TY - JOUR
TI - Anxiety in people who are blind from birth or early childhood (with particular emphasis on fear of heights)
AU - Zaorska, Marzenna
TI - Anxiety in people who are blind from birth or early childhood (with particular emphasis on fear of heights)
AB - 
	Issues of anxiety, including fear of heights, for blind people are an important issue not only in modern education and rehabilitation of blind and visually impaired people. However, despite mant' years of interest in the topic, the problem of the presence of anxiety of height in people who have been blind since birth or early childhood, its nature, and possible symptoms has not been clearly defined to date. A significant number of people with visual disabilities from birth declare no height anxiety, but there are also people who pay attention to having this type of anxiety. Therefore, the article presents reflections on the fear of height in people blind from birth or early childhood and the results of own research conducted on a group of 10 people (5 women and 5 men) based on the individual case method and interwiew technique.
VL - 2019
IS - Issue 35 (2019)
PY - 2019
SN - 2080-9476
C1 - 2544-0519
SP - 199
EP - 213
DO - 10.4467/25439561.NP.19.040.12283
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/niepelnosprawnosc/article/lek-u-osob-niewidzacych-od-urodzenia-lub-wczesnego-dziecinstwa-ze-szczegolnym-uwzglednieniem-leku-wysokosci
KW - bow
KW - fear of heights
KW - blindness
KW - blind person
KW - fear of heights for blind people