Students often have difficulty grasping the advantages of the various peer review systems used in scientific publishing. In the described exercise, students are assigned a current study and then write three two-page critiques of the article. The three critiques occur at different times in the semester, and thus the students have differing knowledge bases. The critiques are then assigned to othe...

OBJECTIVE To find out the psychosocial implications of blindness and low vision in students of blind school Bahawalpur. METHODS A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out in Higher Secondary School for blind, Bahawalpur after getting approval from Institutional review board of Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur and Principal of Blind School, Bahawalpur. Forty willing students f...

This study investigated attitudes toward Native-themed mascots in the context of color-blind racial attitudes. Results indicate that higher color-blind racial attitudes are related to lower awareness of the offensiveness of Native-themed mascots. The researchers tested the effectiveness of a training intervention designed to produce attitudinal change among master's level counseling students. R...

In Indonesia, an education system is implemented where students with special learning needs can get in public schools. One type of child accepted by schools blind. Blind children usually have various things during learning, such as difficulty understanding abstract concepts, low motivation, slow to understand the material, and need repetitive material. Therefore, community service required prov...

formules mathématiques par des élèves ou étudiants aveugles, Comme les Autres: Interfaes multimodales pour handicapés visuels, Special number 1, pp. 97-104.

Educational discussion boards are growing in use as they help students share knowledge and doubts in a working/studying environment. Although these interactive tools are highly effective in learning environments, their usability by blind students is very poor. In this paper we develop techniques to improve accessibility of educational content for students who are blind. Threads of messages in d...

OBJECTIVE To identify the causes of blindness in children attending a school for the blind in Hong Kong. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING School for blind children in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Eighty-two blind students at the Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired were examined between December 1998 and August 1999. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Demographic data wer...