The purposes of this study were to determine the self-concepts of visually handicapped children and to compare these self-concepts with those of sighted children. Fifty-eight students, 29 visually handicapped and 29 sighted, were Ss. The self-concept scale designed by Lipsitt (1958) was utilized. Only 4 significant differences among 22 comparisons appeared in self-concepts of the visually handicapped and sighted Ss.
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