Conditions of registration for all regulated social care services and categories of registration for children’s homes and voluntary adoption agencies [PDF]
, 2012 "Ofsted’s policy on conditions of registration for children’s homes, residential family centres, adoption support agencies, voluntary adoption agencies and independent fostering agencies, and on categories of registration for voluntary adoption agencies ...
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IJCM_207A: Deaf blindness in India: Prevention and Long-Term Challenges [PDF]
Indian J Community MedBackground: Deaf-blindness is a disability encompassing varying degrees of hearing impairment and low vision together. Congenital deafblindness is when its onset under 2 years age.
Anuradha Shetye
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Sharing Meaning with Machines [PDF]
, 2004 Communication can be described as the act of sharing meaning, so if humans and machines are to communicate, how is this to be achieved between such different creatures?
D’Este, Claire
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Developing physical activity interventions for children with a visual impairment:lessons from the First Steps initiative [PDF]
, 2019 Children with a visual impairment are less active than their sighted peers. Yet they are born with the potential to match their sighted peers’ motor skill competency and levels of physical fitness.
Lord, Rhiannon, Scally, Jennifer
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Cognitive potential of children and adolescents with CHARGE syndrome and deafblindness
Orphanet Journal of Rare DiseasesBackground The present study aimed to test the hypothesis stating that the cognitive potential of individuals with deafblindness is equal to those without a deafblind condition, an assumption that until now has been empirically unsubstantiated within the
Lynn Skei +3 more
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Development of a Case-Mix Funding System for Adults with Combined Vision and Hearing Loss [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Adults with vision and hearing loss, or dual sensory loss (DSL), present with a wide range of needs and abilities. This creates many challenges when attempting to set the most appropriate and equitable funding levels.
Guthrie, Dawn M., Poss, Jeff
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Do Great Apes Use Iconic Gestures?
WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 1, January/February 2026.Iconicity is increasingly recognized as a core property of language, raising the evolutionary question of whether great apes use iconic gestures. This article challenges current theories of ape gesturing, arguing that many ape gestures are homologous to human iconic gestures, indicating a crucial role for iconicity in language evolution.
Marcus Perlman
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A case formulation model for the assessment of psychological problems among deafblind persons
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2012 In order to describe and understand possible problems associated with deafblindness we applied a functional analysis case formulation strategy and Functional Analytic Clinical Case Diagrams (FACCD).
Leena Hassinen +3 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2020 Background: People with deafblindness experience stigmatization, exclusion, and isolation. Due to complex communication challenges, feelings of isolation and exclusion can increase. However, assistive technology can change these negative outcomes.
Vernandi Dyzel +4 more
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O acesso à Internet para pessoas com capacidades limitadas nos municípios espanhóis [PDF]
, 2017 Este artículo analiza el grado de accesibilidad de las web de la administración local española para las personas con capacidades reducidas, en el contexto de la Ley de Transparencia de 2013.
Moreno Sardà, Amparo +2 more
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