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Rehabilitation has an enormous significance for individuals with visual impairment. This chapter builds on the rehabilitation of individuals with visual impairment. The central theme the author deals with in detail is rehabilitation strategies for improving reading skills. This theme is also the focus of the research, presented in this chapter. Based on the results and outputs of long-time experience and study, the author has created an experimental rehabilitation programme (hereinafter ‘programme’) for adults with low vision aimed at increasing performance in reading. The chapter provides conclusions of empirical research. In the quantitative part were compared the measurable data (reading rate, number of errors and reading comprehension of the read text and the level of influence of selected intervening variables—visual acuity, age, level of reading experience and level of activity). The evaluation of qualitative research data brings findings of methodological and educational character in connection with the use of modern educational strategies and resources. Based on the achieved data, the author proposes areas and means for a modernization of similarly aimed programmes.
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Without the implementation of the programme, this limit was exceeded by only two probands; due to the completion of the ERP, by four probands.
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The overall results relating to the verification of additional questions are given in the table in Fig. 7.65.
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For example, we can think about the work of the physiotherapist (ergo-therapist), who, through educational activities, supports the development of functions of the affected body schema in the area of self-sufficiency and work activities; similar support is provided by the speech therapist during the rehabilitation of functional use of auditory potential after cochlear implantation. In both cases, rehabilitation resources play an important role as the determinants of independence in the area of information deficit, communication, motor skills, mobility and others.
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This realized research project, aimed at the verification of effectiveness of comprehensively conceived rehabilitation programme, was recommended by the Ethics Committee of University Hospital in Hradec Králové.
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Růžičková, K. (2016). Conclusions. In: Reading Rehabilitation for Individuals with Low Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43653-1_8
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