RETROLENTAL fibroplasia is a major cause of blindness in children. It is usually found in premature children; that is to say, in those with a birthweight of under 5j lb (2,500 g.). In the years that followed Terry's original description the incidence of the disease rose steeply and alarmingly. Krause (1955) has estimated that 10,000 children are partly or completely blind from retrolental fibro...

BACKGROUND Vision impairment in children is one of the most severe disabilities that cause stress in parents. Therefore, it seems necessary to establish and conduct interventions for controlling parenting stress and preventing its negative consequences. This study aimed to investigate the effect of life skills training (LST) program on parenting stress of mothers with blind children aged 7 to 1...

In this paper we evaluate how speaker familiarity influences the engagement times and performance of blind school children when playing audio games made with different synthetic voices. We developed synthetic voices of school children, their teachers and of speakers that were unfamiliar to them and used each of these voices to create variants of two audio games: a memory game and a labyrinth ga...

Seventy-eight children, referred to a diet clinic because of hyperactive behaviour, were placed on a 'few foods' elimination diet. Fifty nine improved in behaviour during this open trial. For 19 of these children it was possible to disguise foods or additives, or both, that reliably provoked behavioural problems by mixing them with other tolerated foods and to test their effect in a placebo con...

This paper focuses on developing, testing, and examining the Proagents multimodal learning environment to support blind children’s explorative learning in the area of astronomy. We utilize haptic, auditive, and visual interaction. Haptic and auditory feedbacks make the system accessible to blind children. The system is used as an exploration tool for children’s spontaneous and question-driven e...

Background: Visual impairment affects all movement aspects of children. Furthermore, moving, as the primary means of physical education, is essential for promoting health in disabled children. Therefore, the present study determined the effect of core stability exercises on the risk of falling and the quality of life in blind individuals. Methods: In this quasi-experimental research, 30 blind ...

AIMS To describe the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness (SVI/BL) in children in schools for the blind in north India, and explore temporal trends in the major causes. METHODS A total of 703 children were examined in 13 blind schools in Delhi. A modified WHO/PBL eye examination record for children with blindness and low vision which included sections on visual acuity, additional ...

Aims: To describe the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness (SVI/BL) in children in schools for the blind in north India, and explore temporal trends in the major causes. Methods: A total of 703 children were examined in 13 blind schools in Delhi. A modified WHO/PBL eye examination record for children with blindness and low vision which included sections on visual acuity, additional ...

• They are not blind, so rehabilitation workers may not feel able to help them • Clinicians (ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses, and other mid-level personnel) feel there is nothing more they can do • Optometrists and refractionists can improve their vision, but cannot help them to see ‘normally’ • Special education teachers are usually trained just to work with children who are blind, and may...