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Predicting Orientation and Mobility Proficiency in Mentally Retarded Visually Impaired Children.
Merbler, John B.; Wood, Thomas A. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1984
The relationship between chronological age, social age, motor, sensory and concept skills, and the orientation and mobility skills of 37 mentally retarded visually impaired children was examined. Results revealed a strong relationship between developmental level in the areas of motor, sensory, and concept skills, and mobility proficiency.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Retardation, Motor Development
Reading and Spelling Competence of Dutch Children with Low Vision.
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Gompel, Marjolein; van Bon, Wim H. J.; Schreuder, Robert; Adriaansen, Julia J. M. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2002
This comparison of the reading comprehension, decoding, and spelling skills of 404 children with low vision and a norm sample found children with low vision with no additional disabilities performed less well than the sighted children only on decoding, whereas those with additional disabilities performed less well on all tests. (Contains…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Out of the Classroom: Multiply Handicapped Visually Impaired Children: Instructional Materials Needs
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Leach, Fay – Exceptional Children, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Daily Living Skills, Educational Needs, Exceptional Child Research
Deti s glubokimi narushenijami zrenija (Children with Severe Visual Defects).
Zemstova, M. I., Ed.; And Others – 1969
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a monograph providing a comprehensive clinical, educational, and psychological study of children in special schools for the blind and poorly sighted. It summarizes investigations aimed at planning ways of differentiating teaching procedures for children with severe visual…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Blindness, Cognitive Development, Handicapped Children
Visual Function in the Student with Multiple Handicaps: An Integrative Transdisciplinary Model for Assessment and Intervention.
Erhardt, Rhoda P. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1987
A transdisciplinary therapy model that integrates visual services into the student's total educational program is illustrated by a case report of a 19-year-old male with multiple handicaps. Traditional domain areas (cognition, communication, motor, and self-help) are linked to environmental domains (domestic living, community training,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
AAC Strategies for Young Children with Visual Impairment and Multiple Disabilities.
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Goldware, Marjorie; Silver, Marsha – 1998
This paper discusses issues central to communicative/cognitive development in children with visual impairments who also have other disabilities, and presents a multi-modal model of augmentative alternative communication delivery that includes tangible symbols, language input strategies, voice output communication devices, software programs with…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Cognitive Development
International Symposium on Visually Handicapped Infants and Young Children: Birth to Seven (2nd, Aruba, 1987). "The First Steps." Proceedings = Simpasio Internacional sobre Ninos Visualmente Deficientes de Nacimiento hasta Siete Anos (2nd, Aruba, 1987). "Los Primeros Pasos."
Palmer, Lillian, Ed.; And Others – 1987
This symposium focused on the special needs of visually handicapped infants and young children. Texts of 48 papers are presented, including keynote addresses by W. Aubrey Webson ("The First Steps") and Heather Hewitt ("First Steps--Parenting, Prevention and Programming"). Regional reports are provided for Japan, Bangladesh, the…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Child Rearing, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Development