Lecture 4. C) Children with Visual Impairments – Developmental consequences, assessment and treatment
Developmental consequences
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Generally, the more severe the impairment, the greater the developmental consequences
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Motor development
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Vision plays a leading role in an infants first efforts the independently explore the
environment
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Children who are blind have no natural motivation to lift their head and roll
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Slower in crawling and walking
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Delays in motor development result in poor balance
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Cognitive development
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Intelligence levels parallel those of the normal population
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Perceptual development
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Hearing is the only distance sense available
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Build knowledge from olfactory, tactile, kinesthetic and auditory experiences
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Synthetic touch: the tactual exploration of objects small enough to be enclosed by one or
both hands
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Analytic: for large objects, exploration of various parts for identification
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Communication
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Verbal language is critical for personal relationships
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- Spring '11
- Goldberg
- Blindness, 2 years, Visual impairment, poor balance, developmental consequences, Therapy o Attention
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