PdF:SPDA014 Specialization - wider scienti - Course Information

SPDA014 Specialization - wider scientific basis - Education of Individuals with Visual Impairments

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Pavel Beneš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Petra Röderová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Vrubel, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Marie Vítková, CSc.
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

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

The goal is to increase knowledge in specific areas of psychomotor development of the individual with visual impairments. Explore further methods of reeducation and compensation from the perspective the visual impairment. At the end of the course the student will understand well the problems of education in the field of visual impairment.

Learning outcomes

A successful graduate is able to:
• Adapt deep knowledge of the specifics of interventions with persons with visual impairment
• Adapt special diagnostics skills and supportive methods
• Focus and provide the support from early age to adulthood
• Combine gained information with other disciplines – psychology, education of individuals with physical and hearing impairment, speech therapy and medical fields (ophthalmology, phoniatrics, otorhinolaryngology, neurology)
• Demonstrate the ability of working with academic and expert literature concerning the specialization domain (including Czech and foreign literature, as well as electronic forms)
• Make use of gained information in order to deliver a summary study
• Write and form a case study according to the specialization domain; and be able to make a full use of knowledge from the specialization and pathopsychology

Syllabus

• GENERAL QUESTIONS:
• • Developing the relationship of the visually impaired
• • Paradigma oftalmopedie   under the paradigm of special education
• • Specificity psychomotoric development of individuals with visual impairment from the perspective of developmental stages   Erikson and Piaget
• • Methods of compensation and reeducation of view   oftal.
• • School issues in the field of visual disabilities
• • non-profit sector as one of the pillars   komprehensivní rehabilitation of visually impaired (early care Tyfloservis, TyfloCentrum, SONS, LORM)
• • u Postproduktivní age individuals with visual impairment and their mobilization
• SPECIALIZATION HEADINGS:
• • Early intervention for children   with visual impairment
• • Cooperation with   family child visual impairment
• • binocular vision disorders in preschool children  , reeducation
• • Specific teaching of blind and partially sighted pupils
• • visually impaired and the phenomenon of combined disability
• • Education of individuals deafblind.

Literature

• ROMAN-LANTZY, Christine. Cortical visual impairment : an approach to assessment and intervention. Second edition. New York: AFB Press, American Foundation for the Blind, 2018, v, 260. ISBN 9780891286882. info
• VRUBEL, Martin, Petra RÖDEROVÁ and Pavel BENEŠ. EDUCATION POLICY: INCLISIVE EDUCATION,SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION - Accessibility of Education for Students with Visual Impairment. Journal “EDUCATION“. Tbilisi: Sokhumi State Univerzity, 2018, 9-10, 9-10, p. 14-24. info
• GREELEY, J. C. and Melinda Doyle MCCALL. Teaching life differently : the expanded core curriculum for babies and young children with visual impairment. Watertown: Perkins School for the Blind, 2018, 271 stran. ISBN 9781947954724. info
• VRUBEL, Martin. Barriers for pupils with visual impairment in elementary schools - attitudes of school principals. 2014. info
• VRUBEL, Martin. The educational system of people with visual impairment in the Czech Republic. 2014. info
• VRUBEL, Martin. Visual impairment as a barrier to education in elementary schools - attitudes of school principals. 2014. info
• PARKER, Victoria. I know someone with a visual impairment. Chicago, Illinois: Heinemann Library, 2011, 32 s. ISBN 9781432945787. info
• Visual impairment in children due to damage to the brain. Edited by Gordon Dutton - Martin Bax. London: Mac Keith, 2010, xv, 352 p. ISBN 1898683867. info
• Teaching pupils with visual impairment : a guide to making the school curriculum accessible. Edited by Ruth Salisbury. 1st publ. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008, xi, 159. ISBN 9781843123958. info
• Teaching pupils with visual impairment : a guide to making the school curriculum accessible. Edited by Ruth Salisbury. 1st publ. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008, xi, 159. ISBN 9781843123958. info
• NOVÁKOVÁ, Zita. Visual Impairment. In ŠIMONÍK, Oldřich and Marie VÍTKOVÁ. Pregraduate Teacher Training 2. Essay Selection. 1st ed. Brno: MSD, 2008, p. 123-127. pedagogická literatura. ISBN 978-80-7392-058-6. info
• WHITMAN STEINGOLD, Rita. Taking visual impairment to school. Illustrated by Tom Dineen. Plainview: JayJo Books, 2004, [30] s. ISBN 1891383272. info
• Educating students who have visual impairments with other disabilities. Edited by Sharon Sacks - Rosanne K. Silberman. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 1998, xxiv, 519. ISBN 1557662800. info

Teaching methods

Bookwork, homeworks.

Assessment methods

Additional requirements for testing:
Case study (10 pages), including rehabilitation plan prepared (min. 2 pages).

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.

Teacher's information

http://www.ped.muni.cz/wsedu

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