مشكلات التفاعل الاجتماعي لدى عينة من المكفوفين في الوطن العربي


Ar

This study aimed to identify social interaction problems for visually impaired people in some Arab countries and the reasons behind each problem from their point of view. The sample of the study consisted of (117) participants who are blind from some Arab countries. The researcher prepared a questionnaire which contains (13) social interaction problems and their reasons which was applied to them electronically. The study showed that blind people suffer from social interaction problems. The reasons were either personal and psychological reasons like negative feelings towards themselves, the society or towards the disability. Or social and cultural reasons like the negative view towards the blind and the societal lack of awareness of the capacities and capabilities of blind people. (Author's abstract)