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Teacher Education and Special Education
Teachers with disabilities serve as role models for students who share their disability identity, offering lived experience as a valuable source of knowledge and representation. The misconceptions about the potential contributions a visual disability affords the field of education not only limit employment opportunities for individuals with visual ...
Saurym Quezada, Jenny R Root
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Teachers with disabilities serve as role models for students who share their disability identity, offering lived experience as a valuable source of knowledge and representation. The misconceptions about the potential contributions a visual disability affords the field of education not only limit employment opportunities for individuals with visual ...
Saurym Quezada, Jenny R Root
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Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairment: An Action Research Project
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2014Children with visual and motor disabilities constitute a distinct group with a unique set of educational needs. Such children are often grouped with the broader population of children with multiple disabilities and visual impairments (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) (Erin, 2000; McLinden, 1997).
Vassilios Argyropoulos +1 more
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Persistent visual impairment in multiple sclerosis: prevalence, mechanisms and resulting disability
Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2013Objective: 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 +9 more
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Activity-based intervention for multiple-disabled visually impaired people
British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2009The article describes assessment, planning and training for people with multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI). The ImPAct MDVI project, an EU Comenius programme, addressed concerns expressed by teachers of children and young people with MDVI as to how they are expected to integrate the diverse curriculum elements and particular skills they
Jon Magne Tellevik, Bengt Elmerskog
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A multiple‐attribute decision‐making approach to assess the disability of visually impaired workers
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 1995AbstractThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has redefined employability and disability. The measurement and evaluation of the disabled worker's residual capabilities, in terms of worker strengths and weaknesses, job requirements and work environment, is the first step to comply with the ADA.
Ko, Min-Der, Chen, Jen-Gwo
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Cortical Visual Impairment in Young Children with Multiple Disabilities
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1990Teachers of visually handicapped children are seeing an increased frequency in referrals of young, multiply handicapped children with cortical visual impairment. The use of the residual visual capacity in these children is related to their ability to neurologically process and understand environmental sensory information.
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Language and Play in Students with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairments or Deaf-Blindness
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010This 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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Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2012
AbstractBackground Children with multiple impairments have more complex developmental problems than children with a single impairment.Method We compared children, aged 4 to 11 years, with intellectual disability (ID) and visual impairment to children with single ID, single visual impairment and typical development on ‘Child Behavior Check List/4–18’ (
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AbstractBackground Children with multiple impairments have more complex developmental problems than children with a single impairment.Method We compared children, aged 4 to 11 years, with intellectual disability (ID) and visual impairment to children with single ID, single visual impairment and typical development on ‘Child Behavior Check List/4–18’ (
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The Use of Tangible Cues for Children with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairment
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2007Many children with severe or multiple disabilities, including those with visual impairment, are limited in their ability to communicate. Communication is defined as how a person exchanges information about his or her desires, needs, knowledge, and perceptions with another person (Beukelman & Mirenda, 2005).
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