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Direct linkPapadimitriou, Vassilios; Argyropoulos, Vassilios – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
Purpose: The main objective of the present study was to examine the effect of word length, word frequency and number of syllables on graphemic errors during a text-reading task via the braille code. Method: Thirty students with severe visual impairments participated in the present study. They were invited individually to read aloud a number of…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Braille, Graphemes, Error Patterns
Papadopoulos, Konstantinos; Papakonstantinou, Doxa – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine the association between social support from friends and depression in young adults with visual impairments. Forty young adults with visual impairments, ranging in age from 18 to 40 years, completed the 21-item Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-I) and a self-developed social support questionnaire. Significant…
Descriptors: Friendship, Social Support Groups, Depression (Psychology), Young Adults
Download full textArgyropoulos, Vassilios; Hathazi, Andrea; Nikolaraizi, Magda – Higher Education Studies, 2019
Developing braille literacy skills represents one of the major goals of the education process for students with vision impairment. Fluency and accuracy in reading and writing facilitate access to information, development of knowledge, active participation, functionality, and independence in social contexts. One of the essential factors that can…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Braille, Literacy
Theodorou, Paraskevi; Meliones, Apostolos – Education Sciences, 2020
The development of mobile apps, which are either suitably adapted or especially designed for use by sensory-deprived people, have contributed significantly to the continuously increasing adoption of digital assistive technologies by people with disabilities. Throughout the design of two assistive navigation mobile apps for blind and visually…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Assistive Technology, Computer Software, Telecommunications
Papadopoulos, Konstantinos; Charitakis, Konstantinos; Koustriava, Eleni; Kouroupetroglou, Georgios; Stiefelhagen, Rainer; Stylianidis, Efstratios; Gumus, Suad Sakalli – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2020
Introduction: This study investigated the user requirements of individuals with visual impairments regarding the information to be included in orientation and mobility (O&M) aids in order for optimally useful audio-tactile maps of campuses to be developed. In addition, this study aimed at investigating the importance (usefulness) that…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Information Needs, Physical Environment, Assistive Technology
Papasalouros, Andreas; Tsolomitis, Antonis – Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities, 2017
The TeX/LaTeX typesetting system is the most wide-spread system for creating documents in Mathematics and Science. However, no reliable tool exists to this day for automatically transcribing documents from the above formats into Braille/Nemeth code. Thus, visually impaired students of related fields do not have access to the bulk of study material…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Braille, Tactile Adaptation
Akmese, Pelin Pistav; Kayhan, Nilay – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
The academic terms and the periods of the courses related to the language development and communication differs considerably in the programs of the countries which train teachers for the special education department. The aim of this study is to examine the contents and credits of the communication and the language development courses in Teacher…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy
