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Bibliography - VI & Multiple disability

Play & communication

Issues and strategies and MDVI

Video Analysis (Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairment)

Books

Aitken, Stuart ... [et al]
Teaching children who are deafblind: contact, communication and learning
David Fulton, 2000
ISBN 1853466743

Aitken, Stuart & Buultjens, Marianna
Vision for doing: assessing functional vision of learners who are multiply disabled (Sensory Series No 2)
Moray House Publications, 1992
ISBN 0901580392
Result of 4-year study based on research & in-service work from schools, adult training centres etc. For all who work with young VI & multiply disabled people.  Sensory Series No 2.

Aitken, Stuart & Millar, Sally
Listening to children 2004
Sense Scotland & CALL Centre, 2004
ISBN 1898042268
Practical materials for anyone who wants to listen to and find out the views of children who have communication disabilities.  Comprises a book and a CD-ROM.

Aitken, Stuart & Millar, Sally
Listening to children with communication support needs
Sense Scotland & CALL Centre, 2002
ISBN 1898042203
A profile scheme for recording children's communication styles to enable maximum consultation on the education of all children.  Comprises 2 books bound together in a ring binder.  Book 1: Are we listening,
ISBN 1898042187.  Book 2: A rough guide to listening,
ISBN 1898042195.

Bloom, Ylana
Object symbols: a communication option
North Rocks Press, 1990

Clunies-Ross, Louise ... [et al]
Look and touch: play activities and toys for children with visual impairment
RNIB, 1987
Focuses on different play activities, describing how children of different ages & with various eye conditions can be encouraged to develop through play.  Includes info on specialist & non-specialist toys useful for VI children.

Dale, F J
Stimulation guide: a sourcebook of suggestions and activities for multi-sensory impaired children and others with developmental difficulties
Woodhead Faulkner, 1990
ISBN 0859416305
A useful sourcebook of suggestions and activities aimed at increasing the physical and psychological development of multi-sensory impaired children.

Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
Developmental journal for babies and children with visual impairment [Early Support Pilot Programme]
Dept for Education and Skills, 2006
These materials are designed for use by families to record the progress of their visually impaired child.  It includes advice on what to expect, helps identify problems and provides practical ideas on how to progress to the next stage.
http://www.earlysupport.org.uk/

Geniale, Tricia
Management of the child with cerebral palsy and low vision: a neurodevelopmental therapy perspective
North Rocks Press, 1991
A book aimed at the multi-disciplinary team who work with children who have cerebral palsy and visual impairment with techniques for working with these children.

Goodman, Stephen A & Wittenstein, Stuart H
Collaborative assessment: working with students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities
AFB, 2003
ISBN 0891288694

Goold, Louise; Borbilas, Phyllis; Clarke, Annette; Kane, Carol
Addressing the communication needs of the individual with significant impairments: an ideas kit
North Rocks Press, 1993
ISBN 0949050032

Goold, Louise & Hummell, Jill
Supporting the receptive communication of individuals with significant multiple disabilities: selective use of touch to enhance comprehension
North Rocks Press, 1993
ISBN 0949050040

Hyvärinen, Lea & Lindstedt, Eva
Assessment of vision in children
SRF Tal & Punkt, 1981
Review of methodology with particular reference to the early identification of visual impairments and the evaluation of visual function in children with impaired vision and/or multiple handicaps.

Lee, Mary & MacWilliam, Lindi
Learning together: a creative approach to learning for children with multiple disabilities and a visual impairment
RNIB, 2002
ISBN 1858785316
How to create an active learning environment for children with MDVI.  This book explains and illustrates methods that have been developed over many years, with children of all ages, at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh.

Lee, Mary & MacWilliam, Lindi
Movement, gesture and sign: an interactive approach to sign communication for children who are visually impaired with additional disabilities
RNIB, 1995
ISBN 1858780683
Describes an approach to communication developed by staff at Royal Blind School, Edinburgh.  Illustrates how a child can develop skills in movement sessions & gradually acquire a sign system specially adapted for VI children.

McLinden, Mike & McCall, Stephen
Learning through touch: supporting children with visual impairment and additional difficulties
David Fulton, 2002
ISBN 185346841X
Written to assist teachers and other professionals who support children with visual impairment and additional disabilities, this text examines the role of touch in teaching and learning.

Nielsen, Lilli
Are you blind?
SIKON, 1990
ISBN 8750382705
Promotion of the development of children who are especially developmentally threatened.

Nielsen, Lilli
Early learning, step by step in children with vision impairment and multiple disabilities (3rd ed)
SIKON, 2001
ISBN 8775460513
Outlines the "Active Learning" method where environmental intervention can help children with MDVI achieve motor skills etc.

Nielsen, Lilli
Educational approaches for visually impaired children
SIKON, 1992
ISBN 8750395688
Designed for teachers, psychologists, parents, pre-school teachers and others who are involved in caring for visually impaired children.

Nielsen, Lilli
Functional scheme: Levels: 0-48 months
SIKON, 2000
ISBN 8760188933
A tool for assessing the developmental levels of a learner who irrespective of age and/or handicap(s) has developed to a level between birth and 48 months.

Nielsen, Lilli
Space and self: active learning by means of the Little Room (2nd ed)
SIKON, 2003
ISBN 8775462060
Designed for teachers, parents, psychologists and others who in some way are involved in caring for multiply disabled children.

Ockelford, Adam
Objects of reference: promoting early symbolic communication (3rd ed)
RNIB, 2002
ISBN 1858785294
Promoting concept development and communication skills with visually impaired children who have learning difficulties.

Porter, Jill & Wrench, Kay
Supporting learning for pupils with visual impairment and multiple disability: technology and other resources: Improving provision for children with multiple disabilities and visual impairments
RNIB, 1998
ISBN 1858781426
Improving provision for children with multiple disabilities and visual impairments pack

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Guidelines for teachers and parents of visually handicapped children with additional handicaps
RNIB, nd
Guidance for teachers in special schools who are teaching children with multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI)

Royal National Institute for the Blind & VITAL
Approaches to working with children with multiple disabilities and a visual impairment
RNIB / VITAL, 1998
ISBN 1858781469
The pack was put together by a group of professionals from the VITAL curriculum group in response to requests for information about specialist strategies and techniques for working with multi-disabled visually impaired children.  Includes chapters on Communication, Sensory Stimulation, Environmental Clues and a Meaningful Curriculum. 

Sacks, Sharon Z & Silberman, Rosanne K
Educating students who have visual impairments with other disabilities
Paul H Brookes, 1998
ISBN 1557662800
A hands-on resource, this book provides invaluable information for professionals who serve students who have visual impairments with other disabilities and their families from infancy to adulthood.  Practical suggestions for students with deafblindness, learning, orthopaedic or neurological disabilities and emotional and behaviour problems.

Smith, Audrey J & Cote, Karen Shane
Look at me: a resource manual for the development of residual vision in children with multiple disabilities
Pennsylvania College of Optometry, 1982
Aimed for use with children who have a visual impairment or who are multiply disabled and visually impaired.  The program describes visual stimulation techniques by use of case studies.

Southwell, Catherine
Assessing functional vision: children with complex needs
RNIB, 2003
ISBN 1858785987

Wainer, Hilary; Stormont, Bobbie; Marks, Christine
TAC PAC: communication through touch
TAC PAC, nd
"Tactile approach to communication" Set of audio CDs, Activity cards and manual.
http://www.tacpac.co.uk/

Wyman, Rosalind
Making sense together: practical approaches to supporting children who have multisensory impairments
Souvenir Press, 2000
ISBN 0285635107
Update and partial rewrite of "Multiply handicapped children"

Videos

Lee, Mary & MacWilliam, Lindi
Movement, gesture and sign: an interactive approach to sign communication for children who are visually impaired with additional disabilities
Moray House Institute of Education, 1996
Describes an approach to communication developed by staff at Royal Blind School, Edinburgh.  Illustrates how a child can develop skills in movement sessions & gradually acquire a sign system specially adapted for VI children.

Marchant, Ruth & Gordon, Ro
Two-way street: communicating with disabled children and young people: handbook and video guide
NSPCC/ Joseph Rowntree/ Triangle, 2001
ISBN 1842280244
Training video aimed at professionals who encounter children with communication difficulties.

Nielsen, Lilli
Perceptualizing aids: why, how and when? Options for therapy for children with multiple disabilities, with or without visual impairment
SIKON, 2000
Accompanied by a booklet

Assessment Materials

Nielsen, Lilli
FIELA curriculum: 730 learning environments = The flexible individual enriched level appropriate curriculum
SIKON, 1998
ISBN 8760175338
Comprises a book, a catalogue and a velcro board, made to ensure that the child with one or several disabilities can access an individual learning programme which will match his developmental level, his needs for learning and his interests.

Articles

Evans, Jane
Developing the use of touch
Focus Sept 1995, No 16, p1-5
Encouraging development of tactile sessions and use of objects of reference, particularly with people who are tactile defensive.

Longhorn, Flo
Making a mark on the world
Eye Contact Spring 2005, No 41, p8-10
Encouraging meaningful mark-making with students who have multiple disabilities.

Miles, Barbara
Talking the language of the hands
Eye Contact Spring 2005, No 41, p26-27
Looks at how visually impaired children use their hands to communicate and gather information.

Panter, Anna
Let the fun begin: communicating through touch the TACPAC way
Eye Contact
Summer 2004
No 39, p31-34
A programme of music and tactile experiences for children with profound and multiple disabilities as a means of promoting body awareness and improving communication.

Robinson, Maureen
Using video in multi-agency assessment
Eye Contact Spring 2005, No 41, p15-16
A multidisciplinary team use video assessment to ensure appropriate support for very young children with visual impairments.

Southwell, Catherine
"But what can they really see?"
Eye Contact Summer 1998, No 21, p17-20
Functional vision assessments for children with multiple disabilities and their impact on learning

Southwell, Catherine
See for yourself: observing the visual skills of young children and those with communication difficulties
Insight Jan/Feb 2007, No 7, p11-14
Explores the challenge of assessing the functional vision of children who have communication dificulties.

Stanton, Marion
Differentiating the curriculum for children with complex needs
Eye Contact Summer 2005, No 42, p33-35
Methods for including children with complex needs in the curriculum.

Play & Communication

Books

Bennett, Neville; Wood, Liz; Rogers, Sue
Teaching through play: teachers' thinking and classroom practice
Open University Press, 1997
ISBN: 0335197329

Clunies-Ross, Louise ... [et al]
Look and touch: play activities and toys for children with visual impairment
RNIB, 1987

CNEFEI
Communication and congenital deafblindness: the development of communication: what is new? = Communication et surdi-cécité congénitale: le développement de la communication: quoi de neuf? Actes
Editions du Centre national de Suresnes, 1997
ISBN: 2912489008

Coleman, Mike
Play it right: creating and adapting toys and games for children who are visually impaired and have additional disabilities
RNIB, 2001
ISBN: 1858783941

Haughton, Liz & Mackevicius, Sandie
Little steps to learning: play in the home for children who are blind or vision impaired
RVIB, 2004
ISBN: 0949390615

Lear, Roma
Play helps: toys and activities for children with special needs
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996
ISBN: 0750625228

Lee, Mary & MacWilliam, Lindi
Learning together: a creative approach to learning for children with multiple disabilities and a visual impairment
RNIB, 2002
ISBN: 1858785316

Loumiet, Robin & Levack, Nancy
Independent living: a curriculum with adaptations for students with visual impairments: Volume III:  Play and leisure (2nd ed)
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 1993
ISBN: 1880366037

McMahon, Linnet
Handbook of play therapy
Routledge, 1992
ISBN: 0415059860

Moyles, Janet R
Excellence of play
Open University Press, 1994
ISBN: 0335190685

Newman, Sarah
Small steps forward: Using games and activities to help your pre-school child with special needs
Jessica Kingsley, 1999
ISBN: 1853026433

Newman, Sarah
Stepping out: using games and activities to help your child with special needs
Jessica Kingsley, 2004
ISBN: 1843101106

Nielsen, Lilli
Are you blind?
SIKON, 1990
ISBN: 8750382705

Nielsen, Lilli
Early learning, step by step in children with vision impairment and multiple disabilities (3rd ed)
SIKON, 2001
ISBN: 8775460513

Nielsen, Lilli
Educational approaches for visually impaired children
SIKON, 1992
ISBN: 8750395688

Nielsen, Lilli
Space and self
SIKON, 1992
ISBN: 8750395661

Orr, Robert
My right to play: a child with complex needs
Open University Press, 2003
ISBN: 0335211704

Preisler, Gunilla
Developing communication with blind and with deaf infants
Stockholm University, 1993

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Play it my way: learning through play with your visually impaired child
HMSO, 1995
ISBN: 0117016764

Scope
Play talks: fun ideas to promote communication through play
Scope, 2004
ISBN: 094682892X

Sheridan, Margaret K; Foley, Gilbert M; Radlinkski, Sara H
Using the supportive play model: individualized intervention in early childhood practice
Teachers College Press, 1995
ISBN: 0807734225

Videos

Lee, Mary & MacWilliam, Lindi
Movement, gesture and sign: an interactive approach to sign communication for children who are visually impaired with additional disabilities
Moray House Institute of Education, 1996

Nielsen, Lilli
Lilli plays with Natalie
Moray House ETV, 1991

Nielsen, Lilli
Lilli plays with William
Moray House ETV, 1991

Articles

Focus on Play
Eye Contact
Spring 1998, No 20 (Whole issue)

Brill, Sheila
My learning wall: my dad made it
Information Exchange, March 1998, Vol 2 (52)

Bruce, Tina
Childhood play and adult creativity: could there be a link?
Visability, Summer 2003, No 38, p14-15

Bruce, Tina
Rags to riches? Just pretend ...
Look, Spring 2006, No 43, p13-14

Burrows, Nicola
Play, leisure and age-appropriateness
Focus, July 2001, No 33, p14

Buultjens, Marianna & Ferguson, Roseann
Let’s play together
British Journal of Visual Impairment, 1994, Vol 12 (3)

Dote-Kwan, Jamie
Impact of mothers’ interactions on the development of their young visually impaired children
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Jan-Feb 1995, Vol 89, p46-58

Ferguson, Roseann & Buultjens, Marianna
Play behaviour of young blind children and its relationship to developmental stages
British Journal of Visual Impairment, November 1995, Vol 13 (3)

Finn, D M & Fewell, R R
Use of play assessment to examine the development of communication skills in children who are deafblind
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Jul-Aug 1994, Vol 88, p349-356

Hall, Pam
Learning through play: early cause and effect activities
Eye Contact, Autumn 2003, No 37, p12-14

Janson, U & Merenyi, A
Social play between blind and sighted preschool children
ICEVH Early Childhood Conference, Bangkok , 2-5 August 1992

McLarty, Marion
Play: are we getting it right?
Eye Contact, Summer 1996, No 15, p13-14

Parsons, Sandy
Function of play in low vision children (Part 1): a review of the research and literature
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, March 1986, Vol 80, p627-784

Parsons, Sandy
Function of play in low vision children (Part 2): emerging patterns of behaviour
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, June 1986, Vol 80, p777-784

Ralphs, Wendy
Friendship and play in a mainstream primary school
Visability, Summer 2005, No 44, p21-23

Rettig, Michael
Play of young children with visual impairments: characteristics and interventions
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Sept-Oct 1994, Vol 88, p410-420

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Curriculum close-up: Focus on early years
Curriculum Close-up, 2001, Issue 10

Troster, Heinrich & Brambring, Michael
Play behavior and play materials of blind and sighted infants and preschoolers
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Sept-Oct 1994, Vol 88, p421-432