Read more
This is a comprehensive reference guide for teachers, parents, and paraprofessionals working or living with children who are both deaf and blind. It provides day-to-day guidance and suggestions about techniques and methods for assessing children with multi-sensory deprivation, and for devising programs to help them cope.
List of contents
Preface
- The Multi-Sensory Deprived Child
- Multi-sensory deprivation
- Rubella
- Some Basic Assumptions
- Organizing a Program
- Where Do I Start?
- Activity-Based Programming in a Reactive Environment
- Creating a Reactive Environment
- General Suggestions
- Social and Emotional Development
- The Need for a Reactive Environment
- Stages of Interaction
- General Development
- General Suggestions
- Specific Suggestions
- Communication
- Types of Communication
- Mechanical Aids
- General Suggestions
- Motor Development
- Gross Motor Development
- Fine Motor Development
- Perceptual Developmen
- Tactile Development
- Visual Perception
- Auditory Perception
- Cognitive-Conceptual Development
- Cognitive Functioning
- Assessment of Intelligence
- Suggested Aproach to Assessment
- Concept Formation
- General Suggestions
- Orientation and Mobility
- Development of Individual Approaches
- General Suggestions
- Specific Suggestions
- Formal Orientation and Mobility Training
- Life Skills
- Awareness
- Learning
- Application
- Maintenance and Modification
- General Suggestions
- Conclusion
- Some Frequently Asked Questions
- How Should I Discipline My Child?
- Is My Child Deaf-Blind?
- Integration, Segregation, or Institutionalization?
Glossary
References
Index
About the author
By John McInnes and J.A. Treffry
Summary
This is a comprehensive reference guide for teachers, parents, and paraprofessionals working or living with children who are both deaf and blind.
