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    Suggestions for Modifying the Home and School Environment: A Handbook for Parents
    Suggestions for Modifying the Home and School Environment: A Handbook for Parents
    Suggestions for Modifying the Home and School Environment: A Handbook for Parents
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    Suggestions for Modifying the Home and School Environment: A Handbook for Parents

    By Dennis Lolli, Flo Peck and Vickie Brennan

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    This handbook has been designed for parents and teachers of children with dual sensory impairments and other physical limitations. It contains practical, affordable and easily implemented suggestions for enhancing a child's learning and mobility by making the environment more visible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9780988171336
    Suggestions for Modifying the Home and School Environment: A Handbook for Parents

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      Suggestions for Modifying the Home and School Environment - Dennis Lolli

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      I. Introduction

      This handbook has been designed for parents and teachers of children with dual sensory impairments and other physical limitations. It contains practical, affordable and easily implemented suggestions for enhancing a child's learning and mobility by making the environment more visible.

      A child's environment—home, school program, and the community—plays an important role in how well the child is able to see and make use of his/her remaining vision. It is frequently assumed by parents, teachers and doctors that if a child does not benefit from glasses, optical devices or medical treatment nothing can be done to enhance a child's use of vision. The physical needs of the child with multiple impairments, as well as the needs of other children in the class, may overwhelm the parent or teacher preventing them from making simple modifications to the home or classroom. A child's use of functional vision can be greatly enhanced through observation of the child and experimentation with the environment, combined with knowledge of the visual disorder and how vision is affected.

      No two children with visual impairments see the world the same way. There are many factors that influence how well a child sees in a particular situation and why one child sees better than another.

      The most obvious factors concern the type of vision loss and how it affects visual acuity and fields, color reception, oculomotor and other visual functions. The child's cognitive ability,

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