SPkK01 Communication for Individuals with Visual and Hearing Impairments

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/0/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Radka Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Lenka Hricová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Lenka Vrbecká Doležalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Radka Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Mgr. Ilona Fialová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The students will teoretically learn the problematic of persons with dual sensory impairment, especially with an emphasis on the possibilities of communication of these persons. They will learn basics of some communicative forms and some of them they will try to use. The students will be able to propose the procedures in the education of children and pupils with deafblindness and they will be able to imagine the development of their communication competences through the different communication forms. The students will learn the theory and practice of the communication competences development by the persons with acquired and inborn deafblindness. The will use the skills acquired until this time and will learn to combinate various approaches according to the grade of sight and hearing by the children with deafblindness. They will be able to create the concrete groundwork for the realisation of the communication skills development on the grounds of concrete case report and they will be able to discuse about it.
Learning outcomes
- Students will focus on the issue of care for people with dual sensory impairment, especially with an emphasis on the possibilities of communication of these persons. - Students will learn practical basics of some forms of communication and others will try. - Students will be able to design procedures for the education of children and pupils with deafblindness and will be able to choose appropriate strategies for developing the communication skills of deafblind people.
Syllabus
  • Definition of deafblindness. Classification and etiology of deafblindness. The consequences of deafblindness. System of comprehensive care for a person with deafblindness. Educational options for children and pupils with deafblindness. Communication systems for people with deafblindness. Development of communication skills in children with congenital deafblindness. Deafblindness in adulthood.
Literature
    required literature
  • LANGER, Jiří, Eva SOURALOVÁ and Radka HORÁKOVÁ. Taktilní znakový jazyk. Manuál k výuce a studiu (Tactile sign language. Guide to teaching and learning). první. Praha: o. s. Lorm - Společnost pro hluchoslepé, 2010, 33 pp. ISBN 978-80-254-8457-9. info
  • HORÁKOVÁ, Radka and Eva SOURALOVÁ. Problematika osob s hluchoslepotou a kontaktní tlumočení u hluchoslepých preferujících český znakový jazyk (Interpreting services of tactiling sign language for deafblind). Praha: Česká komora tlumočníků znakového jazyka, 2008, 69 pp. 1. vydání. ISBN 978-80-87153-34-5. info
  • ŠTĚRBOVÁ, Dana. Hluchoslepota : lidé s ní a kolem ní. 2. vydání. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2006, 103 stran. ISBN 8024414333. info
    not specified
  • HRICOVÁ, Lenka and Lenka DOLEŽALOVÁ. Hluchoslepota (Deafblindness). In Bartoňová, M., Bytešníková, I., Vítková, M. et al. Děti se speciálními vzdělávacími potřebami v mateřské škole. Texty k distančnímu vzdělávání. Brno: Paido, 2012, p. 157-173. ISBN 978-80-7315-237-6. info
  • ŠTĚRBOVÁ, Dana. Hluchoslepota : lidé s ní a kolem ní. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2005, 103 s. ISBN 8024412446. info
  • SOURALOVÁ, Eva. Vzdělávání hluchoslepých. 1. vyd. Praha: Scientia, 2000, 78 s. ISBN 807183226X. info
Teaching methods
teoreticaly preparing, discussions, autonomous working, discussion, demonstration of communication systems for people with deafblindness
Assessment methods
Written test (to successfully cope it is necessary to anwer 75% questions correct), case study.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023.
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