A guide to planning and support for individuals who are deafblind

A guide to planning and support for individuals who are deafblind /

In this collection of leading experts in the field address the problems of parents, intervenors, and professionals who work with people who have been dead-blind since birth or from a very early age.

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Other Authors: McInnes, J. M. (John M.) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Deafblind people.
Blindness.
People with disabilities.
Blindness
Visually Impaired Persons
Deafness
Persons With Hearing Impairments
Disabled Persons
blindness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
EDUCATION > Special Education > Physical Disabilities.
People with disabilities
Deafblind people
Doofblindheid.
Hulpverlening.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • 1 Deafblindness: A Unique Disability
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Causes of Deafblindness
  • Problems of Identification
  • Who Should Be Treated as Deafblind?
  • A Defining Question
  • Recognition of Deafblindness as a Single Disability
  • Alternative Labels
  • Errors in Identification
  • Most Significant Disability Error
  • Identification as Intellectually Challenged Error
  • Additional Disabilities Error
  • Premature Infants Identification Question
  • Combining Experts from Other Fields Error
  • Problems Faced by the Individual Who Is DeafblindModelling
  • Developing a Learning Style
  • Incidental Learning
  • Communication
  • Motivation
  • Self-Stimulation
  • Discipline
  • Problems Due to the Low Incidence of Deafblindness
  • No Pool of Community Knowledge
  • Need for Intervention Misunderstood
  • Establishing Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
  • Need for an Appropriate Personal Plan
  • A Canadian Approach
  • Introduction
  • Identification
  • The Individual
  • A Low-Incidence Disability
  • The Family and the Individual
  • A Personal Plan
  • ProfessionalsIntervention
  • Conclusion
  • Summary
  • 2 Developing a Personal Plan
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Why a Personal Plan Is Needed
  • The Personal Plan
  • The Basis of the Plan
  • The Purpose of Writing a Personal Plan
  • Writing a Personal Plan
  • A Basic Concept
  • Plan Content
  • Part One: Personal History
  • Health History
  • Therapeutic History
  • Developmental and Educational History
  • Family History
  • Accumulation and Wording of Material
  • Part Two: The Present Level of Functioning
  • Key Result Areas
  • Part Three: Five-Year GoalsWhat Are Goals?
  • Writing the Five-Year Goals
  • Part Four: Twelve-Month Objectives
  • Writing Behavioural Objectives
  • Part Five: Resources Required for Implementation (Optional)
  • Part Six: Implementation Schedule (Optional)
  • Implementing the Personal Plan
  • The Actions of the Intervenor
  • Creating a Reactive Environment
  • Parental Involvement in Personal Plan Development and Implementation
  • Support for the Primary Caregiver
  • Intervention as Parental Relief
  • Involvement of Family Members
  • A Community Support System
  • Additional Points to ConsiderSummary
  • Answers to the Questions
  • 3 Intervention
  • Introduction
  • Defining Intervention
  • Intervention as an Operational Concept
  • Intervention as a Philosophical Concept
  • Confusion Concerning Intervention
  • The Intervenor
  • The Role of the Intervenor
  • General Intervention
  • Suggestions for Providing General Intervention
  • Approaching a Deafblind Person
  • Further Suggestions
  • Cues and Objects of Reference
  • Facilitating Expressive and Interactive Communication
  • Don't Talk At, Interact With

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