Braille Literacy Skills: An Analysis of the Concept of Spelling

Argyropoulos, Vassilios; Martos, Aineias

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“…This appears to hold true in studies related to the education of low health literate individuals; Schwartzberg, Cowett, Vangeest, and Wolf (2007), for example, recently reported that drawing pictures was one of the most effective and underused techniques for educating low health literate individuals. However, the way in which vision is used to construe the world might create varied understandings of content in sighted persons versus those with VIs (Argyropoulos & Martos, 2006). In other words, the medium used to convey messages might create differences in how the messages are understood, which may affect how people with VIs understand health messages that are usually designed for and conveyed to sighted people.…”

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Health Literacy Issues Among Women with Visual Impairments

Harrison¹,

Mackert²,

Watkins³

2010

Research in Gerontological Nursing

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The purpose of this secondary analysis using qualitative description was to explore health literacy from the healthcare experiences of women with permanent visual impairments. Interviews from a sample of 15 community-residing women age 44 to 79 years with permanent visual impairments who had participated in a larger grounded theory study were analyzed. The 15 women were interviewed twice, with each interview lasting up to three hours. The audio-taped interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Using the Institute of Medicine's definition of health literacy, the women's experiences were categorized into their ability to obtain, process, and understand health information. Their perceptions of the factors that influenced their health literacy were also explored. The women voiced that barriers to their ability to gain information in a format amenable to their processing skills, combined with barriers arising from healthcare providers' attitudes, undermined their ability to build health literacy capacity. KeywordsVisual impairment; disability; aging; aging with disability; women Problems surrounding health literacy, a person's ability to "obtain, process and understand basic health related information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions" (Ratzan & Parker, 2000, p. vi), are estimated to be responsible for nearly 70 billion dollars in healthcare related costs (Zarcadoolas, Pleasant, & Greer, 2006). Lapses in appropriate communications between health care providers and the people they serve further exacerbate the problem of low health literacy in the provision of effective health care. According to Thorne, Harris, Majoney, Con, and McGuinness (2004), people with chronic conditions that seek healthcare experience problems that include the perceptions that providers withhold information, interact disrespectfully, and block access to expertise. The aging, visually impaired population may be at risk for low health literacy and poor communication with health care providers. Despite this risk, little attention has been paid to the health literacy needs of those aging with visual impairments. The purpose of this paper is to report on a qualitative analysis of how 15 women with visual impairments (VIs) attempted to promote their health in the U.S. healthcare system. This analysis was performed based on the current conceptualization of health literacy as proposed by the Institute of Medicine [IOM] (2004).

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“…Educators have long considered literacy a high priority for those with VIs (Argyropoulos & Martos, 2006; Rex, 1989). Literacy is a key skill for persons with VIs living in today’s world (Schroeder, 1989).…”

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Health Literacy Issues Among Women with Visual Impairments

Harrison¹,

Mackert²,

Watkins³

2010

Research in Gerontological Nursing

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“…It allows a great number of educational accommodations to be implemented -or at least to be piloted -and also constitutes an effective means of communication. However, little research has been done to document the parameters of the impact that computers and speech output software have on blind students' literacy skills (Argyropoulos and Martos, 2006). These studies need to increase and be extended in the area of comprehension to draw reliable inferences regarding the effectiveness of the various auditory manipulations.…”

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Auditory discriminations of typographic attributes of documents by students with blindness

Argyropoulos

Sideridis

Xydas

2009

British Journal of Visual Impairment

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A B S T R AC T The general purpose of the present study was to test the effectiveness of various psycho-acoustic manipulations for the understanding of specific information (typographic attributes such as bold and italic) which was included in texts by individuals with and without blindness. Thirty blind and thirty sighted students participated and were asked to distinguish a number of controlled conditions of auditory components, as well as to express their preferences and opinions on the prosody of the selected acoustic features (pitch, volume and speed of the synthetic speech). Findings indicated that there were significant interactions between groups and experimental conditions across variables. The outcomes of the present study provided a rough assessment of the auditory means that may be conducive to the understanding of the specific typographic attributes. Based on these findings Text-to-Speech systems can deliver such information with all the appropriate auditory prosody in order to facilitate blind students' memorization and comprehension and enhance inclusion. K E Y WO R D S sound fonts, text-to-speech conversion, typographic attributes, visual impairment

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“…Em pesquisa específica acerca do desenvolvimento da escrita ortográfica em crianças deficientes visuais, Arter e Mason (1994) pontuaram a importância do aprendizado da ortografia por meio de atividades que visem a reflexão acerca da língua escrita. Adicionalmente, grande relevância é atribuída ao domínio ortográfico pelos próprios jovens cegos (Argyropoulos & Martos, 2006), tanto para a sua inserção no ambiente escolar quanto para facilitar a comunicação escrita. Segundo Argyropoulos e Martos (2006), os jovens apontam ainda o domínio da ortografia como uma das qualificações mais básicas para o ingresso no mercado de trabalho.…”

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Habilidades cognitivo-linguísticas e segmentação lexical em Braille

Nicolaiewsky

Corrêa

2009

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)

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O presente estudo examinou a relação entre habilidades cognitivas e linguísticas e segmentação lexical na produção textual em braille de 21 alunos dos três primeiros anos do ensino fundamental de instituição especializada em deficiência visual. A habilidade de demarcar os limites das palavras no texto é desenvolvida ao longo do processo de aquisição da língua escrita, sendo fundamental para a compreensão textual. Foi investigada a ocorrência de hipossegmentações (junção de duas ou mais palavras) e hipersegmentações (espaço indevido inserido em uma palavra) na produção escrita de histórias. Houve predominância de hipossegmentações. Os participantes que apresentaram maior número de hipossegmentações em sua escrita obtiveram desempenho mais baixo nas tarefas referentes à habilidade verbal, memória de trabalho, consciência morfológica e leitura. Em oposição, aqueles que realizaram menos transgressões obtiveram melhor desempenho nessas tarefas. A elaboração de práticas pedagógicas que enfoquem habilidades cognitivas e linguísticas facilitaria a aquisição da língua escrita em braille.

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Braille Literacy Skills: An Analysis of the Concept of Spelling

Abstract: This article analyzes the braille spelling errors of 16 Greek students who are blind. More specifically, it explores the types of spelling errors, the students’ attitudes toward spelling, and the relationship between spelling and reading strategies.

Cited by 25 publications

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Health Literacy Issues Among Women with Visual Impairments

Health Literacy Issues Among Women with Visual Impairments

Auditory discriminations of typographic attributes of documents by students with blindness

Habilidades cognitivo-linguísticas e segmentação lexical em Braille

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