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Impact of low vision care on reading performance in children with multiple disabilities and visual impairment [PDF]

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014
Background: Lack of evidence in literature to show low vision care enhances the reading performance in children with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairment (MDVI).
Krishna Kumar Ramani, Shailaja Reddy Police, Namita Jacob   +2 more
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Pre-service Teachers' Views on Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairment

Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Özel Eğitim Dergisi, 2023
Introduction: The study aims to determine whether there are any changes in the perceptions of final year pre-service special education teachers towards students with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairment (MDVI) and their education as a result of ...
Hatice Cansu Bilgiç, Pınar Demiryürek, Pınar Şafak   +2 more
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Visual impairment in children with multiple disabilities in schools for children with special needs in South India

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022
Purpose: To understand/assess ocular and functional vision impairment in children with multiple disabilities with a functional vision assessment battery in addition to standard ophthalmic examinations in an outreach setting.
SahithyaBhaskaran, JeyaseeliFlora, VijayalakshmiPerumalsamy, Deepa Chitra Durairaj   +3 more
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Visual impairments in people with severe and profound multiple disabilities: an inventory of visual functioning [PDF]

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2006
AbstractBackground The prevalence of visual impairments in people with severe and profound multiple disabilities (SPMD) is the subject of considerable debate and is difficult to assess.Methods In a typical Dutch care organization, all clients with SPMD (n = 76) participated in the study and specific instruments adapted to these clients (requiring a ...
van den Broek, E.G.C., Janssen, C.G.C., van Ramshorst, T., Deen, L.   +3 more
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The evaluation of a ten-week programme in Cyprus to integrate children with multiple disabilities and visual impairments into a mainstream primary school

Support for Learning, 2008
A basic need for a child is to belong to a group (). Groups help children: to develop relationships and to foster individual mental health (); and disabled and non‐disabled children, when given assistance, can develop relationships with each other ().
Spyros Soulis
exaly   +4 more sources

Temporal associations between incident physical health problems/sensory impairments and challenging behaviours in people with intellectual disabilities: a population-based longitudinal cohort study of primary care in England [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objectives To determine whether the onset of physical health problems/sensory impairments is associated with incident challenging behaviours.Design A retrospective, population-based cohort study using longitudinal data from primary care records. HRs were
Ewelina Rydzewska, Craig Melville, Richard P Hastings, Michael Fleming, Umesh Chauhan, Elita Smiley, Andrew Jahoda, Anne Macdonald, Caroline Richards, Elliot Millington, Amanda Gillooly, Christine Pacatti   +11 more
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Disability and sexual harassment and coercion in higher education in Ghana: the moderating role of financial support [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Introduction Higher education students with disabilities are susceptible to all forms of violence and have an increased risk of sexual harassment and coercion (SHC).
Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Fred Yao Gbagbo, Gifty Nana Yaa Rockson, Frank Quansah, Pascal Agbadi, Padmore Adusei Amoah   +5 more
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An analysis of visual functioning and cerebral visual impairments in children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities

British Journal of Visual Impairment
The aim of this study was to gain insight into the visual functioning of children with profound intellectuual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). A mixed methods study was performed, determining cross-sectional quantitative ophthalmological/orthoptic data, and qualitative observational data with a standardized research protocol (SRP)
Annette van der Putten, Aly Waninge, Marieke Steendam   +2 more
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Characteristics of interaction between parents and children with visual impairment at preschool age [PDF]

Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2020
Parenting is a dynamic process infuenced by the behavior of both children and parents. Behavior of children with visual impairment is characterized by the absence of language which involves smiling and looking, calming down when focusing on voice ...
Martać Valentina I., Vučinić Vesna J., Anđelković Marija M., Vladisavljević Zorica G.   +3 more
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Calendar systems and communication of deaf-blind children [PDF]

Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2012
The aim of this paper is to explain the calendar systems and their role in teaching deaf-blind children. Deaf-blind persons belong to a group of multiple disabled persons. This disability should not be observed as a simple composite of visual and hearing
Jablan Branka, Stanimirov Ksenija
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