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Bridging the Social Gap Through 'Conscious Caring': A Constructivist Grounded Theory of the Art of Caring for Older Adults With Dual Sensory Impairment.

Journal of Advanced Nursing
AIM The aim of this study was to develop a conceptual understanding of the role of caring for older adults with combined vision and hearing impairment (DSI).
Moira E. Dunsmore, Julie Schneider, Heather Mckenzie, James A. Gillespie   +3 more
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The Association between Dual Sensory Impairment and Hospital Admission in California Medicare Beneficiaries

Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2022
Purpose Despite increasing prevalence of dual sensory impairment (DSI) with increasing age in the United States (US), there is little attention on its disease burden.
Yuen Sum Kylie Wong, V. Tseng, Fei Yu, A. Coleman   +3 more
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A Smart Sticksor for Dual Sensory Impaired

2019
In day to day life, the community is majorly built around people without sensory impairment. This makes it difficult for physically challenged people to communicate and commute normally. The sign language used by the people who are sensory impaired at the same time cannot be under stood by normal people.
L. Mary Angelin Priya, D. Shyam
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What’s in a name: Dual sensory impairment or deafblindness?

British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2013
Communications about deafblindness within the clinical and research literature are littered with several terms that have not yet been well established or defined, such as deafblindness, dual sensory loss, or combined vision and hearing impairment. Depending on the context (e.g.
Walter Wittich, Kenneth Southall, Lindsey Sikora, Donald H Watanabe, Jean-Pierre Gagné   +4 more
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Dual Sensory Impairment and Ways to Enhance Therapy Services

Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, 2022
Dual sensory impairment is a concomitant change to hearing and vision and is increasingly common due to the aging population. Although seemingly separate, these sensory systems enhance each other and when both are impaired, patients experience increased comorbidities and disability as compared with individuals with a single sensory impairment ...
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Perspectives of Parents Whose Children Have Dual Sensory Impairments

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1991
Although educators and other professionals acknowledge the importance of involving parents in their childrens' education, few researchers have investigated parental perceptions of educational and related services. This qualitative study identified four major themes during interviews with 28 families whose children have dual sensory impairments.
Michael F. Giangreco, Chigee J. Cloninger, Patricia H. Mueller, Susan Yuan, Susan Ashworth   +4 more
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The Education of Dual Sensory Impaired Children

2018
This book is about ability, not disability. All children have rights under the 1988 Education Reform Act to a balanced curriculum appropriate to their needs. The book shows some of the ways in which children can demonstrate and develop their individual abilities.
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Associations of visual, hearing, and dual sensory impairment with motoric cognitive risk syndrome: Observational and Mendelian randomization analyses

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Dementia is associated with individual vision impairment (VI) and hearing impairment (HI). However, little is known about their associations with motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), a pre‐dementia stage.
Haixu Liang, Yinhao Liang, Yixuan Zheng, Ya Fang   +3 more
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Multi-Sensory Rooms and Dual Sensory Impairment: Use and Design

2018
The multi-sensoiy room must feel like a relatively new concept to many people in education. Rooms can be used for a host of activities such as relaxation, stimulation, communication, interaction and many other functions, and as such are a potentially valuable resource for a dual sensory impaired child for whom these opportunities do not necessarily ...
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A Coactive Sign System For Children Who Are Dual-Sensory Impaired

American Annals of the Deaf, 1991
The SKI*HI Institute developed a system of coactive signing to help alleviate communication and instructional barriers for children who are dual-sensory impaired (deaf and blind). The system also can be used to help children who are severely multihandicapped learn how to communicate.
S, Watkins, T C, Clark
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