The impact of rehabilitation programme on reading performance of persons with low vision
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This specialized text deals with the increase of reading performance of adults and elderly adults with low vision in the Czech Republic. The aim of the research is to contribute to the verification of effectiveness of the rehabilitation programme ‘Increasing visual performance in reading’. Evaluation of research data brings findings of verification of effectiveness of the adaptation of external conditions, which was used during the program. Measurable data are compared to the level of impact of the first part of the programme - environmental adaptation and modification of conditions for reading - to improve rehabilitation programme effectiveness. Based on the research results in the category of reading rate, environmental adaptation represented 42.8 % of overall increase in performance. In the category of linearity of reading, the proportion of increase within the observed part was 46.2 % of the overall increase in performance. In the category of reading comprehension, 14.3 % were achieved of the overall improvement. These data make it clear that in the categories of reading rate and linearity of reading, in relation to environmental adaptation, a slightly lower effectiveness was achieved compared to the educational part of the programme. The research results point to the high importance of the adaptation of conditions during the implementation of a rehabilitation programme. Therefore, this area of professional intervention should not be in rehabilitation process underestimated.
Keywords: Adults, low vision, visual rehabilitation, reading performance, adaptation of external conditions, research.
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