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Sutrikusios regos paauglių veiklos ir bendradarbiavimo įgūdžių lygmens ypatumai
The Peculiarities of Activity and Collaboration Skills of Visually Impaired Teenagers

Author(s): Rita Raudeliūnaitė
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Keywords: Visually impaired teenagers; activity and collaboration skills; activity organisation; result evaluation; favourable atmosphere creation.

Summary/Abstract: In this article an attempt was made to reveal the peculiarities of activity and collaboration skills of visually impaired teenagers. While trying to reach this goal firstly the content of activity and collaboration skills was defined. The model of activity and collaboration skills of visually impaired teenagers was made. It was validated by statistical analysis. Basing on the created model the inventory was made up to investigate these skills. In order to disclose the peculiarities of activity and collaboration skills of those schoolchildren the key focus was on skills in the area of activity organisation, result evaluation and favourable atmosphere creation. The data of the research of 211 teenagers with visual disorders showed some peculiarities of activity and collaboration skills of those schoolchildren. The peculiarities of the mentioned skills of the studied teenagers depended on the type of school and sex. The data shows that visually impaired teenagers are more successful in the skills of result evaluation than of activity organisation and favourable atmosphere creation. Moreover, girls’ activity organisation and result evaluation skills were better than boys’, and special school teenager activity and collaboration skills were worse than of integrated visually impaired teenagers.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 3 (7)
  • Page Range: 81-87
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Lithuanian