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Book Review: Keys to Educational Success: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2017
Keys to Educational Success: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities, by Sharon Z. Sacks and Mary C. Zatta, Editors. New York: AFB Press, 2016,604 pp. Paperback, $64.95; e-book (ePub or Kindle), $45.95; online, $38.95. Keys to Educational Success: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities, edited by
Bernadette M. Kappen
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Some children with multiple disabilities and cerebral visual impairment can engage when enclosed by a ‘tent’: Is this due to Balint syndrome?

British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2014
This article describes and reflects upon the use of diffusely coloured tents to enclose both child and therapist which, in our service, has brought about remarkable transformations in attention, engagement, and understanding for severely impaired children with multiple disabilities and cerebral visual impairment (MDVI).
Suzanne Little, Gordon N Dutton
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Adapted Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) to Teach Tangible Symbol Use to Students With Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairments: A Replication Study

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
Introduction: Learners with multiple disabilities and visual impairments (i.e., blindness or low vision) stand to benefit from accessible augmentative and alternative communication such as tangible symbols, but currently no evidence-based practices exist to guide intervention decisions.
Sarah E. Ivy, Paige Furbush, Meridith J. Karppinen, Susan S. Johnston   +3 more
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Therapeutic Riding for a Student with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairment: A Case Study

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2001
Jennifer Lehrman, David B. Ross
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INVESTIGATING TACTILE EXPLORATORY PROCEDURES OF STUDENTS WITH MULTIPLE DISABILITIES AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT: CURRENT TRENDS IN EDUCATION

ICERI Proceedings, 2017
Vassilios Argyropoulos, Maria Papazafiri
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Children with Multiple Disabilities and a Visual Impairment

2013
Heather Mason, S. McCall
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Persistent visual impairment in multiple sclerosis: prevalence, mechanisms and resulting disability

Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2013
Objective: The objective of this article is to evaluate in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients the prevalence of persistent complaints of visual disturbances and the mechanisms and resulting functional disability of persistent visual complaints (PVCs). Methods: Firstly, the prevalence of PVCs was calculated in 303 MS patients.
Laurence, Jasse, Sandra, Vukusic, Françoise, Durand-Dubief, Cristina, Vartin, Carolina, Piras, Martine, Bernard, Denis, Pélisson, Christian, Confavreux, Alain, Vighetto, Caroline, Tilikete   +9 more
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Language and Play in Students with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairments or Deaf-Blindness

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
This article investigates the relationships between play and language development in students with multiple disabilities and visual impairments or deaf-blindness. The findings indicate that students with higher levels of communication demonstrate more advanced play skills and that the use of play-based assessment and exposure to symbolic play are ...
Lianna Pizzo, Susan M. Bruce
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Teaching Requesting Skills to Children with Visual Impairment and Intellectual Disability by Using Picture Exchange Communication System Combined with Tangible Symbols

International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) has been widely used to teach functional requesting and commenting skills to children with autism spectrum disorder.
Yuexin Zhang, Jinju Zhang, Jie Zhang, Margaret Sutherland, Siqi Huang   +4 more
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A smartphone-based program for promoting functional object manipulation responses and positive mood in people with intellectual and multiple disabilities

Technology and Disability, 2022
BACKGROUND: People with severe/profound intellectual and multiple disabilities often need support for their occupational engagement. OBJECTIVE: This study assessed a smartphone-based intervention program to strengthen a functional object manipulation ...
G. Lancioni, Nirbhay N. Singh, M. O’Reilly, J. Sigafoos, Gloria Alberti, Valeria Chiariello, F. Campodonico, L. Desideri   +7 more
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