Diagram describing texts are integral part of science and engineering subjects including geometry, physics, engineering drawing, etc. In order to understand such text, one, at first, tries to draw or perceive the underlying diagram. For perception of the blind students such diagrams need to be drawn in some non-visual accessible form like tactile graphics. Technologies for producing tactile gra...

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the most important causes of childhood blindness worldwide. The trend of ROP in Malaysia was unclear because there was no national registry before 2002. The purpose of this study is to analyze ROP students of different ages in the schools for the blind in Malaysia in order to evaluate the trend of ROP from 1992 to 2001. Data were obtained from a previo...

PURPOSE To identify the causes of blindness and visual impairment among students in integrated schools for the blind in Nepal. METHODS A total of 778 students from all 67 integrated schools for the blind in Nepal were examined using the World Health Organization/Prevention of Blindness Eye Examination Record for Children with Blindness and Low Vision during the study period of 3 years. RESU...

Objectives To determine the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness (SVI/BL) among students in schools for the blind in Northwest Ethiopia and to identify preventable and treatable causes. Method Students attending nine schools for the blind in Northwest Ethiopia were examined and causes assigned using the standard WHO record form for children with blindness and low vision in May and...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools in two towns in rural Chaoshan, China. The two towns were randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Road safety education mat...

BACKGROUND The present study is first of its kind to evaluate causes of visual impairment of blind students in Nepal and assess their need for low vision rehabilitation services. AIM To evaluate causes of vision impairment of students enrolled in blind schools in Nepal and assess the need for low vision rehabilitation services in these students. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey was conducted ...

langacker provided new schema-based descriptions of linguistic categories when he was questioning traditional theories of categorization. langecker's model of grammar deals with the reflection of grammatical subsystems of concepts related to space and time in language. also he explains how phenomena such as attention and point of view are encoded in language. the present research aimed to ...

OASIS (Organizing, Annotating, and Serving Information to Students without Sight) is a novel assistive and rehabilitative system to help students who are blind in accessing digital libraries, with the goal of helping them solve complex problems, using multiple books and other digital information sources simultaneously. Currently, users who are blind can access digital information only with the ...