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Educational Experiences of Deafblind Students in Everyday School Life: Research Report

open access: yesLubelski Rocznik Pedagogiczny, 2022
Introduction: In the field of social sciences and humanities in Poland, academic research on the problem of deafblindness is undertaken sporadically. Deafblindness is regarded as a difficult subject of scientific research.
Tomasz Kasprzak
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Optimizing Evaluation of Older Adults With Vision and/or Hearing Loss Using the interRAI Community Health Assessment and Deafblind Supplement

open access: yesFrontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2021
Purpose: Service providers must identify and assess older adults who have concurrent vision and hearing loss, or dual sensory impairment (DSI). An assessment tool suitable for this purpose is the interRAI Community Health Assessment (CHA) and its ...
Andrea Urqueta Alfaro   +7 more
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Seamless Wayfinding by a Deafblind Adult on an Urban College Campus: A Case Study on Wayfinding Performance, Information Preferences, and Technology Requirements

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2021
This article reports on an empirical evaluation of the experience, performance, and perception of a deafblind adult participant in an experimental case study on pedestrian travel in an urban environment. The case study assessed the degree of seamlessness
Martin Swobodzinski   +4 more
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Ageing with Deafblindness

open access: yes, 2021
As a complex impairment with many different causes (Bodsworth, Clare, Simblett, & Deafblind, 2011), the term deafblindness has legal, clinical, and functional definitions. Many terms are used to describe the phenomenon, including dual sensory impairment, deafblindness, and combined hearing and vision loss (Wittich, Southall, Sikora, Watanabe, & Gagne ...
Simcock, Peter, Manthorpe, Jill
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Parent perceptions of motor competence in children with charge syndrome

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Adapted Physical Activity, 2021
CHARGE Syndrome (CS) is a low incidence disorder with unique characteristics including deafblindness, growth deficiencies, heart defects, and atresia choanae.
Pamela Beach   +3 more
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Communication in deafblind adults with Usher syndrome: retrospective observational study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
PURPOSE: To characterize the communication and the main mechanisms that facilitate interpersonal relationships of deafblind, especially in relation to communication and locomotion and the impact of these aspects on deafblindness.
Chiari, Brasilia Maria   +2 more
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Participation experiences of people with deafblindness or dual sensory loss: A scoping review of global deafblind literature.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundDeafblindness, also known as dual sensory loss, is a varying combination of visual and hearing impairment in the same individual. Interest in this topic has increased recently due to evidence suggesting an increase in prevalence of this ...
Atul Jaiswal   +4 more
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A qualitative evaluation of the National Expert Team regarding the assessment and diagnosis of deafblindness in Sweden

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2016
Deafblindness is a rare condition with multiple causes. Given its rarity, professionals generally have limited knowledge of this condition and insufficient experience managing it.
Agneta Anderzén-Carlsson
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Applying Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development to understand autonomy development in children and youths with deafblindness: a systematic literature review

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2023
This systematic review revealed how children and youths with congenital deafblindness (CDB) exhibit autonomy characteristics and how caregivers perform autonomy support, which Erikson described as part of the first three stages of psychosocial ...
Marianne Rorije   +4 more
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From Fragmented Practice to Rich Professional Learning: The Collaborative Work of Teachers of Learners With Deafblindness

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2020
In this study, school professionals provided a rich context for understanding how collaboration can lead to learning when educating a child with deafblindness.
Elizabeth S. Hartmann
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