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Zabrocka, Monika – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2021
Purpose: This article's aim is to discuss the potential of audio description (AD) in two contexts: (1) developmental and educational difficulties experienced by children with low vision or total blindness; (2) psycho-social importance of access to mass media by children and adolescents. Method: The considerations presented here are formed on the…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Visual Impairments, Blindness, Children
Irene Vanderpuye; Isaac Nyame; Martha-Pearl Okai – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
This article investigates the challenges confronted by students with visual impairment at the University of Cape Coast. The researchers adopted the phenomenological design and utilised semi-structured interview guide and observation guide for the data collection. Through the purposive sampling technique, the views of students with visual…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Educational Experience, Student Attitudes
M. Ally Keene – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Blind youth have reported unfavorable PE experiences, however, are optimistic that positive changes could be made. Despite recommendations to involve students in learning decisions, those made for teaching blind youth in PE have largely been constructed from non-disabled adults. This dissertation used a participatory research method and positioned…
Descriptors: Blindness, Physical Education, Students with Disabilities, Physical Education Teachers
Kondellas, Bill; Fredericks, Marcel; Fredericks, Janet – American Educational History Journal, 2020
Early childhood instruction is a significant milestone in the development of a child. Educators, psychologists, and other school experts have developed materials and methods to make instructional practices more inclusive. During the process of educational reform, specialists in the field of education were confronted with epistemological concerns.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Special Schools, Blindness, Early Childhood Education
Fahimah Ali; Ben Braithwaite – Sign Language Studies, 2024
Deaf-sighted, deaf-blind, and hearing-sighted people have been interacting within a small community in the Bay Islands of Honduras for over a century (Ali 2023; Ali and Braithwaite 2020). In this article, we sketch the history of the community and the ways in which signers make use of their own and their interlocutor's bodies to co-construct…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Community, Deafness
Cain, Melissa; Fanshawe, Melissa – Infants and Young Children, 2021
This article presents the experiences of 2 mothers whose children were born blind. It relates their journey moving from the grief experienced when presented with the unexpected challenges of supporting a child with special needs to a position of empowerment after gaining the necessary knowledge and skills to integrate into their new and reimagined…
Descriptors: Mothers, Grief, Children, Blindness
Blair, Bradley – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
According to a recent Modern Language Association Report, American Sign Language (ASL) has displaced German at the college level in the United States to become the third most frequently studied language with between 100 and 200,000 students enrolled since 2013 (Looney & Lusin, 2019). ASL is an option for fulfilling foreign language…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Blindness, American Sign Language, Second Language Learning
Mahfuz, Saifullah; Sakib, Md Nazmus; Husain, M. M. – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
This article problematizes the status of the visually impaired students in Bangladesh under the COVID-19 global pandemic. We inquire into two inter-related questions: (a) what level and quality of technological access does a visually impaired student have in their higher education institution (e.g. a university or government-affiliated college…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
Steinbach, Sonja – NWEA, 2022
This review examines research on math achievement in students who are blind or visually impaired (BVI), and seeks to show the opportunities that BVIs have access to in order to demonstrate their knowledge of mathematics as well as the unique challenges they face and the ways in which these barriers have (or have not) been addressed. Math…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Blindness, Visual Impairments, Accessibility (for Disabled)
Kuo-Yen Huang; Wie-Cheng Chien; Yuexin Zhang; Sheng-Wie Wang; Qi Wang – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2025
This study examined the technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) profiles of teachers at special education schools for the blind and at general elementary schools in China. A total of 113 teachers in special schools and 193 teachers in general elementary schools were enrolled. A questionnaire was used as a quantitative method of data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Special Schools
Caron, Valérie; Barras, Alessio; van Nispen, Ruth M. A.; Ruffieux, Nicolas – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2023
Introduction: Social skills are acquired primarily through imitation using the visual system. As a result, people with visual impairments may experience difficulties in this area at any age, which can have a major effect on their social participation and on their quality of life. The objective of this study was to systematically review the effects…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Visual Impairments, Blindness
Albalhareth, Ali Hamad; Saleem, Suhib Saleem – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2023
This study investigates teacher satisfaction with available assistive technology (AT) for students with sensory impairments in their classrooms. The study group included teachers of deaf and hard of hearing (Dhh) and blind and visually impaired students in Najran region, a southern city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Assistive Technology, Blindness, Visual Impairments
Ibtisam Rashid; Dduha Chehadeh – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Hands-on chemistry experiments often stimulate students' curiosity about this subject, but blind or visually impaired (BVI) students usually do not get to participate in such hands-on activities. Thanks to adaptive methods and assisting technology, BVI students can actively participate in chemistry experiments. In this study, chemical laboratory…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
Fundelius, Erika – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite legislation being consistently passed to support post-secondary outcomes for students with disabilities, year after year since the completion of "The National Longitudinal Transition Studies," national employment statistics continually demonstrate that implementation of intentions is wanting. A large percentage --50-60%-- of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Self Determination, Teacher Education
Illinois State Board of Education, 2024
The 2023 Illinois Career and Technical Education Report is submitted in compliance with Illinois School Code 105 ILCS 435/2e, which requires a written career and technical education (CTE) report to be issued to the governor annually. This report describes the establishment of and delivery of CTE in Illinois, the existing condition of Illinois CTE…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Equal Education, Job Training, Sex Fairness