Optimizing classroom environments for visually impaired school children a scoping review protocol.

Autor: Ahmad Najmee NA; Optometry and Vision Sciences Program, Centre for Rehabilitation and Special Needs Study, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Mohammed Z; Optometry and Vision Sciences Program, Centre for Rehabilitation and Special Needs Study, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Rahman MHA; Optometry and Vision Sciences Program, Centre for Rehabilitation and Special Needs Study, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Fadzil NM; Optometry and Vision Sciences Program, Centre for Rehabilitation and Special Needs Study, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Ludin AFM; Biomedical Science Program and Centre for Healthy Aging & Wellness, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Oct 17; Vol. 19 (10), pp. e0308149. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 17 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308149
Abstrakt: Creating a universal and supportive learning environment is essential for the holistic education development of visually impaired school children. However, inadequate infrastructure, limited access to specialized tools, and a shortage of skilled teachers may contribute to lower self-confidence and academic performance. This underscores the necessity for specific guidelines and recommendations to address an optimal classroom setting that is tailored to their visual needs. In this paper, a scoping review protocol is introduced, utilizing the framework proposed by Arksey and O'Malley (2005), to address the following research questions: 1) Is there any established standard classroom setting for visually impaired school children? 2) What recommendations or specific guidelines exist regarding the physical measurement, layout, lighting, contrast, and appropriate position for visually impaired school children? The scoping review explored four electronic databases: PubMed, Scopus Emerald Insight, and Web of Sciences. The outcomes from the scoping review will offer conceptual elucidation, synthesize existing theoretical and empirical understandings, and propose the optimal classroom settings tailored to the visual needs of visually impaired schoolchildren. This paper introduces the a-priori study protocol, which outlines the planned methodology for conducting the scoping review in detail. This protocol has been officially registered with the Open Science Framework (OSF) at the following link: http://osf.io/z2sdt.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Ahmad Najmee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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