SPDC014 Specialization - wider scientific basis - Education of Individuals with Visual Impairments

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Beneš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Petra Röderová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Vrubel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Beneš, Ph.D.
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Lenka Gajzlerová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in 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 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 HEADINGS:
  • • 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
    required literature
  • BENEŠ, Pavel. Zraková postižení - behaviorální přístupy při edukaci s pomůckami (Visual impairment - behavioral approaches in education with aida). 1. vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, a.s., 2019, 136 pp. ISBN 978-80-271-2110-6. info
  • VRUBEL, Martin. Facilitátory a bariéry školní a sociální inkluze osob se zrakovým postižením (Facilitators and barriers of school and social inclusion of people with visual impairment). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 186 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8022-5. info
  • PARKER, Victoria. I know someone with a visual impairment. Chicago, Illinois: Heinemann Library, 2011, 32 s. ISBN 9781432945787. 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
  • WHITMAN STEINGOLD, Rita. Taking visual impairment to school. Illustrated by Tom Dineen. Plainview: JayJo Books, 2004, [30] s. ISBN 1891383272. info
  • DYCK, Herman van. Ne tak, ale tak : příručka správného kontaktu s nevidomými a slabozrakými. Translated by Jarmila Malá. 2. vyd. Praha: Tyfloservis SONS, 2000, 30 s. ISBN 809020256X. info
  • ŠVECOVÁ - KVĚTOŇOVÁ, Lea. Oftalmopedie (Oftalmopedy). Brno: Paido, 2000, 70 pp. ISBN 80-85931-84-2. info
  • LUDÍKOVÁ, Libuše. Vzdělávání hluchoslepých. 1. vyd. Praha: Scientia, 2000, 74 s. ISBN 80-7183-225-1. info
    recommended literature
  • Vítková, M. (2001). Možnosti reedukace zraku při kombinovaném postižení. [Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Středisko pro pomoc studentům se specifickými nároky.
  • Jesenský, J. (2009). K základním problémům tvorby map pro zrakově postižené. [Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Středisko pro pomoc studentům se specifickými nároky.
  • Vágnerová, M. (2003). Oftalmopsychologie dětského věku. [Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Středisko pro pomoc studentům se specifickými nároky.
  • 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
  • RŮŽIČKOVÁ, Kamila and Jitka VÍTOVÁ. "Vybrané kapitoly z tyflopedie a surdopedie nejen pro speciální pedagogy". Vydání první. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2014, 146 stran. ISBN 9788074354243. info
  • MATYSKOVÁ, Kateřina. Kompenzační pomůcky pro osoby se zrakovým postižením. 1. vyd. Praha: Okamžik - sdružení pro podporu nejen nevidomých, 2009, 60 s. ISBN 9788086932248. info
  • NOVOHRADSKÁ, Hana. Vybrané kapitoly z oftalmopedie. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Pedagogická fakulta, 2009, 85 s. ISBN 9788073687311. info
  • JESENSKÝ, Ján. Prolegomena systému tyflorehabilitace, metodiky tyflorehabilitačních výcviků a přípravy rehabilitačně-edukačních pracovníků tyflopedického spektra. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Jana Amose Komenského Praha, 2007, 659 s. ISBN 9788086723495. info
  • WIENER, Pavel. Prostorová orientace zrakově postižených. 3., upr. vyd. Praha: [Institut rehabilitace zrakově postižených UK FHS], 2006, 168 s. ISBN 8023967754. info
  • SMÝKAL, Josef. Tyflopedický lexikon jmenný. 2. vyd. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, 2006, 454 s. ISBN 8086413306. info
  • Edukace a rehabilitace zrakově postižených na prahu nového milénia : Sborník příspěvků z vědecké konference s mezinárodní účastí : Hradec Králové, 21.-23.9.2001. Edited by Ján Jesenský. Vyd. 1. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2002, 310 s. ISBN 8070410418. info
  • KEBLOVÁ, Alena. Zrakově postižené dítě. 1. vyd. Praha: Septima, 2001, 67 s. ISBN 8072161911. info
  • JESENSKÝ, Ján. Rehabilitace zrakově postižených a způsoby její realizace. Praha: Aeterna, 1992, 96 s. ISBN 8090095011. 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
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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