This study was done to see the present condition of literacy media middle school
students with low vision are using and that of literacy media relating to eye diseases,
reading distance and reading time and then, to find out whether the literacy media
presently used need to be transformed. The result of the study is as follows:
Firstly, 86.3% of the students with low vision used regular print as their literacy
media, and so did 68.2% of the students(visual acuity : less than 0.04) and 89.5% of
the students with onset eye diseases.
Secondly, in reading distance for the students with low vision, ‘10cm close to the
eyes’ showed 51.7% and ‘10~20cm close to the eyes’, 32.8%. Also, in the survey
of reading time, 44.8% of the students suggested less than half an hour of the reading
time, therefore revealing it is likely to have a serious impact on their learning
achievement.
Thirdly, in the case of the students with onset eye diseases whose literacy means
is regular print, their literacy media must be changed into braille. 32.8% of all
students held onset eye diseases, 36.8% of whom didn’t know braille. Only 15.8% of
the students knew the braille for instrumental subjects(Korean, English, mathematics
and science)and, assuming their eye diseases are ongoing, about 85% of the students
are far less likely to continue their present learning. Among the 21 students who
don’t know braille, those wishing to learn braille were 9, 55.6% of whom regarded ‘the tiredness of their eyes’ as the highest necessity to learn it.