Evalution of useful skills on children and students with impered vision – an empirical study

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petya Marcheva-Yoshovska ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Independent Life ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

One of the main goals in the education of visually impaired children and pupils in Bulgaria is their preparation for independent life, which is accomplished through a curriculum of special subjects. The leading place among them takes the useful skills program. The report provides a brief overview of the scientific literature on the issue in question, and revealing opportunities to support the overall development of visually impaired learners. In this connection, the results of assessing the social skills of visually impaired children are presented using the checklist of Sasks and Siberman

‘I don't know what you're trying to establish’: The Housing and Urban ‘Problems’ of Visually Impaired Children

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Allen ◽  
Joanne Milner
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

This paper uses the social model of disability to examine visually impaired children's experiences of their housing and neighbourhoods and finds that they did not experience any significant problems with the design of them. The source of their problems was within these environments, and was caused by factors such as the intensity of movement, for example, from flows of traffic. We conclude by discussing the social policy implications of these findings.

scholarly journals THE QUALIFICATION IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIAL WORKERS WORKING IN CHILDREN‘S CARE HOMES IN THE CONTEXT OF THEIR RESTRUCTURING

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Vida Gudzinskienė ◽  
Rita Raudeliūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Independent Life

The article analyses the qualification improvement of social workers, who work in children‘s care homes, in the context of their restructuring. A qualitative-empirical study has been conducted by using the method of a semi-structured interview. The study data were processed by using the method of content analysis. The results of the empirical study are based on the experience of 14 social workers, who work in care institutions, which participate in the restructuring, which consists of the changeover from institutional care to the services that are provided to children, who have become destitute of parental care, in a family and community. Internal (an aspiration for a continuous qualification improvement and the desire to share professional experience) and external (changes related to the restructuring, ever higher requirements for social workers, the encouragement and support of the administration of institutions to improve their qualification) stimuli to improve qualification have been highlighted. The most relevant topics of qualification improvement for social workers are the development of personal and social skills in children, the preparation of them for an independent life, the solution of behavioural and psychological problems in children and the preparedness of social workers themselves for the restructuring and the need for supervisions. The topics, which  meet their needs, are: the development of social skills, the communication with children and the preparation of them for a family. According to the informants, there is a lack of trainings oriented towards the solution of practical problems which arise while organizing the restructuring. The following problems related to the improvement of qualification were highlighted: the mismatch between the teaching topics and the content, during the trainings for social worker, who work in children‘s care homes, the problems of other social groups, but not of children are analysed. During trainings, there is a lack of the detailed examination of the solution of practical problems. The social workers lack trainings related to the preparation for the restructuring.

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.

Visually Impaired Children II: Intervention Strategies

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Erchul ◽  
Barbara D. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

Using Maslow's (1973) Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs as an organizational scheme, this article offers an overview of interventions which are commonly used with visually impaired children. These strategies include: counselling parents to aid acceptance of their child, providing stimulation and enrichment to enhance psychological development, increasing visual efficiency, aiding orientation and mobility, decreasing undesirable behaviours, increasing social skills, fostering classroom acceptance, facilitating academic learning, and counselling the child to aid self-acceptance.

Low Vision Enhancement: The Use of Figure–Ground Reversals with Visually Impaired Children

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence R. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Visual Functioning ◽  
Black Background ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Visually Impaired Children

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.

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