A Study on Clothing Practices of Visually Impaired Children
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2011
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MPUAT, Udaipur
Abstract
When a blind child enters a family, be it by birth accident, vision disorder or adoption, parents and the others close to the youngster face the challenge of supplying the information and concept that sighted children naturally acquire by visual observation. If the blind child has other disabilities as well the situation becomes still more complicated. Every multiply disabled blind child is unique so very little can be said in general about the resulting individual challenges. Blind children faces many problems like cannot put on or zip a coat, tie their shoes or button their own clothes. Blind children cannot identify the cloth and cannot identify the colour.
The present study was conducted to find out “Clothing Practices of Visually Impaired Children”. The study was carried out in Udaipur city of Rajasthan. Samples of 30 respondents were purposively selected for the present study for getting the complete and desired information using personal interview method. The collected data was pre-tested on 25 non-sample subjects. The collected data was analyzed for percentage and frequency.
The major finding of the study was as under:
1. The most common casual wear outfit of children was paint, shirt, T-shirt and Bermuda.
2. Most of the respondents preferred blended fabrics.
3. The result show that majority of respondents were found less satisfied with constructional aspects in their clothing the respondents possessed in the wardrobe.
4. Attributes like comfort durability, colour, budget, style etc. affect the buying of apparels.
5. All respondents preferred garments with center front opening due to problem in slipping garments head.
6. Majority of the respondents preferred soft, smooth absorbent &easy to care material in their garments. Normal fitting garment with front opening were preferred by the respondents.
7. The major decision about clothing purchase was taken by respondents family members.
8. Majority of respondents did not feel comfortable in existing clothing and face problem in wearing &removing of both upper and lower garments Faced problem in fitting, & fasteners related and to identify the front &back of the garment.
9. Based on their clothing problem and their preferences the researcher developed suitable guidelines for clothing design selection for visually impaired children.
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A Study on Clothing Practices of Visually Impaired Children
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Chitora and Babel, 2011