الاحتياجات الإرشادية للطلاب ذوي الإعاقة البصرية في ظل جائحة كورونا

الملخص EN

This Paper aimed to determine counseling needs of visual impairment students (low vision and blind) in light of the Corona pandemic (COVID-19) in the Arab Republic of Egypt, as well as to identify the differences in the level of counseling needs of visual impairment students that are attributed to the degree of visual impairment (low vision/ blind).

The Author used the descriptive approach and the Paper sample consisted of (147) visual impairment students was selected for the academic year 2020/2021 AD, their ages ranged between (13-18) years.

The Author applied the counseling needs scale of visual impairment students (prepared by the Author) on them, that was prepared in this paper.

The results showed that the total score of counseling needs, the counseling needs for precautionary procedures, the counseling needs for emotional and study difficulties, and the counseling needs for physical and psychological health care among low vision students was high with a mean of (68.04, 22,37, 27.76, 17, 91), and blind students have a mean of (70,42, 25,69, 27,10, 17,62) respectively.

The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences at the level (0.01) between the mean scores needs of low vision and blind students in the total score and the dimension of the precautionary procedures needs, and the differences were in favor of blind students (T = 5.28-2.64), as they were the highest in need of low vision students in the indicative needs for precautionary procedures at the level (0.01).