This paper aims to reveal whether there are significant differences between the weight and height growth rate of children with visual impairments and that of children without sensory disorders. The aim of the study is to assess some parameters of growth, physiological markers of the quantitative accumulation process by which the body increases its weight and height. We used the following research methods: bibliographic study, case study, observation, weighing, height measurement and questionnaire. The subjects were selected among pupils with visual impairments, with particular comorbidities, from Special Secondary School for Visually Impaired of Bucharest, being enrolled in the 3 rd grade. Inclusion criteria for the subjects of our study were the presence of vision impairment, and exclusion criteria were related to pupils with visual blindness. The findings and results highlight that the visually impaired are malnourished, which, on the long term, influences height, and on the short term, weight. Due to the dynamic data analysis, it has been found that the height, weight and body mass index of children with visual impairments is below the average child of the same age without sensory disturbances.

Any loss or abnormality in the structure or function of the visual analyser represents a visual impairment. The World Health Organization considers that the term "visual impairment" refers, on the one hand, to a decrease in visual acuity, and on the other hand, to the loss of visual acuity. The research purpose consists in checking the influence of means specific to rhythmic gymnastics on some components of coordination ability (kinaesthetic differentiation, balance and intersegmental coordination) in children with amblyopia. The research methods used in conducting the investigation are the following: bibliographic study method, observation method, experimental method, graphical method and the method of processing, analysis and interpretation of the collected data. The assessment will be performed through tests or trials in order to establish the children's reactivity, their progress/regression/stagnation as a consequence of applying some means specific to rhythmic gymnastics. The study results highlight the progress recorded by the 12 subjects with amblyopia, as an echo to the applied therapy. Conclusions confirm that the means of rhythmic gymnastics influence some components of coordination ability (kinaesthetic differentiation, balance and intersegmental coordination) in children with amblyopia and that this sports discipline finds a well-deserved place in the thematic syllabus of Physical Education as a subject taught in special schools, in lower secondary education.

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sports discipline practiced as both a high-performance sport and a mass sport. However, we also want it to become, in Romania, an adapted sport for people with various impairments, especially sensory ones (visual impairments). The purpose of this research is to develop some components of the coordination ability in visually impaired children through psychomotor actions performed with a series of apparatus (rope, hoop and ball) specific to rhythmic gymnastics. The following scientific research methods were used: documentation, case study, observation, statistical processing of the results and their graphical representation. The research included the following stages: stage 1performing an initial evaluation that consisted of a number of tests; stage 2applying some physical exercises with 3 of the 5 hand apparatus specific to rhythmic gymnastics (rope, hoop and ball); stage 3performing a final evaluation to assess the response of the coordination ability components (evolution/ involution/ stagnation) in the studied subjects; stage 4drawing conclusions. The evaluation of subjects was based on the handeye coordination test and the spatial-temporal orientation test. The findings demonstrate the progression of two components of the coordination ability after the visually impaired students have learned to handle the three apparatus included in the research.