The Effectiveness of Low Vision Aids for Low Vision College Students in Central Taiwan Area

• Main Authors: CHUNG-WEI HSIEH, 謝仲威
• Other Authors: 陳賢堂
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rw54hb

碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 生物醫學科學學系碩士班 === 103 === Transition into a college environment, which is different from a familiar-grounds in previous high school. The Low vision aids are needed to deal with the diversification of the class in college. Whether the LV aids cope with these changes or a change in aids is needed because of the studying environment these are questions that need to be answered. If aids are not suitable to meet the new demands, this would cause life and learning become difficult. We examine whether low vision college students living in their college environment can fully use LV aids, and offer suggestions, ideas for the use of these LV aids. This study is both a subjective and objective study. Visual functional status, and objective data were obtained from optic aids; Visual quality of Life and LV aid usage were subjective data obtained by interviews. To obtain subjective data, semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand how low vision college students use LV aids and how they fell about using them. In this study, we conducted a total of eight interviews with visually impaired students studying at the college of central Taiwan area. The degree of visual impairment were divided into severe, moderate, mild and slightly less categories. Results and discussion sections describes information collected from the interviews, and case analysis. Advices were also given. It is into three major aspects, including visual function, visual of Life, and aids usage. Visual function analysis focused on the visual impairment and visual functional status. Information on visual of Life and aids usage, were conducted through interviews with the visually impaired students to obtain their opinions about their conditions, and to summarize their situations. Advices were also given.