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Although collaboration is a well-known and encouraged practice in teachers’ work to support children with special needs, it is often conceptualized in either a vague or an overly idealized manner. Additionally, there is a dearth of research on how teachers work together and how this collaboration affects critical outcomes related to their working lives. In […]
…This study investigated the relationship between families’ perceptions of supports and services and family quality of life (FQOL) for families of children with deafblindness, and the potential of satisfaction with family-professional partnerships and child age as moderators of this relationship. The study was guided by the Unified Theory of Family Quality of Life. Two-hundred and […]
…Identification of, and responsiveness to, the communicative attempts of children with developmental delays’ is essential to developing intentional, symbolic communication. The current study was a replication of Keen, Sigafoos, and Woodyatt’s 2005 study titled Teacher Responses to the Communicative Attempts of Children With Autism, with modifications to the participants used in the study. The Inventory […]
…In motion control applications where the desired trajectory velocity exceeds an actuator’s maximum velocity limitations, large position errors will occur between the desired and actual trajectory responses. In these situations standard control approaches cannot predict the output saturation of the actuator and thus the associated error summation cannot be minimised. An adaptive feedforward control solution […]
…Computer networks and especially the Internet have significantly influenced the diffusion of online games through remote opponents. However, the usual interfaces for board games are based on the visual channel. For example, they require players to check their moves on a video display and to interact using pointing devices, e.g., a mouse. Hence, they are […]
…The vestibular functions and gross motor developments were assessed in 4 children with congenitally severe deaf and severe blind. In all cases, the gross motor development was found to be delayed more further than that in the cases with congenital hearing impairment alone. Careful treatment and planning for rehabilitation with cochlear implant are needed in […]
…This monograph has assembled together student and parent biblioesssays, position papers and reflective commentary from professionals who work with deafblind students. For the students profiled in this monograph, like many deafblind students, access to academic achievement was often met with obstacles due to low expectations, inadequate support services and misgivings concerning the ambiguous characterization of […]
…Esta guía es diseñada especialmente para los abuelos de niños diagnosticados con el autismo. Le ayudará a los abuelos a aprender sobre el autismo y el impacto en la familia así como para descubrir las maneras para apoyar a los padres, saber cómo puede desarrollar la mejor relación con su nieto y sentirse apoyado y […]
…The artworks in this series are my accounts of a deaf woman’s experience in a world that constantly pulls her back and forth between two very divergent sides. The images on each panel tell stories about my subjective experiences and in narrating them, I chose images that are easy to recognize and to interpret about […]
…The purpose of this multicase study was to examine the phenomena of perceptions held by adult siblings concerning their own participation in the public school Individual Education Plan, Transition Meeting (ITP) of a brother or sister who is congenitally deafblind. Transition to adulthood for individuals who are congenitally deafblind is complex (Everson, 1995). Due to […]
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