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Direct linkDowning, June E.; Chen, Deborah – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2003
This article suggests ways to use tactile teaching strategies with students who have severe and multiple disabilities including blindness. Guidelines address tactile modeling, tactile mutual attention, presenting tactile information, providing effective tactile representation, hypersensitivity to touch, and a team approach. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Blindness, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Disabilities, Severe Disabilities
Heath, Pearl – Day Care & Early Education, 1994
Notes that many activities in early childhood classrooms offer opportunities for sensory learning that may be overlooked unless specific attention is directed toward these areas of learning. Suggests that teachers can increase these opportunities by using "feely" boxes or bags, which allow children to touch an object without seeing it. Various…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities, Manipulative Materials
Download full textMiles, Barbara – 1997
This paper examines the importance of hands for the person who is deafblind, reviews hand development, and identifies specific teaching skills that facilitate hand development and expressiveness in persons who are deafblind. It notes that the hands of a deafblind individual serve not only as tools but also as sense organs (to compensate for their…
Descriptors: Children, Deaf Blind, Expressive Language, Sensory Experience
Miles, Barbara – 1998
This paper examines the importance of hands for the person who is deafblind, reviews hand development, and identifies specific teaching skills that facilitate hand development and expressiveness in persons who are deafblind. It notes that the hands of a deafblind individual serve not only as tools but also as sense organs (to compensate for their…
Descriptors: Children, Deaf Blind, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language
Miles, Barbara – 2001
This paper examines the importance of hands for the person who is deafblind, reviews hand development, and identifies specific teaching skills that facilitate hand development and expressiveness in persons who are deafblind. It notes that the hands of a deafblind individual serve not only as tools but also as sense organs (to compensate for their…
Descriptors: Children, Deaf Blind, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedMiletic, G.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1988
An educational program was designed to introduce spatial concepts to 30 congenitally/early-blinded children, aged 8-14, using a modified Optacon of Telesensory Systems, Incorporated. Using the vibrotactile stimulation device, the children learned to identify various objects correctly and to describe their relative spatial arrangements. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Blindness, Concept Formation, Congenital Impairments
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1995
A guide to identifying, placing, and instructing children with severe disabilities, including deaf-blindness, is presented. Identification and placement information focuses on locating and referring children in need of special education services, the role of committees and staff members, the individualized education program, entrance and placement…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Deaf Blind
