Listening to Voices of Children with a Visual Impairment: A Focus Group Study

Autor/inn/en	Khadka, Jyoti; Ryan, Barbara; Margrain, Tom H.; Woodhouse, J. Margaret; Davies, Nathan
Titel	Listening to Voices of Children with a Visual Impairment: A Focus Group Study
Quelle	In: British Journal of Visual Impairment, 30 (2012) 3, S.182-196 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0264-6196
DOI	10.1177/0264619612453105
Schlagwörter	Visual Impairments; Qualitative Research; Focus Groups; Student Attitudes; Life Style; Comparative Analysis; Children; Adolescents; Daily Living Skills; Attitude Measures; Foreign Countries; Leisure Time; Recreational Activities; School Attitudes; Friendship; Interpersonal Relationship; Urban Areas; Geographic Location; Student Interests; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Qualitative Forschung; Schülerverhalten; Lebensstil; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Alltagsfertigkeit; Ausland; Freizeit; Freizeitgestaltung; Freundschaft; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Urban area; Stadtregion; Studieninteresse
Abstract	The purpose of the study was to identify the educational, social and leisure activities and issues that matter to school children and young people with a visual impairment and to compare their lifestyle with fully sighted counterparts. Thirteen focus groups were conducted and the groups were stratified by age, gender, visual status and school location (urban and non-urban). The sessions were audio taped, transcribed verbatim, coded using NVivo software and a qualitative data analysis was carried out to identify the main themes. Eighty-one children and young people aged between 5-18 years participated in the focus groups; 34 were visually impaired (22 boys) and 47 were fully sighted (24 boys). In total, 121 different daily living activities important to children and young people were discussed in the focus groups. Results suggested that children and young people with a visual impairment have similar lifestyles to their fully sighted counterparts but are more restricted in some specific activities. The children and young people also reported that sometimes these restrictions were imposed by those supporting them rather than their own abilities. This information provided an in-depth understanding of the impact of visual impairment in school-aged children and young people. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10