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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
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Argyropoulos, Vassilis; Papadimitriou, Vassilios – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2015
Introduction: The present study assesses the performance of students who are visually impaired (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) in braille reading accuracy and examines potential correlations among the error categories on the basis of gender, age at loss of vision, and level of education. Methods: Twenty-one visually impaired…
Descriptors: Braille, Visual Impairments, Blindness, Gender Differences
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Papadopoulos, Konstantinos; Koustriava, Eleni; Kartasidou, Lefkothea – Journal of Special Education, 2012
The aim of this study is to examine the ability of children and adolescents with visual impairments to code and represent near space. Moreover, it examines the impact of the strategies they use and individual differences in their performance. A total of 30 individuals with visual impairments up to the age of 18 were given eight different object…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Visual Impairments, Children, Individual Differences