 146 products, systems, and devices. The 21 that are currently available that can be used without environmental adaptation are described in functional terms.

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