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Using Color and Contrast to Modify the Educational Environment of Visually Impaired Students with Multiple Disabilities

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1993
All visually impaired students need environments that are “least restrictive.” For visually impaired students with multiple disabilities, the use of color and contrast can enhance their learning environment. This article offers functional teaching suggestions for the curricular areas of feeding-food preparation, bathing, grooming, dressing, and ...
M.M. Gellhaus, M.R. Olson
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Teaching Choice Making to Children with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities in Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2008
This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention package that included visual accommodations, daily preference assessments, and naturalistic instructional strategies on the accuracy of choice-making responses for three participants with visual impairments and multiple disabilities.
Christine Clark, Andrea P. McDonnell
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Using aspects of the TEACCH structured teaching approach with students with multiple disabilities and visual impairment

British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2010
This article reflects on how the first author has adapted aspects of the TEACCH structured teaching approach — developed for use with students with autism — in her work with students with multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI) in a special secondary school for students with severe learning difficulties in England.
Kim Taylor, David Preece
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Developing Vocational and Transition Programs for Students who are Visually Impaired with Multiple Disabilities

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2007
The Shanghai School for the Blind's program for blind children with multiple disabilities was established as an educational research project in 1993. At the time, it was the first such program in China. Since 1999, the program has received support from the Hilton/Perkins Program of the Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts, through a ...
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Istimulation: Apple iPad use with Children who are Visually Impaired, Including those with Multiple Disabilities

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2015
Since its creation in the early 1980s, Light Box, a product developed by the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) that is designed for working on functional vision tasks with children who have visual impairments or multiple disabilities, has been an effective tool to help teach children with visual impairments to locate and track items visually (
Laura V. Campaña, Donald A. Ouimet
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Book Review: Essential Elements in Early Intervention: Visual Impairment and Multiple Disabilities

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2014
Essential Elements in Early Intervention: Visual Impairment and Multiple Disabilities, Second Edition. Deborah Chen, Editor. New York: AFB Press, 2014, 643 pp. Paperback, $59.95; e-book, $41.95; by online chapter, $10.95. Speaking as an experienced teacher of students who are visually impaired, program administrator, and early intervention practitioner,
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Effective Collaboration between Physical Therapists and Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments who Are Working with Students with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairments

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2017
For almost 20 years I have worked as a physical therapist assistant in various settings, including long-term care, acute care hospitals, short-term rehabilitation, and the school system. For the last three years, I have also worked as a teacher of students with visual impairments.
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Aided Communication With Individuals Who Have Multiple Disabilities That Include Visual Impairments: A Meta-Analysis

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Purpose: Despite several decades of research focused on improving early symbolic communication for individuals with multiple disabilities, relatively limited focus has been placed on individuals who also have visual impairments.
Naomi Nattress, Cindy Gevarter, Allison Nannemann, Elizabeth Martinez, Cathy Binger   +4 more
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Mobile Training for Peers to Support Students With Multiple Disabilities and Cortical Visual Impairment in Communicating Choices

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Purpose: The current study investigated the impact of a short mobile training implemented in peer pairs to teach the Communicating Choices–CVI (Peers) strategy to support interactions with students with multiple disabilities. Method:
Tara V. McCarty, Janice C. Light
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The use of low vision aids with children who have multiple disabilities and visual impairment in the United Kingdom

Visual Impairment Research, 2002
This article reports the findings of a one-year project designed to investigate the use of low vision aids (LVAs) with children aged 5-16 who have multiple disabilities, including visual impairment (MDVI), in the United Kingdom. Within stage 1 of the study, a national survey of schools and services where children who have MDVI are educated was ...
Mike McLinden, Graeme Douglas, Steve McCall, Chris Arter   +3 more
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