Nutritional Interventions for Children and Adolescents With Visual Impairments

摘要

Obesity rates for persons with disabilities are significantly higher than those of the general population and may be even more so for individuals with visual impairments. One area of concern in particular is the nutritional habits and knowledge of children with visual impairments. The focus of this study was to investigate the effeets of a nutritional program intervention centered on the nutritional knowledge of children and adolescents with visual impairments. Ultimately, there were three main goals: (a) to determine if nutritional knowledge increased, (b) to see the extent to which age affected the participants' acquisition of knowledge, and (c) to find out the extent to which the level of visual impairment affected the participants' acquisition of knowledge. Results of this study suggested the intervention increased the nutritional knowledge of the participants with visual impairments ages 8-17 years and at all levels of visual impairment. These findings may be of interest to APAQ readers as the offer further insight on alternative ways in which nutritional information may be introduced to students with visual impairments.