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National Center on Deaf-Blindness, 2022
This brief, co-produced by the National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) and Accessible Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Systems (ATLAS), provides important information about students with dual sensory loss who also have significant cognitive disabilities, as well as recommendations for identification and implications for instruction. The…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Severe Disabilities, Deaf Blind, Students with Disabilities
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Campaña, Laura V.; Ouimet, Donald A. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2015
Since its creation in the early 1980s, Light Box, a product developed by the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) that is designed for working on functional vision tasks with children who have visual impairments or multiple disabilities, has been an effective tool to help teach children with visual impairments to locate and track items…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Assistive Technology, Handheld Devices
M. Karvonen; B. Beitling; K. Erickson; S. Morgan; R. Bull – National Center on Deaf-Blindness, 2021
This report describes a project that uses existing data sets to describe the population of students with significant cognitive disabilities and known or suspected dual sensory loss. It includes students with suspected dual sensory loss because students with significant cognitive disabilities are reported to have unidentified sensory loss (Erickson…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Comorbidity, Perceptual Impairments, Student Characteristics
Copeland, Susan R., Ed.; Keefe, Elizabeth B., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2018
What are today's best methods for teaching literacy skills to students with complex support needs--including autism, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities? This comprehensive guidebook has up-to-date, evidence-based answers for pre- and in-service educators. Developed by Copeland and Keefe, the experts behind the landmark book…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Disabilities, Autism, Intellectual Disability
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Horn, Eva; Kang, Jean – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2012
Young children with multiple disabilities have unique needs and challenges. Many of these young children struggle to communicate their wants and needs, to freely move their body to access and engage their world, and to learn abstract concepts and ideas. Professionals and families working together must identify the individual supports each child…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Young Children, Early Intervention, Student Needs
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Lancioni, Giulio E.; O'Reilly, Mark F.; Singh, Nirbhay N.; Sigafoos, Jeff; Oliva, Doretta; Severini, Laura – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study assessed the combination of two microswitches with a voice output communication aid (VOCA) with two persons (an adolescent and a young adult) with multiple disabilities. The microswitches allowed the participants to obtain direct access to preferred environmental stimuli; the VOCA enabled them to ask for caregiver's attention.…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Multiple Disabilities, Young Adults, Augmentative and Alternative Communication