Visual Impairments
Testing the effectiveness of a mentoring intervention to improve social participation of adolescents with visual impairments: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... a visual impairment in combination with care-as-usual, 40 participants will receive Mentor Support by mentors without visual impairments in combination with care-as-usual, and 40 participants will ...
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Academic impediments students with visual impairments encounter in the Colleges of University of Rwanda
... with visual impairments also tire visually and may need short breaks or different approaches to the same task, for example, listening to audio tapes after reading a few ...specific visual disorder ...
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Challenges in accessing electronic information resources by students with visual impairments in Kenyatta University Post Modern Library
... A study by (Brophy & Craven, 2014) also found out that users with visual impairments face the challenge of web inaccessibility. The information provided on screen must be presented in a way that can be ...
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The representation of people with visual impairments on five art museums websites.
... The analysed discourses that one can find in the webpages of Van Gogh Museum, Van Abbemuseum, Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona provide ...
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A prototype power assist wheelchair that provides for obstacle detection and avoidance for those with visual impairments
... One unanticipated benefit of using power assist hubs which emerged during development was the ability to provide "haptic feedback" to the wheelchair user. As the SPAM approaches an obstacle, the hubs provide ...
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Assessment of quality of life in patients with visual impairments using a new visual function questionnaire: the VFQ-J11
... of visual impairments might not be a representative sampling of the Japanese ...and visual field defects. For this purpose, visual function indices such as the ...
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Comparative analysis of computer-vision and BLE technology based indoor navigation systems for people with visual impairments
... with visual impairments where merit of one system will compensate the limitation of other such as QR code recognition or BLE beacons positioning can solve the issue of recogniz- ing locations with similar ...
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Determinants of Pace of Learning For Learners With Visual Impairments at St. Francis School For The Blind, Pokot County, Kenya
... poor visual figure ground skills as well as poor visual closure skills encounter difficulties to analyze details in a book and even to fill incomplete detail (Holland, ...with visual problems often ...
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Undergraduate Educational Experiences: The Academic Success of College Students with Blindness and Visual Impairments
... How one views and feels about one’s self is important. Students with blindness and visual impairments who understand and accept their blindness have a more positive sense of self. Upon reflection for those ...
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Investigating design issues of context-aware mobile guides for people with visual impairments
... between visual impairments and contextual environments, and offer very little context-awareness – usability issues of which are vital in supporting independent ...of visual impairment is incidental ...
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Strategies for Enhancing Access and Retention of Learners with Visual Impairments in Universal Primary Education Schools in South Western Uganda Region
... with Visual Impairment (ICEVI 2005) was conducted to investigate the educational inclusion of ...with visual impairment who had dropped out of ...with visual impairments began school late, had ...
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Towards seeing the visual impairments in Parkinson’s disease: protocol for a multicentre observational, cross-sectional study
... of visual impairments are treatable or ...of visual problems and the resultant visual im- pairment has remained severely under-recognized, both in research and in clinical ...of visual ...
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Introduction. Affirmation. Before the course begins. Some facts about visual impairments
... This guide is intended to help instructors at the École de langues who have students with visual impairments. The École de langues wishes to contribute to creating a university milieu that is inclusive. The ...
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Evaluation of self-defence for people with visual impairments – methodology aspects
... with visual impairment, and a survey among people with visual impairment); the third section: asks participants about their strategies in the field of self‑defence (Table ...
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Design and evaluation of auditory spatial cues for decision making within a game environment for persons with visual impairments
... The results found in this study provide a good indication that the auditory interface created for this game can be used to properly convey the spatial relationships needed for users to create proper mental maps of a 2D ...
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Curriculum Barriers to Teaching Orientation and Mobility in Selected Schools for Learners with Visual Impairments, West Pokot and Siaya Counties, Kenya
... with visual impairment this can incredibly influence their capacity to walk securely and autonomously within the environment (Gilbert &Foster, ...with visual impairments in orientation and ...
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Factors Influencing the Use of Assistive Technology in Teaching Mathematics to Learners with Visual Impairments in Special Primary Schools in Kenya
... Mwakyeja (2013) carried out a case study in one of the secondary schools in Tanzania on the way teachers taught students with VI in inclusive education and the challenges they faced. The study adopted qualitative case ...
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Accessibility Analysis of Multilingual Websites for Persons with Visual Impairments
... experiencing visual impairments face many barriers while navigating and interacting with multilingual ...with visual impairments with respect to the problems that they encounter while browsing ...
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Degraded reality: Using VR/AR to simulate visual impairments
... Visual impairments are most commonly simulated by superimpos- ing the source image with an overlay: typically, one or more ‘black blobs’ of varying size, shape, and opacity (see ...of visual ...
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EVALUATION/ All students with visual impairments will receive comprehensive services to ensure academic excellence.
... Goal: All students with visual impairments will receive comprehensive services to ensure academic excellence. Objective: Students will receive instruction in academic and compensator[r] ...
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