Deaf-Blindness
Hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness
What is deaf-blindness?
An impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is visual impairment?
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is traumatic brain injury?
Includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease, and impairments from other causes.
What is orthopedic impairment?
A hearing loss that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is deafness?
Body rocking and hand flapping.
What are self-stimulatory behaviors?
A tactile system of reading and writing in which letters, words, numbers, and other systems are made from arrangements of raised dots
What is braille?
The result of penetration of the skull that often results in the loss of behavioral or sensory functions.
What is an open head injury?
Involves the central nervous system, affecting the ability to move, use, feel, or control certain parts of the body.
What is neuromotor impairment?
A loss in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s education performance.
What is hearing loss?
Prematurity, infections during pregnancy (cytomegalovirus and toxoplasmosis), complications during childbirth, and numerous congenital syndromes.
What are causes of deaf-blindness?
Uses vision as a primary means of learning but supplements visual information with tactile and auditory input.
What is low vision?
Results in a concussion, a brief loss of consciousness, without any subsequent complications or damage.
What is a mild brain injury?
Focus on the development and maintenance of motor skills, movement, and posture
What is a physical therapist?
A level of hearing loss that makes it difficult but not impossible to comprehend speech through hearing.
What is hard of hearing?
A group of genetic conditions that involves both hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa.
What is Usher Syndrome?
Refractive errors, structural impairments, and cortical visual impairments.
What are the three categories of the causes of visual impairment?
Loss of oxygen to the brain, which may be experienced by a person with a severe brain injury.
What is anoxia?
Perform below average on measures of social-behavioral skills and function below grade level academically.
What are characteristics of orthopedic impairment?
Any combination of conductive, sensory, and neural hearing loss.
What is mixed hearing impairment?
The speaker signs each letter on the listener’s flat palm.
What is manual alphabet?
Most often measured by reading letters, numbers, or other symbols from the Snellen eye chart.
Can result in cumulative neurological and cognitive deficits.
What are repeated mild TBI's?
Age of onset and visibility.
What are variables affecting the impact of physical disabilities?
Results from abnormalities or complications of the outer or middle ear.
What is conductive hearing loss?