scholarly journals Disability and Children as Begging Guides: For how Long Shall Children be Used as Begging Guides by Visually Impaired Persons in Africa?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 601-614
Author(s):  
Samuel Chukwudi Agunyai ◽  
Victor Ojakorotu
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Financial Gain ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Sensory Disabilities ◽  
Health Complications ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

This study examines the effect of using children as begging guides by people with sensory disabilities in Africa. It argues that in some African countries, visually impaired persons, especially parents and relatives, have devised the strategy of abusing their children or someone very close to them as begging guides for financial gain. While this strategy has remained a recurrent problem with severe social, economic, political, and legal implications, scientific research on addressing these implications is scarce. Given this, the article examines the rationale for using children as begging guides, its effects on the children and visually impaired parents, and mitigation strategies against abuse of children as begging guides in Africa. The qualitative research design based on key informant interviews (KIIs) complemented social exclusion and childhood theoretical underpinnings of the study. Results from (KIIs) showed that poverty, religion, cultural beliefs, financial profiteering, poor governance, breakdown in policy implementation against begging are among the rationale why children are abused and used as begging guides. The results also showed that these children experience low academic performance in school, harassment, psychological trauma, health complications from laborious trekking. At the same time, their visually impaired parents suffer from regrets and guilt of not being able to provide good parental care to their children. It concludes that good rehabilitation, vocational programmes, and prompt government supports for people with sensory disabilities would lessen the abuse and use of children as begging guides in Africa.

scholarly journals Information Technology and Transcription of Reading Materials for the Visually Impaired Persons in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Nkiko ◽  
Morayo I. Atinmo ◽  
Happiness Chijioke Michael-Onuoha ◽  
Julie E. Ilogho ◽  
Michael O. Fagbohun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Information Materials ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

Studies have shown inadequate reading materials for the visually impaired in Nigeria. Information technology has greatly advanced the provision of information to the visually impaired in other industrialized climes. This study investigated the extent of application of information technology to the transcription of reading materials for the visually impaired in Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design of the ex-post facto to select 470 personnel as respondents. A questionnaire titled Information Technology Use Scale (α=0.74), and Interview Schedule (α=0.75), were used. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The findings indicate that information technology in transcription was low and a significant positive relationship between application of information technology and transcription of information materials (r=0.62: p<0.05). The study recommended among others that Multi-National Corporations should be sensitized to extend their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to help in procuring modern information technology devices and software to enhance transcription.

scholarly journals A Survey on Mathematical Software Tools for Visually Impaired Persons: A Practical Perspective

IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Paul Mejia ◽  
Luiz Cesar Martini ◽  
Felipe Grijalva ◽  
Julio Cesar Larco ◽  
Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Mathematical Software ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

scholarly journals Conveying facial expressions to blind and visually impaired persons through a wearable vibrotactile device

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. e0194737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik P. Buimer ◽  
Marian Bittner ◽  
Tjerk Kostelijk ◽  
Thea M. van der Geest ◽  
Abdellatif Nemri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

Computerized Image Enhancement for Visually Impaired Persons: New Technology, New Possibilities

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (7) ◽  
pp. 849-854
Author(s):  
E. Pell ◽  
L. E. Arend ◽  
G. T. Timberlake
Keyword(s):  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Visual Degradation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons ◽  
Made In

Patients with age-related visual loss suffer reduced ability to recognize faces and other scenes in photographs and on television. Recently, progress has been made in image enhancement, using controlled distortion of digitally stored images that increases their usefulness in particular applications. Described are two approaches to image enhancement for the visually impaired. In one approach, the visual losses that characterize individual patients and disease classes are described using detailed measurements of visual degradation transfer functions, which are profiles of loss of image information at various spatial scales. The particular distortion used for image enhancement is then adjusted to the impairment of the individual patient or disease class. A second approach takes advantage of the resemblance between the visual losses of many patients and the degradation of picture information in other applications due to external limitations (e.g., fog and haze) on photography. Several enhancement algorithms have been found useful with such images and may also improve picture recognition by the visually impaired.

Listening: A Teachable Skill for Visually Impaired Persons

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Robert W. Bischoff
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Compressed Speech ◽  
Visually Impaired Students ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

Reviews the literature on listening and describes ways of helping visually impaired students to improve their listening skills. Discusses advantages of compressed speech.

Night Vision Aid Option: Streamlights

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
pp. 1005-1006
Author(s):  
V. L. Mosler
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Night Blindness ◽  
Night Vision ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

Other authors have compared commercially available night vision aids used by visually impaired persons who have night blindness. The Wide Angle Mobility Lantern (WAML) is usually the more recommended device. This article suggests that other night vision aids, as yet unmentioned in the literature, may be equally effective and sometimes preferred to the WAML. Lights in the Streamlight series are comparable in price and size to the WAML and are more widely available. Personnel working with school-aged children who are night blind are encouraged to provide them with information about, and hands-on experience with, various night vision aids.

Approaches to Increasing Assertive Behavior and Communication Skills in Blind and Visually Impaired Persons

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 794-798
Author(s):  
Rona L. Harrell ◽  
Felice A. Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Assertive Behavior ◽  
Structured Intervention ◽  
Impaired Person ◽  
Assertion Training ◽  
Partially Sighted ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

Many visually impaired individuals are found to be too passive or too aggressive in their social interactions. Lack of assertive behavior is related to the concept of learned helplessness. Components of assertive behavior are described with suggestions for enabling the visually impaired person to develop these skills. The underlying concepts of assertion training are explained along with specific techniques to be utilized in the school or rehabilitative setting. With a structured intervention resulting in improved assertiveness skills, blind or partially sighted individuals can increase their effectiveness in communicating with others and can feel more in control of their lives.

Research on Blinking-Luminescence Travel Support for Visually Impaired Persons

2017 ◽  
pp. 319-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomohiro Okada ◽  
Takashi Miyamoto ◽  
Shin-ichi Ito ◽  
Katsuya Sato ◽  
Norihiro Ikeda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons
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