Research Review of Parenting Behavior of Parents of Children with Visual Impairments in China

Kaixin Liang

Abstract: Education of children with visual impairments in China has gain more and more attention from not only Chinese specialists and teachers but also related organization in other countries. As parenting behavior is an important component of children education, which is also one of the concerns that have been working on to the educators of children with visual impairment, this research selected all empirical studies on the subject in all Chinese papers on education of children with visual impairments in China to have a closer look at how education of children with visual impairments has been developed. The result indicates little progress on parenting behavior as well as poor quantity of empirical research papers and insufficient quality of some researches. Conclusion and analyses of parenting behavior from the selected studies are given, and followed with brief advices on future concerns of education and relevant researches of children with visual impairments in China.

Keywords: children education, visual impairments, parenting behavior