scholarly journals Behavioral Problems among Visually Impaired Children Studying at Special School for Blindness

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Amany A. Mohamed ◽  
Aml S. A. Abdelrahem ◽  
Sanaa M. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Child Behavior Checklist ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Special School ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Purposive Sample ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

Background: Visual impairment and blindness are significant ophthalmic disorders around the world. Behavioral problems in visually impaired children considered as one of the most serious health problems. Aim: The study aimed to assess behavioral problems among visually impaired children studying at a special school for blindness and assess the association between behavioral problems scores and selected demographic variables of studied children. Methods: The research design adopted for this study was descriptive correlational design. Sample: A purposive sample composed of one hundred and one (101) parents of children with visual impairment. Setting: The children studying at El Nour School for blindness in Minia city. Tools: The data were collected using the parents' interview questionnaire and Child Behavior Checklist/4-18 (CBCL/4-18). Results: Withdrawn syndrome represented the highest clinical level among the studied children, followed by clinical aggressive behavior. Also, less than a fifth of them had clinical internalizing problems, and 17.8% of them had clinical externalizing problems. A highly statistically significant correlation revealed between the score of total behavior syndromes and age of studied children. Conclusion: Visually impaired children had problems in the total social competence score and all its subscales. About one-third of them had borderline and clinical problems regarding total score of behavioral syndromes. Also, internalized and externalized problems had reported. The study recommended further intervention studies are necessary, which include parents' class about behavioral problems of visually impaired children and methods to limit its effect on children life.

Visual Consequences for Children with Early Acquired Lesions to the Optic Radiation—Vision ‘without Seeing’

Perception ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 192-192
Author(s):  
L Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Periventricular Leukomalacia ◽  
Brain Lesion ◽  
Visual Field Defects ◽  
Spastic Diplegia ◽  
Swedish Population ◽  
Visual Tasks ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

The brain lesion caused by perinatal hypoxic-ischemic events at gestational age 24 – 34 weeks has a typical anatomical pattern known as periventricular leukomalacia (PVL). PVL affects the corticospinal tracts, causing spastic diplegia and/or the geniculocalcarine tract, causing visual impairment. Computer tomography or magnetic resonance imaging are the methods of choice for diagnosing PVL. This lesion is the cause of visual impairment in 20% of all visually impaired children in a Swedish population of children born in 1989 – 1995. The visual deficit in PVL is characterised by decreased vision with crowding (an inability to resolve linear optotypes, while single optotypes of the same size may be identified) and visual field defects, further complicated by perceptual and cognitive problems. A relatively high single optotype acuity may lead to overestimation of visual function. Oculomotor impairments with strabismus and nystagmus are common findings. Colour vision is often preserved and used by the children as one of many strategies to sort out an otherwise chaotic visual world. Instead of looking, these children listen carefully, talk a lot and remember well, and sometimes use tactile information to solve visual tasks. They easily get lost in new surroundings and they recognise known faces among others only by the voice and the colour of the clothes. Reading is often difficult. This group of visually impaired children call for adaptation of education and habilitation to manage daily life, mobility, and reading.

Psychological and pedagogical diagnosis of children with visual impairment

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 193-199
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Siedlaczek-Szwed ◽  
Agata Jałowiecka-Frania
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Counseling Center ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

The text addresses issues related to the psychological and pedagogical diagnosis of children with visual impairment, which plays a very important role in programming, as well as in achieving the maximum results of revalidation or rehabilitation treatments undertaken on the basis of the diagnosis made. The authors present the results of research aimed at learning the process of diagnosing blind and visually impaired children in a public psychological and pedagogical counseling center conducted among 21 people involved in the diagnosis of blind and visually impaired children employed in facilities located in the Śląskie Voivodeship.

scholarly journals Communicative competence in a group of visually impaired children

1989 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Simpson ◽  
Glenda Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Therapeutic Implications ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

Aspects of verbal and non-verbal communicative competence of five visually-impaired six and seven year old children were investigated. The Profile of Communicative Appropriateness (Penn, 1983) was used to assess communicative competence in one discourse interaction with a known interlocutor (mother). The results indicated that the subjects were predominantly appropriate in terms of verbal communication, and predominantly inappropriate in terms of non-verbal communication. Severity of visual impairment influenced performance in terms of nonverbal communication. Research and therapeutic implications are discussed.

scholarly journals The Relations Between Behavioral Problems and Demographic Variables in Students With Visual Impairment

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-256
Author(s):  
Sara Ghorbaninejad ◽  
◽  
Firoozeh Sajedi ◽  
Masoumeh Pourmohamadreza Tajrishi ◽  
Samaneh Hosseinzadeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Research Population ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives: The most distinctive group of people with sensory disabilities is those with visual impairment. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between behavioral problems and demographic variables in students with visual impairment in the academic year of 2018-2019 in Tehran City, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive, and analytical study was conducted on students with visual impairment studying in four schools of exceptional children at the elementary and high school levels. The research population was 400, and the sample size was estimated at 200 using Cochran’s formula. The sampling was carried out using the random cluster sampling method, where the floors of the school were considered and visually-impaired students were selected randomly from each school based on the number of students. Demographic characteristics questionnaire and Rutter behavior evaluation questionnaire (teacher form) were used to collect data. Results: The Mean±SD behavioral problems score was 12.9±10.7. According to the results, there was a negative and significant correlation between the subscales of behavioral problems with age and duration of the impairment. A significant difference was found in the mean of behavioral problems of visually-impaired or blind children caused by accident with those with congenital and hereditary problems. The regression model showed a significant difference between male and female subjects in terms of behavioral problems in a short duration after the injury (≤5 years). Discussion: Given the relationship between behavioral problems with gender and duration of injury, it is recommended that interventions be carried out during the first few years of injury, especially for female individuals, to prevent or reduce the severity of behavioral problems.

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 ◽  
◽  
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 Perancangan Tactile Picture Book untuk Siswa Tunanetra di Sekolah Dasar

INKLUSI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Nuriana Sekarlintang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

According to the Ministry of Social Affairs census in 2012, 338.672 residents in Indonesia live with visual impairment, of which the 11.995 are children. Visually impaired children have the right to proper education facilities. Nevertheless, in Indonesia, the educational media for visually impaired children are still minimal. Children who are just learning to read the braille have difficulty reading braille texts because the system is quite complex, and the media is still conventional. The tactile picture book is a picture book that is read by touch. Children can understand images in a tactile picture book, particularly in terms of illustrations, layouts, colors, and themes adapted to Indonesian children's culture. Tactile picture books can be a medium for introducing braille letters to children in a more effective and fun way as well as media to understand the concepts and environment around them.[Menurut sensus Kementrian Sosial pada tahun 2012, sebanyak 338.672 penduduk Indonesia adalah tunanetra kategori low vision hingga totally blind, dari jumlah tersebut 11.995 diantaranya adalah anak-anak. Anak tunanetra berhak mendapatkan fasilitas pendidikan yang memadai. Namun di Indonesia, media edukasi untuk anak-anak tunanetra masih sangat terbatas. Anak-anak yang baru belajar membaca kesulitan untuk membaca teks braille karena sistemnya yang cukup kompleks dan medianya yang masih konvensional. Tactile picture book merupakan buku bergambar yang dibaca dengan perabaan. Gambar dalam tactile picture book dapat dimengerti oleh anak dengan beberapa ketentuan khusus mengenai ilustrasi, layout, warna, dan tema yang disesuaikan dengan kultur anak Indonesia. Tactile picture book dapat menjadi media pengenalan huruf braille kepada anak dengan cara yang lebih efektif dan menyenangkan sekaligus media untuk memahami konsep dan lingkungan di sekitar mereka.]

Final versus referral diagnosis of childhood visual impairment in an Italian tertiary low vision rehabilitation centre

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1156-1161
Author(s):  
Evelyn Longhin ◽  
Sara Segalina ◽  
Elisabetta Pilotto ◽  
Enrica Convento ◽  
Edoardo Midena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Retinopathy Of Prematurity ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Final Diagnosis ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Tertiary Centre ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children ◽  
Cerebral Visual Impairment

Purpose: To compare the final diagnosis of the causes of low vision in children attending a tertiary rehabilitation centre for visually impaired children versus referral diagnosis. Methods: Retrospective review of clinical charts of all children referred to the Robert Hollman Foundation, a tertiary centre for visually impaired children, between January 2010 and June 2011. The following clinical data were analysed: entry diagnosis made by the referral ophthalmologist and final diagnosis made at Robert Hollman Foundation based on a complete ophthalmic evaluation. Results: Ninety-two consecutive children (mean age = 2.37 ± 1.98 years, range = 0–9) were included. A referral diagnosis was retrieved in 76 cases (82.6%), including cerebral visual impairment (14.1%), retinopathy of prematurity (14.1%), hereditary retinal diseases (10.9%), nystagmus (8.7%) and other rarer diseases (34.8%). In the remaining 16 children (17.4%), a precise referral diagnosis was unavailable. Final clinical diagnosis made at Robert Hollman Foundation was normal visual function in 8.7%, cerebral visual impairment in 30.4%, retinopathy of prematurity in 10.9%, hereditary retinal disease in 9.8% and other in 40.2%. In 17 cases (18.5%), the diagnosis made at the Robert Hollman Foundation did not confirm the entry diagnosis. Among patients where measurement of visual acuity was possible (84), 66.7% were blind or seriously visual impaired, and the main causes were cerebral visual impairment (32.1%) and retinopathy of prematurity (16.1%). Conclusion: The most frequent diseases were cerebral visual impairment, retinopathy of prematurity and hereditary retinal diseases. Approximately one-third of referred children had not a correct diagnosis at baseline. The activity of an ophthalmic tertiary centre is essential to offer a precise diagnosis to visually impaired (sometimes with other deficits) children.

Perceptual-Motor Performance and the Social Development of Visually Impaired Children

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.C. Sleeuwenhoek ◽  
R.D. Boter ◽  
A. Vermeer
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Motor Performance ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Perceptual Motor Performance ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

This article presents a literature survey and conceptual model of the perceptual-motor performance of visually impaired children in relation to their social development. It examines the relationships between visual impairment and orientation, visual impairment and mobility, and motor performance and social integration.

scholarly journals DENTAL MORBIDITY IN BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
Сергей Чуйкин ◽  
Sergey Chuykin ◽  
Татьяна Снеткова ◽  
Tat`yana SNETKOVA ◽  
Галина Акатьева ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dental Caries ◽  
Oral Cavity ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Hygienic Condition ◽  
Dental Examination ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

Background. The article presents the results of a dental examination of 68 schoolchildren of 12-15 years with visual impairment. Objectives ― to study the dental status of blind and visually impaired children in the period of permanent bite, the necessity of sanation, the level of dental care. Methods. The prevalence and intensity of dental caries, dental-maxillary anomalies, soft tissue anomalies, functional disorders of the dental-maxillary system, the hygienic condition of the oral cavity, the necessity of sanation, the level of dental care of the examined schoolchildren were estimated. For determination of the intensity of dental caries the KPU index was used. The study of the structure of this index made it possible to determine the necessity of sanation of the oral cavity, the level of caries intensity (PEC index, Leus PA, 1990) and the level of dental care (USP index, Leus PA, 1988) in this category of schoolchildren. The hygienic condition of the oral cavity was estimated by the Green-Vermillion Index. The examination results were put down into the children’s registration cards of dental status (WHO, 2013). Results. During the dental examination, a high prevalence and intensity of dental caries, poor oral hygiene among schoolchildren aged 12-15 years with visual impairment were found. The majority of the examined children suffered from dental-maxillary anomalies, anomalies of soft tissues, dysfunction of the dental-maxillary system. Anomalies of separete teeth had the largest percentage among the tooth-jaw anomalies. As a result of the examination, a high necessity of sanation and an insufficient level of dental care were established. Conclusions. The results of this work indicate the necessity of the planning measures for the prevention and treatment of dental diseases of children with this pathology.

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