Physical Activity of Blind Children in Terms of Parenting

DOI

10.2991/icsshpe-18.2019.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

physical activity; blindness; parenting

Abstract

This study departs from the idea that parenting is fundamental to the survival of a child, each parenting style that is carried out by parents will describe the child’s behavior, both physically and mentally. Compared to other children, those who have barriers to vision have additional challenges to being physically active. For this reason, it is very important that physical activity interventions are guided by parents. This study aims to provide an overview of how the physical activity of blind children in terms of parenting parents. The method used in this study is a qualitative method using observation and interviews. Participants used by SLB A Citeureup Cimahi students by using snowball sampling technique. The results of research on the physical activity of children with visual impairments are very concerning, let alone for sports activities, their daily physical activity is not good. The findings of this study that actually blind students from small are not cared for by biological parents, but by parents of guardians.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Akhmad Olih Solihin
AU  - Yudha M. Saputra
AU  - Berliana Berliana
AU  - Zaenal Alimin
PY  - 2019/09
DA  - 2019/09
TI  - Physical Activity of Blind Children in Terms of Parenting
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sport Science, Health, and Physical Education (ICSSHPE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 236
EP  - 238
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshpe-18.2019.67
DO  - 10.2991/icsshpe-18.2019.67
ID  - Solihin2019/09
ER  -