ADDRESSING WAY-FINDING TECHNIQUES FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON S IN THE DESIGN OF EYE-CENTRE, JALINGO

📄 Project Abstract

Hospital is a complex structure that involves multi-functional activities which create way-finding challenges for patients and visitors in the environment, most especially the visually impaired person who normally have difficulties in finding their way around the normal day to day society. The visually impairednaturally encounter serious challenges in every hospital facility they find themself. The aim of this study is to address way-finding techniques for the visually impaired persons in the design of an eye-centre. There arevarious methods of conducting research in the field of behavioural science, and several others. All these are accepted provided that the research follows a logical arrival to portray logical data collections.Analysis of the collected result and presentations of result concludesthe methodology employed for this study and the assessment of the selected eye centre and schools which admit the visually impaired. Purposive sample techniques were used for the selection o...