EDVI 6207 - Guidelines for Teaching Children With Visual Impairements Who Are Deaf/Blind

This course will focus on meeting the needs and understanding  the P-12 child’s educational needs and personal implication of multiple conditions in addition to vision impairment. This course will strongly target the needs of the child who has Deaf blindness/dual sensory impaired. The needs of the child with Deaf Blindness or the VI Concomitant child will be addressed. The additional concomitant conditions may also include Autism, Traumatic Brain Injury, Intellectual Disability, Orthopedic Impairments, or the Impact of Various Syndromes–Usher’s Syndrome, Charge Syndrome, CMV, etc.

Use of multi-modal communication systems, development and maintenance of alternative literacy skills, and alternative assessments will be addressed along with the implementation of the extended standards as a basis for instructional planning.

Functional life skills assessment and the impact on family/caregivers will be covered. Professional collaboration with interveners, para-professionals, related service professionals, and Braille Specialists involved in providing support to the child will be addressed. Adaptation of assessments to accurately address the child’s skills and knowledge will be a core component of the course.

Credits: 4

Lecture hours: 4
Course/lab fee: $