The occupational success of visually handicapped adolescents in the first year after leaving school for the partially seeing.
Data on 355 partially sighted youngsters was obtained during the final year of schooling by clinical assessment and by perusal of appropriate school records. Approximately 12 months after leaving school, a postal questionnaire was used to obtain information on employment record. A response rate of 85.6% was achieved. A measure of occupational success, based on job tenure, was derived for the 169 respondents who had sought employment. Correlational analysis was undertaken between occupational success and 46 visual, biographical, psychological and educational parameters. Small but statistically significant correlations were obtained for the sex of the youngster, academic qualifications, one measure of distance visual acuity and the youngsters' attitudes to visual impairment and to the interaction with the normally sighted.
D000293:Adolescent; D004651:Employment; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014787:Vision Tests; D014792:Visual Acuity