Ante Bilić Prcić

University of Zagreb Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Science

Whether a visually impaired child attends residential or mainstream school will have a great effect on his or her academic achievement, as well as on social skills. Therefore, it is very important to make an appropriate decision when choosing an adequate education setting for the blind child. Braille, as a fundamental communication mean for the bli...

In the art educational process, we have met a blind student. That encouraged us to try to investigate how a blind person experiences a pictorial work of art. The framework of the research covered an examination of experiencing a pictorial work of art (its duration, intensity and individual art expression) for a congenitally blind person by applying...

Previous research has indicated that there is a significant correlation between social skills and problem behaviors. Children with poor social skills usually show some kind of problem behavior. Both poor social skills and problem behaviors negatively influence psychosocial functioning as well as academic achievement. Children with visual impairment...

The number of children with visual impairment attending regular, mainstream elementary schools in Croatia is constantly rising. Their inclusion in regular schools has two main goals. The first goal is to ensure better conditions for higher quality education; the second goal, just as important as the first, is to enable these children to have better...

Today's level of the development of information and communication technologies enables the implementation of assistive technologies that can contribute to improved mobility of the persons with impaired vision (users that move along the traffic network). The user in this research has the role of a pedestrian moving along the traffic network, using i...

Leisure time is important part of life for each person including visually impaired persons. Education, including studying on higher education studies, is integral and important part of young people's life. In this period of life almost everybody faces with new situations, such as independent decision - making and taking responsibility for these dec...

In the process of rehabilitation of visually impaired persons, the training in orientation and movement, along with acquiring Braille literacy, still plays the most important role and is often considered the foundation of the rehabilitation process for the blind. During such training, blind and visually impaired persons acquire a range of knowledge...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder has been defined in the more recent literature as a set of the specific symptoms occurring in some individuals, after they have been exposed directly or as witnesses to a traumatic experience that would be very traumatic for the most persons. Their reaction to such experience was strong fear, feeling of helplessness o...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder has been defined in the more recent literature as a set of the specific symptoms occurring in some individuals, after they have been exposed directly or as witnesses to a traumatic experience that would be very traumatic for the most persons. Their reaction to such experience was strong fear, feeling of helplessness o...

In order to calculate metric characteristics of instruments applied to small samples, a canonical covariance analysis or quasicanonical analysis has been applied. Instrument reliability, described on a small sample of subjects, is defined as quasicanonical reliability in parallel or TAU equivalent forms model. Both an algorithm and a metric charact...

La levomepromacina ayuda a reducir los problemas de sueño en pacientes con trastorno por estrés postraumático - Volume 11 Issue 7 - Branka Aukst-Margetić, Branimir Margetić, Goran Tošić, y Ante Bilić-Prcić

The aim of our study was to establish the connection between pain and depression, as well as pain and anxiety in children with JIA. The study subjects comprised 36 children with JIA, at the age from 8 to 16 years (median age 13, 3 years), 22 female (61, 1%) and 14 male (38, 9%), who all fulfilled the ILAR criteria for JIA. Disease duration was from...

In participating in the Croatia's war of independence, a part of the soldiers remained completely or partially blind (blind or visually impaired). Such individuals needed to be trained for living in the new circumstances. For this purpose, they have undergone a process of rehabilitation in order to master certain skills related to the independent m...