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Quality of Life  for  University  Students  with  Visual  Impairment Inclusive learning and education  in higher institutions have prompted the need  to study the quality of life for students with visual impairments / disability in universities. Disability according to World Health Organiztion (2017) in Guadualupe, Gonzalez and Media (2018) is a term that covers a  broad category of impairment, activity limitations and participation restrictions. It stressed on health challenges or conditions such as down syndrome, depression, Cerely  palsy, etc  though disabled persons face a whole lots of Challenges, which includes,  limited social supports, inaccessibility to public buildings, transportation,  negative attitudes and how they live in societies especially the visually impaired. The Visually Impaired  according to World Health Organization (2017), is the limitations of actions and  functions of the Visual system such as visually handicapped, long sighted, short sighted, and Astigmatism(blurred vison). The Visually Impaired University  Students who enter the university face a competitive classmates & Skeptical proofs. University experience is a great opportunity for persons with visual impairment to achieve their potential and to improve  their quality of life. The Quality of life for the visual impaired university students is stressed on health, social, education/ academic performance, emotions, mental health, time management etc. It is only when you are alive, that you can talk about quality of life(QOL). The World Health Organization WHO (2017)defines quality of life as an individuals perception of their own position in life in the context of Culture and value systems in which they live, and in relation to their goals, expectation, standards, concerns, education and information. Yet information is a necessary tool enabling any individual to make proper decisions affecting the quality of life. Al- Altiyah(2018) explores the quality of life of undergraduate students with disabliity at Qatar University, the findings showed that students with disabilities reported medium and high levels of quality of life  in all, measured the aspects of previous studies showed that disability of life of students with disability, (Rinmmerman& Crossman,  2004; Roberts, Macmath, martin &Sigalet 2006) and that individuals with disabilities reported low levels of quality of life than individual without disabilty. Alworikat& Darawsheh(2020) studied the quality of life and academic experiences of students with visual impairments, the findings of the study  suggested that students with Visual  Impairment had an  average perception of quality of life in their daily life activities and lower levels of quality of life in academic experiences in the universities. Here, the university students with disabilities shows many challenges to deal with, both academic, architectural psycho-social barriers, Polo- Sanchez& Lopez- Justica(2012). In another study carried out by Guadalupe, Gonzalez and Media(2018). It stressed that the quality of lifes assessment result stated that 63% of the students judged the classroom setting as dissatisfactory, 61% says the lecture accessibility is satisfactory, 66% of the students  with disability considered their quality of life as being dissatisfactory. The university experience is a great opportunity for persons with disability to achieve their potential and to improve their quality of life. Ellen, B.M.E., Mitchel, K. Ruth, M.A. Van Nispem and Ger, H. M. B Van Rens(2021) studied  quality of life and participation of children with Visual impairment comparison with population reference scores, the study found out that the children with visually impairments  is affected especially regarding physical well being  and social support and peers  compared to a reference population. Children were reported significantly worse on physical well being and social support. The findings revealed that the result contributed to the understanding of the impact of visually impaired interventions targeting physical health, social skills and participation are warranted.

Finally, in another study carried out by  Khorriami-N.M,  Sarabandi, A., Akbari, M.R. and Askarizadeh, F.(2016). The researchers carried out the study on Impact of Visually Impairment on equality of life, the study identified and described factors relating to quality of life (QOL) like self care, mobility, emotions, social factor, mobility and leisure in subjects with low vision and blindness in Iran’s  Sistan and Baluchestan province. Two hundred individuals with blindness or low vision were covered by the Zahedan welfare organization at the time of the study. The study revealed that One –hundred and  twenty-0ne individual  were eligible for enrolment in the study. Of these individuals 68%(56.2%) were men and 53% (43.8%)were women. The average age of the men was 26.32(-12.98) and that for women was 21.04(= 7.68) Ninety –six participants (79.3%) were blind and 25 participants(20.7%) had low vision. It also stressed that the results indicate that individuals without steropsis lower on social & leisure domains of quality of life(QOL) than people observed also is significant reduction in scores on the self care and mobility domains of quality of life (QOL)  in individuals with low vision. It is also observed that quality of life(QOL) should be considered by policy makers when planning health care strategies.