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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Visual impairments"”.
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Object perception for students with visual impairments: A virtual reality approach
… educational experiences for students with visual impairments (VI). It examined how VR could improve object perception and detail identification, increasing accessibility and addressing limitations of traditional visual-centric teaching methods. Procedure: A quantitative approach with …
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Intelligence Testing For Persons With Visual Impairments: Haptic Matrices Intelligence Assessment
… tools that are inappropriate for use with visually-impaired examinees. Therefore, ecological validity was examined (via convergent validity) with an instrument more commonly used in clinical applications (e.g. the WAIS-IV). Utilizing the WAIS-IV allowed for more reliable estimates of …
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Improving Content Design on Mobile Devices to Reduce Situational Visual Impairments
… incorrect key presses.<br/><br/>Situational visual impairments (SVIs) are one type of usability and accessibility challenge mobile device user's face (e.g., not being able to read and reply to an important email when outside under bright sunlight), which suggests that current mobile industry …
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Evaluating College Biology Laboratory Accommodations For Students With Blindness And Visual Impairments
… learning. However, students with blindness and visual impairments (BVI) often confront obstacles to active participation in the required activities of the college biology laboratory. Legislation requires institutions of higher education to provide accommodations for students with disabilities, …
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The Effect of Repeated Reading with Middle School Students with Visual Impairments
… achievement of middle school students with visual impairments. Using a matched subject research design, two pairs of students were matched on the following variables: reading level, reading medium and the presence or absence of additional disabilities. One student from each matched pair was …
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Virtual Reality as Navigation Tool: Creating Interactive Environments For Individuals With Visual Impairments
… and mobility assistance tool for people with visual impairments. Some of the challenges are developing useful knowledge of the user’s surroundings and effectively conveying that information to the user. This thesis examines the feasibility of using virtual environments conveyed via auditory …
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Overcoming Negative Employer Attitudes: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Employeees with Visual Impairments
<p>Negative employer attitudes toward people with visual impairments who are already employed is a topic that rarely has been discussed in the literature. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore, understand, and describe how employees with visual impairments process …
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Exploring how young women with visual impairments navigate their participation in recreational sport
… focused on the experiences of women with vision impairments specifically. Further, none of them foregrounded a focus on how participation in recreational sports might be facilitated. This study therefore aimed to explore how women with vision impairments navigate their participation in …
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Generating Efficient Feedback and Enabling Interaction in Virtual Worlds for Users with Visual Impairments
… education and business. However, for users with visual impairments, accessing virtual worlds and benefiting from its facilities is rather challenging because of a number of important accessibility barriers. Our previous research effort, TextSL, has overcome perhaps the biggest barrier by …
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Towards Understanding and Developing Virtual Environments to Increase Accessibilities for People with Visual Impairments
… Interaction Virtual Environments (VEs) without visual feedback for people with Visual Impairments. Efforts have been made to apply virtual reality (VR) technology for training and educational applications for diverse population groups, such as children and stroke patients. Those applications had …
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The Relationship Between Visual Impairments and Socioeconomic Level Based on a Preschool Vision Screening Program.
… of children is closely related to adequate visual functioning. Uncorrected visual defects can lead to more serious ocular damage. The distorted sensory information may hinder educational achievement as some 80 percent of learning occurs through the visual mode (Sherman, 1972), and inaccurate …
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Autoethnographic Exploration: A Native Non-Native in the World of Learners with Hidden Visual Impairments
… educator, I have strong ties to people with visual impairments including close family members. As an insider, I have the privilege of observing and experiencing first-hand the challenges and triumphs of individuals with visual impairments. I wrestle with how my observations and interactions …
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Personality Characteristics, Career Awareness, and Job Expectations of New Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments
… the ever-increasing population of students with visual impairments requiring specialized training.This study investigated the personality and background experiences of individuals who are attracted to work as educators with students with visual impairments. A sample of 132 teachers who had been …
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Exploring assistive transfer systems for people with visual impairments in addressing privacy and security tasks
People with visual impairments (PVIs) often face challenges when dealing with day-to-day visual tasks such as solving visual CAPTCHAs or screening pictures before posting them on social media. What if PVIs could transfer these visual tasks to a helper to solve? We introduce assistive transfer …
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Development And Outcomes Of An Experientially-Based Nonverbal Social Skills Curriculum For Youth With Visual Impairments
… of social skills training for youth with visual impairments has been widely researched within educational and rehabilitation settings. To date, social skills training curricula for visually impaired youth have largely utilized verbally-based methods for instruction and training. Given the …
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Perspectives of lecturers on pedagogical inclusion of students with visual impairments at higher education institutions in Namibia
… on pedagogical inclusion of Students with Visual Impairments (SVI) in higher education institutions in Namibia. The study aimed at assessing the perspectives of lecturers with the objective of determining the pedagogical approaches they used and their standpoints, their experiences, their …
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Academic and campus experiences of college students with visual impairments in Vietnam: a multiple case-based study
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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School Based HIV and AIDS Interventions for Girls with Visual Impairments (GVIs)In Selected Secondary Schools in Tanzania.
… Syndrome (AIDS) exist among girls with visual impairments (GVIs) but little research has been done in addressing this concern. There is so far no information about the number of GVIs who have been infected or died through HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. Campaigns on HIV/AIDS prevention have not …
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