Deaf-Blind Infants and Children: A Developmental Guide

Deaf-Blind Infants and Children: A Developmental Guide

Deaf-Blind Infants and Children: A Developmental Guide

Deaf-Blind Infants and Children: A Developmental Guide

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442658899
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 12/15/1993
Series: Heritage
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 284
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

John M. McInnes is the co-author of Deafblind Infants and Children, past chairman of the International Association for the Education of Deafblind Persons, and director of Resource Services for the Blind and Deafblind, Ontario Ministry of Education.


J.A. Treffry is program director of the Deaf-Blind Division at W. Ross Macdonald School, Brantford.

Table of Contents

Preface

  1. 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
  2. Social and Emotional Development
    • The Need for a Reactive Environment
    • Stages of Interaction
    • General Development
    • General Suggestions
    • Specific Suggestions
  3. Communication
    • Types of Communication
    • Mechanical Aids
    • General Suggestions
    • Motor Development
    • Gross Motor Development
    • Fine Motor Development
  4. Perceptual Developmen
    • Tactile Development
    • Visual Perception
    • Auditory Perception
  5. Cognitive-Conceptual Development
    • Cognitive Functioning
    • Assessment of Intelligence
    • Suggested Aproach to Assessment
    • Concept Formation
    • General Suggestions
  6. Orientation and Mobility
    • Development of Individual Approaches
    • General Suggestions
    • Specific Suggestions
    • Formal Orientation and Mobility Training
  7. Life Skills
    • Awareness
    • Learning
    • Application
    • Maintenance and Modification
    • General Suggestions
    • Conclusion
  8. Some Frequently Asked Questions
    • How Should I Discipline My Child?
    • Is My Child Deaf-Blind?
    • Integration, Segregation, or Institutionalization?

Glossary

References

Index

What People are Saying About This

Dr. Roger D. Freeman

'An excellent book... of great practical value to parents and professionals. Its value lies not in the exhaustive repetition of other literature, but in its logical, developmental approach. It makes sense of the predicament a "deaf-blind" or multi-sensory deprived child finds himself in, with distortions in perception that inevitably lead to deviant behaviour that can all too easily be mislabelled as constituting mental retardation, brain damage, or psychiatric disorder. The absolute necessity of modifying and patterning input, rather than relying on incidental learning, is made crystal clear.'

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