[PDF] Children With Visual Impairments eBook

Author : Joao Roe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134753586

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This book is aimed at the mainstream class teacher who has little or no experience of providing effective learning experiences for children with visual impairments. It is designed both as an introductory guide to assessment and provision. It also has a strong focus on social interactions, since many teachers are confused as how to help children with visual impairments make friends. The book sets out the basis for addressing the individual with a wide range of visual impairments. Chapters cover: the identification and assessment of aspects of vision visual impairment and individual needs practical advice on the development of concepts, language and literacy and social skills the use of low vision aids, appropriate decor and physical layouts, lighting and IT educational policy and the Code of Practice Drawing on very recent research, this book presents new insights into the needs of children with visual impairments as learners, arguing that it is the quality of the child's social interactions which promotes play, language and learning.

Author : Sharon Sacks
Publisher : American Foundation for the Blind
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Blind children
ISBN : 9780891288824

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"This book expands upon the knowledge base and provides a compendium of intervention strategies to support and enhance the acquisition of social skills and children and youths with visual impairments ... Part 1 ... addresses social skills from a first-person perspective. The second part ... examines how theory seeks to explain social development and influences assessment and practice ... Part 3, ties personal perspectives and theory to actual practice. Finally, Part 4 ... offers numerous examples and models for teaching social skills to students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabling conditions."--Introduction.

Author : Gordon Dutton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1898683867

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Clinics in Developmental Medicine No.186 The increased awareness of cerebral visual impairment in children, combined with improved recognition of its wide ranging manifestations, has led to its recognition as the most common cause of visual impairment in children in the developed world. Yet the subject is in its infancy, with very little published to date. Information on this complex topic has been needed by all disciplines working with disabled children for many years. This ambitious book links the work of authors from many of the major research teams in this field, who have made significant contributions to the literature on the subject of cerebral visual impairment and provide a structured amalgam of the viewpoints of different specialists. The book contains some very novel concepts, which will be of great practical value to those who care for children with visual impairment due to brain injury. Summaries of the more specialist chapters as well as clear diagrams and a glossary have been provided to increase the book’s accessibility to a broader readership. This is an exciting and important field, to which this book makes a major contribution.

Author : Deborah Chen
Publisher : American Foundation for the Blind
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780891288190

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Young children who are visually impaired and have additional disabilities need to learn to use their sense of touch effectively to promote their growth, development, and ability to communicate. This manual provides teachers, early interventionists, and parents with critical information about alternative communication methods not based on the use of vision as well as countless practical strategies. Topics include assessing a child's skills, planning interventions, and selecting appropriate tactile strategies to meet the child's needs.

Author : Ellen Trief
Publisher : American Foundation for the Blind
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Children with visual disabilities
ISBN : 089128835X

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Early intervention services are essential for infants and toddlers who are visually impaired and have some functional vision that they will be able to use for everyday activities--not only to ensure their early development but also to help them learn to use their vision with maximum effectiveness, right from the start. Everyday Activities to Promote Visual Efficiency offers guiding principles for early intervention with very young children who are visually impaired and who may also have additional disabilities. This important new resource provides simple activities that can be incorporated easily by families and service providers into the everyday routines of a baby or child to facilitate early visual development and use of functional vision.

Author : Pauline Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135373124

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First Published in 2003. This book provides guidance to teachers, teaching assistants, service staff, parents and other professionals regarding the inclusion of children with visual impairments in mainstream primary schools. Rich and detailed case studies of inclusion in four schools are used to enable the development of an understanding that is grounded in the contexts and circumstances of real schools. Whilst focus is on children with visual impairments, many of the themes running through the book hold resonance in relation to thinking about the inclusion of other children with special educational needs.

Author : Cheryl Kamei-Hannan
Publisher : AFB Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2015-05
Category : Blind children
ISBN : 9780891286349

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Reading Connections: Strategies for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments offers an in-depth and user-friendly guide for understanding reading instruction for teachers and professionals seeking to improve the reading skills of their students who are visually impaired. The book addresses in detail the essential components of reading--phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension--as well as other key reading components and subskills. While this book addresses the needs of students who read print, braille, or both, much of the book is also consistent with strategies for teaching reading to students who have, or are at risk for, developing reading disabilities. Teachers of students with visual impairments, as well as family members and other professionals who work with children who are blind or visually impaired, will find within this book a repertoire of strategies and activities for creating a balanced, comprehensive plan of reading instruction for each student and for teaching the essential reading skills necessary for students' success.

Author : Susan LaVenture
Publisher : American Foundation for the Blind
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0891288929

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This handbook for parents, family members and caregivers of children with visual impairments explains special education services that these children are likely to need and to which they are entitled--and how to ensure that they receive them. Edited and written by experienced parents and professionals, this helpful and easy to use resource addresses the effect of visual impairment on a child's ability to learn and the services and educational programming that are essential for them to get the best education possible. Chapters address early intervention, assessment, different types of services, IEPs, accommodations and adaptations, different types of placements, children with other disabilities in addition to visual impairment, and negotiation and advocacy.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2002-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309083486

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When children and adults apply for disability benefits and claim that a visual impairment has limited their ability to function, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) is required to determine their eligibility. To ensure that these determinations are made fairly and consistently, SSA has developed criteria for eligibility and a process for assessing each claimant against the criteria. Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits examines SSA's methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made now to improve the process and the outcomes, and identifies research needed to develop improved methods for the future. The report assesses tests of visual function, including visual acuity and visual fields whether visual impairments could be measured directly through visual task performance or other means of assessing disability. These other means include job analysis databases, which include information on the importance of vision to job tasks or skills, and measures of health-related quality of life, which take a person-centered approach to assessing visual function testing of infants and children, which differs in important ways from standard adult tests.

Author : M. Cay Holbrook
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Amblyopia
ISBN : 9781890627409

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This thoroughly revised and expanded edition is an essential resource for parents of children who are blind, legally blind, or have low vision. It is filled with jargon-free compassionate information and advice on children from birth through age 7.--Back cover.