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Determining Learning Disabilities in Students with Low Vision.
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Layton, Carol A.; Lock, Robin H. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2001
This article discusses issues in the identification of learning disabilities in students with low vision and examines the academic performance of one 8-year-old student and the methods that his multidisciplinary team used to document a dual diagnosis of low vision and learning disabilities. (Contains references.) (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disability Identification, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities
The Learning Disabled Preschool Child.
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Kirk, Samuel A. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
Two case studies involving preschool children with developmental learning disabilities (one with nystagmus and one with a hearing impairment) point to the need for appropriate ability as well as disability identification and assessment procedures (both had been diagnosed as mentally retarded) the potential of early diagnosis and intervention for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Hearing Impairments
Neuropsychological, Learning and Developmental Characteristics of the Sighted, Visually Impaired Child.
Daugherty, Kathryn M.; Moran, Michael F. – 1980
Fifty partially sighted children (7 to 18 years old) were studied along 143 variables to provide a comprehensive profile in the areas of cognitive, psychomotor, academic, and neuropsychological development. The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery was the principal data collection instrument, supplemented by the Stephen's Piagetian Battery…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Teaching Visual Attention in Functional Contexts: Acquisition and Generalization of Complex Visual Motor Skills.
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Goetz, L.; Gee, K. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1987
A 3-year-old (severely retarded and visually impaired) was trained in a program emphasizing functional, age-appropriate visual motor tasks requiring use of vision for successful task completion. Use of a repeated prompting procedure was successful in establishing visual attention, and generalization of visual attention to untrained tasks was…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Case Studies, Generalization, Motor Development
Developmental Visual Dysfunction: Models for Assessment and Management.
Erhardt, Rhoda Priest – 1990
This book describes transdisciplinary management of multiply disabled children with vision problems and presents four theoretical models of visual assessment and three illustrative case studies in a sequence appropriate to the learning process. The first three models are intended to lead to assessment and management of the child and the last to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
A Developmental Visual Assessment for Children with Multiple Handicaps.
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Erhardt, Rhoda P. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1988
A set of developmental norm data for reflexive and voluntary visual-motor development was compiled, revised after extensive clinical use, and found to have highly significant interrater agreement. Use of the resultant Erhardt Developmental Visual Assessment is illustrated with a multiply handicapped three-year-old. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests