Working with Pupils with a Dual Sensory Impairment
Books
Bloom, Ylana
Object symbols: a communication option.
North Rocks Press, 1990
Bradley, Helen & Snow, Bob
Making Sense of the world: a guide for carers working
with people who have combined sensory and learning disabilities.
SENSE Scotland, 1994
ISBN: 0951075640
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.
Edwards, Lindsey & Crocker, Susan
Psychological processes in deaf children with complex needs: an evidence-based practical guide
Jessica Kingsley, 2008
ISBN: 9781843104148
Children affected by deafness and additional difficulties, such as autism,
specific learning difficulties and behavioural and emotional problems
are discussed. Written by two clinical psychologists so it has
a medical/clinical bias.
Fortnum, H; Davis, A; Butler, A and Stevens, J
Health service implications for changes in aetiology and referral
patterns of hearing-impaired children in Trent 1985-1993. Report
to Trust Health.
Nottingham/Sheffield: MRC Institute of Hearing Research, 1996.
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.
Interconnections
Teamwork in early intervention for children with complex needs
and their families: Interconnections UK Conference held on
5th March 2002 at City Hospital, Birmingham Interconnections, 2002
In pursuit of "joined-up" services, the conference reports
on practical approaches in the UK for co-ordination between agencies,
collaboration between professionals and the involvement of parents.
Lacey, Penny & Ouvry, Carol
People with profound and multiple learning difficulties: a
collaborative approach to meeting complex needs
David Fulton, 1998
ISBN: 1853464880
A practically-based text book for practitioners working with children
and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Each chapter
explores different aspects of the lives of people with PMLD.
Marschark, Marc
Raising and educating a deaf child.
Oxford University Press, 1997
ISBN: 0195094670.
This book has a section on 'Intelligence, achievement and creativity'
[pp151-165] and chapter on 'Mental health in deaf children and adults'
[pp177-181].
Marschark Marc & Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth
Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language and education.
Oxford University Press, 2003
ISBN: 0195149971
A wide-ranging work with contributions from experts in various specialisms.
Section VII Cognitive correlates and consequences of deafness.
Miner, Ilene & Cioffi, Joe
Usher syndrome in the school setting.
Helen Keller National Center, nd.
A guide to children with Usher syndrome where children are typically
born deaf and become progressively visually impaired.
Morris, Jenny
That kind of life? Social exclusion and young disabled
people with high levels of support needs.
Scope, 2001
ISBN: 0946828814
Reports on the direct experiences of 44 young people with high levels
of physical, sensory and/or cognitive impairment. Their powerful messages
have major implications for the current policy agenda and show what needs
to be done to combat social exclusion.
Sense
Further and higher education choices for people with Usher.
Sense, 1999
Stiefel, Dorothy H
"Madness" of Usher's.
Business of Living Publications, 1991
ISBN: 1879518066
Coping with vision and hearing loss.
Wyman, Rosalind
Making sense together: practical approaches to supporting
children who have multisensory impairments.
Souvenir Press, 2000
ISBN: 0285635107
Videos
British Deaf Association (BDA) & SENSE
"Oh really you have Usher?": a British Sign
Language video on Usher syndrome. BDA/SENSE, 1995.
Duration 30 mins.
Chen, Deborah
What can baby hear? auditory tests and interventions
for infants with multiple disabilities.
Paul H Brookes, 1996
ISBN: 1557663106
Duration: 30 minutes. Accompanied by a Viewer's guide
Bailly, D; De Lenclave, M; Lauwerier, L
Hearing impairment and psychopathological disorders in children
and adolescents: review of recent literature.
L'Encephale: Revue de Psychiatrie Clinique, Biologique et Therapeutique 2003,
Vol 29 (4), p329-337
Bozic, Heather
New curriculum (MSI)
Talking Sense Summer 2008 Vol 54 (2), p16-17
A teacher describes a new formalised curriculum for children with multisensory
impairments that has been developed in a Birmingham special school.
Butler, S J
Transition: a new journey begins
Talking Sense Summer 2008 Vol 54 (2), p22-29
Looks at transition issues for people with multisensory impairments. Includes
some personal stories.
Butler, Sarah
Challenging behaviour: wouldn't you?
Talking Sense Spring 2008 Vol 54 (1), p24-33
Practical approaches to challenging behaviour in deafblind people.
Butler, Sarah
Out of sight, out of mind (In focus ... mental health)
Talking Sense Spring 2007 Vol 53 (1), p24-34
Looks at emotional and mental health issues for deafblind people.
Clibbens, J; Powell, G; Atkinson, E
Strategies for achieving joint attention when signing to children
with down's syndrome.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 2002
Vol 37 (3), p309-323
Explores strategies for using sign language with children who have Down's
syndrome.
Edwards, Lindsey C
Children with cochlear implants and complex needs: a review of
outcome research and psychological practice
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Summer
2007, Vol 12 (3), p258-268
Looks at the outcomes for children who have complex needs who have received
a cochlear implant.
Fortnum, H M, Marshall, D H, Bamford, J M and Summerfield, A Q.
Hearing impaired children in the UK: education setting and communication
approach.
Deafness and Education International 2002, Vol 4 (3),
p123-141.
Explores the communication choices and educational settings for children
who are deaf taking into account other variables.
Goetz, Lori & O'Farrell, Nora
Connections: facilitating social supports for students with deaf-blindness
in general education classrooms
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness Nov 1999
Vol 93, p704-715
Describes a three-component package to facilitate social supports for
students who are deafblind in mainstream education.
Guest, Mary
Growing up with hearing and sight loss
Insight Sept/Oct 2007 No 11, p10-11
Tips on how to recognise the signs of Usher Syndrome.
Hadjikakou, Kika
Deaf children with additional disabilities in Cyprus.
International Special Education Conference "Inclusion:
Celebrating Diversity?" Inclusive and Supportive Education
Congress, 1st - 4th August 2005 Glasgow, Scotland
Looks at the diagnosis and services for deaf children who have additional
disabilities in Cyprus. Available at: http://www.isec2005.org.uk/isec/abstracts/papers_h/hadjikakou_k.shtml
Mauk, Gary W and Mauk, Pamela P.
Compounding the challenge: Young deaf children and learning disabilities.
Perspectives in Education and Deafness Nov-Dec 1993,
Vol 12 (2), p12-18.
Describes screening, diagnosis and assessment of deaf children with additional
disabilities and outlines some of the problems faced by these students.
Hodges, Liz
Listening to the child's voice
Talking Sense Summer 2008 Vol 54 (2), p34-35
Describes a process that can help those working with children with very
limited communication to understand their choices and preferences.
Hodges, Liz
Living with changing senses
Insight Sept/Oct 2007 No 11, p12-14
Looks at how individuals react to the progression of Usher syndrome.
Luiselli, Tracy Evans; Luiselli, James K; DeCaluwe, Susan M; Jacobs,
Lisa A
Inclusive education of young children with deaf-blindness: a technical
assistance model
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness May-Jun
1995 Vol 89, p249-256
Discusses a model for providing assistance to inclusive education programmes
for young children who are deafblind.
Mar, Harvey H & Sall, Nancy
Enhancing social opportunities and relationships of children who
are deaf-blind
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness May-Jun
1995 Vol 89, p280-286
A study of intervention programmes to increase the social integration
of three children who are deafblind, aged 7-10.
McCracken, Wendy
Deaf children with disabilities,
in Gregory, Susan ... [et al]
Issues in deaf education
David Fulton, 1998
ISBN 1853465127
McCracken, Wendy; Ravichandran, Aarthy; Laoide-Kemp, Siobhan
Audiological certainty in deaf children with learning disabilities:
an imperative for inter-agency working
Deafness and Education International 2008 Vol 10 (1),
p4-21
Looks at the audiological needs of children who have learning disabilities.
McLarty, Marian
Learning through real experience
Deafblind Education Jan-Jun 1991 No 7, p10-13
The headteacher at Carnbooth School describes approaches to teaching
deafblind students via real experiences.
Morgan, Ann & Vernon, McCay
Guide to the diagnosis of learning disabilities in deaf and hard
of hearing children and adults.
American Annals of the Deaf July 1994, Vol 139 (3),
p358-370.
Suggests guidelines and tests to be used to identify learning disabilities
in deaf children and adults.
Murdoch, Heather
Development of infants who are deaf-blind: a case study
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness Jul-Aug
1994 Vol 88, p357-367
Looks at how deafblind children may achieve developmental 'milestones'
differently from their sighted peers and not simply delayed.
Peltokorpi, Sini & Huttunen, Kerttu
Communication in the early stage of language development in children
with CHARGE syndrome
British Journal of Visual Impairment January 2008
Vol 26 (1), p24-49
Children with CHARGE syndrome are assessed for communication levels and
interventions are discussed.
Peters, Jane
Low incidence, special skills
Talking Sense Summer 2008 Vol 54 (2), p21
Describes a 7-day practice-focused course for staff working with children
with multisensory impairment.
Ridley, Louise
Music therapy approach, evoking spontaneous movement from people
with dual-sensory impairment
Journal of British Music Therapy 1987 Vol 1 (1), p25-27
Use of music and movement to encourage increased activity levels in very
passive deafblind people.
Sall, Nancy & Mar, Harvey H
In the community of a classroom: inclusive education of a student
with deaf-blindness
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness Apr 1999
Vol 93, p197-210
A case-study of an inclusive education programme for a student who is
deafblind.
Van Vuuren, E
The deaf pupil with learning disabilities.
International Congress on Education of the Deaf, Tel
Aviv, Israel 16-20 July 1995. Full text (PDF) available from
ERIC:
Explores to what extent deficiencies in communication skills affect the
screening of deaf students for learning disabilities and describes the
phenomenon of learning disability in students who are deaf.
Venn, John J & Wadler, Frank
Maximizing the independence of deaf-blind teenagers
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness Mar 1990
Vol 84, p103-108
Looks at a programme designed to improve the independence of teenagers
with multiple disabilities and visual impairment or who are deafblind.
Vernon, McCay
Fifty years of research on the intelligence of deaf and hard of
hearing children: a review of literature and discussion of implications.
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Summer
2005, Vol 10 (3), p225-231
Classic paper from the 1960s reprinted to celebrate the journal's tenth
anniversary. This paper was one of the first to challenge the perceived
intellectual inferiority of Deaf people.
Waite, Laura
"I still can't understand" assisting people with learning
disabilities with sight and hearing problems to access information.
Focus January 2006, Issue 43, p9-16
Advice for people working with people who have learning disabilities and who also may be deaf and/or visually impaired to improve their access to diagnosis and information.
Communication - Children with Multiple Disabilities
Books
Aherne, Pam & Thornber, Ann
Communication for all : a cross curricular skill :
involving interactions between "speaker and listener"
David Fulton, 1990
ISBN 1853461687
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 with communication support needs
Sense Scotland & CALL Centre, 2002
ISBN 1898042203
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. A profile scheme for recording children's communication
styles to enable maximum consultation on the education of all children.
Bloom, Ylana
Object symbols: a communication option
North Rocks Press1990
Bozic, Nick & Murdoch, Heather (Eds)
Learning through interaction: technology and children
with multiple disabilities
David Fulton, 1996
ISBN 1853463779
Buultjens, Marianna & McLean, Heather
Cerebral palsy and visual impairment (CPVI) in children: experience
of collaborative practice in Scotland
Scottish Sensory Centre, 2003
ISBN 0954603605
Explores the collaborative working between professionals involved in
the lives of children with cerebral palsy and visual impairments (CPVI). Provides
detailed information on CPVI.
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.
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
Proceedings from the International course held in CNEFEI in Suresnes
on 23-26 June 1996
Corke, Margaret
Approaches to communication through music
David Fulton, 2002
ISBN 1853468436
One of the ways forward when working with those who have little or no
speech, or limited comprehension of language, is to use music. This
is a practical guide that contains lots of ideas and original activities
for the specialist and non-specialist alike.
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.
de Jong, Coen G A & Neugebauer, Hans
Timely intervention: special help for special needs
Edition Bentheim, 1996
ISBN 3925265600
International Conference in Bad Berleburg, Nov 26 - Dec 2 1995.
Erin, Jane N
When you have a visually impaired student with multiple disabilities
in your classroom: a guide for teachers
AFB, 2004
ISBN 0891288732
A guide for teachers to work effectively with students who have visual
impairments and additional disabilities.
Fraiberg, Selma
Insights from the blind
Souvenir Press, 1977
ISBN 0285648497
A psychotherapist's case studies of blind children including those with
autistic traits. Series: Human horizons.
Fullwood, Deborah; Harvey, Laine; White, Glen
Living and learning: a guide for parents and educators
of young visually impaired children who have additional disabilities
RVIB, 1991
ISBN 0949390907
Geniale, Tricia
Management of the child with cerebral palsy and low vision: a
neurodevelopmental therapy perspective
North Rocks Press, 1991
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
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.
McDonald, Mary
Which way? A guide for parents of children with multiple disabilities
RNIB, 2003
ISBN 1858785278
Part of the RNIB's Early years series of publications focusing on the
more complex issues that can arise for children with sight problems who
have other special needs.
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.
Miles, Barbara & Riggio, Marianne
Remarkable conversations: a guide to developing meaningful
communication with children and young adults who are deafblind
Perkins School for the Blind, 1999
ISBN 0965717011
This book addresses the needs of children of all abilities, ranging from
non-linguistic (objects and body movements) to linguistic (sign or written)
forms of communication. Gives practical approaches for creating
communication-rich environments.
Millar, Sally
Personal communication passports: guidelines for good practice
CALL Centre, 2003
ISBN 1898042217
Personal passports are a device for aiding communication with people
who have communication difficulties. This book outlines key principles
of making and using passports and provides some examples taken from real
passports.
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.
Nielsen, Lilli (tr Arthur Robinson)
Comprehending hand
National Board of Social Welfare (SIKON), 1979
ISBN 8750367909
Developing hand functions with children with visual and multiple impairments.
Nind, Melanie & Hewett, Dave
Access to communication: developing the basics of
communication with people with severe learning difficulties through
intensive interaction
David Fulton, 1994
ISBN 1853462837
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 & Pease, Laura
Developing whole school policies to meet the needs of pupils
with multiple disability and visual impairment: 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
Porter, Jill & Pease, Laura
Framework for inspecting school provision for pupils with multiple
disability and visual impairment : 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
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
Rogow, Sally M
Helping the visually impaired child with developmental problems: effective practice in home, school and community
Teachers College Press, 1988
ISBN 0807729035
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Developing communication: using switches and simple
voice output communication aids to promote early communication skills
in children with a visual impairment and additional disabilities
RNIB / VITAL, 2002
8 page supplement to Eye contact covers use of switches etc.
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Guidelines for teachers and parents of visually handicapped
children with additional handicaps
RNIB, n.d.
Guidance for teachers in special schools who are teaching children with
multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI)
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
New directions: towards a better future for multihandicapped
visually impaired children and young people
RNIB, 1990
ISBN 0901797586
This report lays down a set of principles concerning services for children
with MDVI and their families.
Royal National Institute for the Blind & VITAL
Approaches to working with children with multiple disabilities
and a visual impairment
RNIB / VITAL, 1998
ISBN 1858781469
Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind
Babies like me: a guide for parents of babies who
have other disabilities as well as a vision impairment
RVIB, 2002
ISBN 0949390593
Adapted from "Getting it all together" by Margaret Bull
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.
University of Birmingham. School of Education
Developing effective practice in the use of low vision aids
for children with multiple disabilities and a visual impairment : Final
report for the Nuffield Auxilliary fund
University of Birmingham, 2001
ISBN 0704423111
Final report for the Nuffield Auxilliary fund
Warwick University
Sensory impairment with multi-handicap : current philosophies
and new approaches: a European conference, Warwick University, 6-11
Aug 1989 : Programme
International Assocation for the Education of the Deaf-Blind, 1989
Wilson, Allan (ed)
Communicating with pictures and symbols: collected
papers from Augmentative Communication in Practice: Scotland's thirteenth
annual study day
CALL Centre, 2003
ISBN 189804225X
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"
Brown, Ann
Twinkle: a musical stimulation video for young people
with severe disabilities
Soundabout, [2001]
Twinkle's slow pace and deliberate silences between episodes give the
young viewer a chance to absorb the story in separate chunks. Images
and music start and stop together enhancing listening and looking skills.
CACDP Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People
Understanding deafblindness: training video: level
1 deafblind awareness; level 2 deafblind support work
CACDP, 2003
ISBN 1903159482
Duration 30 mins
CNEFEI
Emergence of communication: contact and interaction
patterns: persons with congenital deafblindness
CNEFEI, 1996
Duration 27 min
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
Scottish Sensory Centre
Let me see: the importance of positioning for young
people with visual impairment and cerebral palsy
Moray House Institute of Education, 1998
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.
Stillman, Robert
Callier-Azusa Scale
Callier Center for Communication Disorders, 1977
Assessment of deafblind and multisensory impaired
Stillman, Robert & Battle, Christy
Callier-Azusa Scale (H): Scales for the assessment
of communicative abilities
Callier Center for Communication Disorders, 1985
Burbage, Richard
Shakespeare at secondary school
Eye Contact, Spring 2005, Issue 41, p18-20
Teacher has adapted a number of shakespeare's plays for a class of secondary
age pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties.
Donaldson, Marion
Changing support needs: a few thoughts
Eye Contact, Summer 2005, Issue 42, p15-17
Looks at the transition issues face by a 14 year old girl with cerebral
palsy and a cortical visual impairment.
Fenwick, Maggi
Multisensory sensitive stories
Eye Contact, Summer 2005, Issue 42, p12-14
Multisensory storytelling techniques are used to explain difficult issues
such as growing up, sexuality, bereavement and loss. Sensitive
Stories Project is being developed by PAMIS.
Foster, Mary
Sexuality and relationships: supporting young people with multi-sensory
impairment
Eye Contact, Summer 2005, Issue 42, p5-8
Supporting young people with multi-sensory impairments in learning about
their bodies, emotions, sexuality and relationships with others.
Jones, Angela
Kirsty's story: living with Fraser syndrome
Visability, Spring 2005, No 43, p20-24
About the progress made by a child with a rare condition which means
that she has multiple disabilities in addition to a visual impairment.
Longhorn, Flo
Making a mark on the world
Eye Contact, Spring 2005, Issue 41, p8-10
Encouraging meaningful mark making with students who have multiple disabilities.
MacEwan, Katriona
Radio resource for the classroom
Eye Contact, Spring 2005, Issue 41, p13-15
Using radio storytelling to stimulate children's listening skills.
McCall, Steve
Moon: where are we and where are we going?
Eye Contact, Spring 2005, Issue 41, p10-12
Developments in the form of tactile communication, Moon and the arrival
of "Dotted" Moon.
Miles, Barbara
Talking the language of the hands
Eye Contact, Spring 2005, Issue 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, Issue 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.
Stanton, Marion
Differentiating the curriculum for children with complex needs
Eye Contact, Summer 2005, Issue 42, p33-35
Methods for including children with complex needs in the curriculum.
Waite, Laura
"I still can't understand" assisting people with learning
disabilities with sight and hearing problems to access information
Focus, January 2006, Issue 43, p9-16
Advice for people working with people who have learning disabilities
and who also may be deaf and/or visually impaired to improve their access
to diagnosis and information.
Walter, Richard
Using ICT to develop literacy skills with students who have complex
learning difficulties
Eye Contact, Spring 2005, Issue 41, p5-7
Using technology to access learning for children who have a variety of
disabilities including sensory impairments.