Abstract

AMIRALIAN, Maria Lúcia Toledo Moraes. Am I blind or seeing? The questions of low vision. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2004, n.23, pp.15-28. ISSN 0104-4060.

This text intends to discuss the emotional disturbs of people with low vision. In the seventies, specialists started to study the effective use of residual vision. But studies about this issue were centralized in the medical, pedagogical and technological areas. Researches in the psychological area are, mostly, still centralized in the psychological effects of blindness. They share the opinion that the discoveries about blind people can be applied to low vision people, but studies with those people have shown peculiar problems to this group. Two basic problems were observed and analyzed: the identity issues and the appurtenance issues. Topics were proposed for future researches.

Keywords : Visual Impairment; Low Vision; Personal Identity; Appurtenance.

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