VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 4
activity and motor competence in youth with deafblindness and provide solutions
to the deficits found in the literature.
Literature Review
Literature search
The authors searched three databases: PubMed, Google Scholar, and Science
Direct. The keywords in this study included:
1. "Youth" or "Adolescence" or "Child" and
2. "Deafblind*" or "Dual sensory" OR "CHARGE Syndrome" or "Usher
syndrome" or the combination of "low vision", "visual impairment", or
"blind" and "hearing loss" or "Deaf
3. "physical activity" or "motor competence" or "motor skills"
The initial search of all three databases yielded n=579 search results. Using
the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 579 articles were reviewed by two of the
authors. Articles that did not meet the criteria were excluded. Common exclusion
criteria that were not met were including a combination of the three lines of
keywords in the abstract or title, the document was a peer-review study, and the
study population consisted of youth (21 years or below) with visual impairment or
blindness and hearing loss or deafness. Most of the articles were excluded during
the title and abstract screening. After the initial screening of the title and abstract
n= 56 articles remained. The final screening excluded 46 out of the remaining 56
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