Abstract

BURBANO CARABALI, Víctor Manuel  and  MASSANI ENRIQUEZ, Jorge Félix. Personal autonomy in students with visual disabilities from the family counseling process. Rev. Mendive [online]. 2023, vol.21, n.4  Epub Dec 30, 2023. ISSN 1815-7696.

Given the birth of a child with a visual disability or who acquires this condition in the course of his life, guidance and support for families has a special connotation. The objective of this article is aimed at proposing a family guidance system for the development of personal autonomy in students with visual disabilities in Basic Secondary Education in Colombia. In the methodology used, theoretical and empirical methods such as logical history, synthetic analytics, systemic approach and modeling were combined, a questionnaire was applied to families of students with visual disabilities, interviews with students, teachers from official educational institutions and methodological triangulation to determine requirements derived from the different methods used. The family guidance system is made up of three subsystems called basic, enrichment and consolidation that ensure a logical and harmonious relationship by establishing its development based on the results obtained in the initial diagnosis and where the demands of society and the Colombian educational system are taken into account. As results, it was obtained that the system is pertinent from its application in the selected sample and contributed to the orientation of families in the development of personal autonomy in their relative with Visual Disability.

Keywords : personal autonomy; visual impairment; family counseling.

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