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Persons with deafblindness experience difficulties in daily life and they experience service to sometimes barrier. The overall aim of this thesis is therefore to discover, evaluate and explain: 1. mechanisms that might have impact on participation restrictions for people who have visual and hearing impairment i.e. deafblindness and 2. mechanisms that might barrier service to […]
…Earlier studies of persons with deafness (D) and/or deafblindness (DB) have primarily focused on the mobility and communication problems. The purpose of the present study was to develop technology for monitoring aids to improve the ability of persons with D and/or DB to detect, identify, and perceive direction of events that produce sounds in their […]
…Games in general and computer games in particular have now become a mainstream activity for young people in the industrialized nations. Sadly, people’s interaction with computer artifacts and games are mainly still limited to the visual and auditive modalities. This constrains the richness of our interaction with those artifacts, it constrains the possibilities of using […]
…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 […]
…Definitions, history, incidence, etiology, communication, and classroom issues affecting deaf–blind individuals are discussed in this article. In addition, related articles as well as websites, and video clips that provide general information are presented. The history of the field of the deaf–blind category covers European schools and famous people and Americans such as Helen Keller. We […]
…This thesis explores the concept of learning styles as they relate to the education of deafblind children. A literature review concludes that assessment of learning may be more effective than assessment of skills. The practice of assessment in the UK is researched through the use of a survey of teachers of deafblind learners. This survey […]
…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 […]
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