A Study of the Impact of the Rehabilitation Programme

A Study of the Impact of the Rehabilitation Programme Offered by Agencies of the Caribbean Council for the Blind on the Status of Blind and Visually Impaired Women in the Caribbean.

A THESIS : Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Master in Social Work Of the University of the West Indies, Lola Marson  (2003)

 Department of Sociology Psychology and Social Work Faculty of Social Sciences, Mona Campus

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 ABSTRACT

This research is an assessment of the impact of the rehabilitation programme offered by agencies of the Caribbean Council for the Blind on the status of blind and visually impaired women in the region. The sample consisted of 100 blind and visually impaired women from four Caribbean islands, namely, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Trinidad. The method of data collection used was questionnaires, which, consisted of thirty-nine questions incorporating five major variables. The questionnaires were administered by the Rehabilitation Field Officers from the different agencies. The programme’s impact was examined in terms of it’s effect on five different areas of the women’s lives. These were, (a) Levels of autonomy as it relates to home and travel (b) involvement in the home/community (c) organizational involvement (d) educational status and (e) socioeconomic status.

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