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General Mental Alertness in Visually Challenged and Sighted Students

Rekha Rani
Abstract

The present study has been conducted to study the impact of vision on mental alertness. The visually challenged and sighted students were compared on general mental alertness. The two groups (visually challenged & sighted) were compared on quantitative (Q score) and linguistic scores (L score) of mental alertness. Further the impact of gender was also studied on general mental alertness of both the groups. A sample of 117 (45 visually challenged and 72 sighted) students from Aligarh city was selected for the study. The general mental alertness test developed by Kumari & Bano (2013) was administered to the students. The findings of the study reveal that the visually challenged differ significantly on general mental alertness from their sighted counterparts. The two groups differ on quantitative scores while on linguistic scores no significant difference was found. Moreover gender has no significant impact on the mental alertness of both the groups.

Keywords
Visually Challenged; Sighted Students; Special Education
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