Perturbações Associadas

Learning objectives
- Identify the SEN of children and young people with dual sensory impairment - Identify the SEN of children and young people with multihandicap - Reflect on the appropriateness of educational responses - Purchase intervention strategies in educational context

Syllabus
1- Deafblindness 1.1- Types of deafblindness 1.2- Features of children with deafblindness 1.3- Specific Intervention 2- Multihandicap 2.1- Multihandicap concept 2.2- Features of children with multihandicap 2.3- Specific Intervention 3- Educational Responses 3.1- Specialized support units for the education of students with multihandicap and congenital deafblindness 4- Visual Disabilities 4.1- Biopsicoeducacional Perspective of visual disabilities 4.2- Functional evaluation of visual function 4.3- Programming, evaluation and intervention in children and youth with visual disabilities

Teaching methodologies (including evalution)

Cases and situations will be presented on video, followed by a debate and reflection, so that students can observe and know the characteristics of children and young people with these problems and the ways to assess and intervene. The evaluation involves the completion of a written individual work (100%).

Essential Bibliography (including ISBN)

Corn, A. (2010). Foundation of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives 2nd edition - AFB press. ISBN 978089128831 Ferreira, M. (2008). Una aproximación sociológica a la discapacidad desde el modelo social: apuntes caracteriológicos. In Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), Nº 214, 141-174. ISSN 02105233 Nunes, C. (2008). Alunos com multideficiência e com surdocegueira congénita. Organização da resposta educativa. Lisboa: Direcção-Geral de Inovação e de Desenvolvimento Curricular. Pizzo, L. & Bruce, S. M. (2010). Language and Play in Students with Multiple Disabilities and Visual Impairments or Deaf-Blindness. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, vol. 104, 5, 287-297. Silva, Â. (2011). O sentir dos sentidos: a surdocegueira em questão. Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências da Educação - Especialização em Educação Especial (não publicada). Disponível em http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11796/738