Perkins Activity and Resource Guide Chapter 1 -Teaching Children With Multiple Disabilities: An Overview: Second Edition: Revised and Updated

By Charlotte Cushman and Marianne Riggio

This book is intended to be used as a resource for a range of professionals, parents and other caregivers who are working with children with visual and multiple disabilities. Chapter One provides an overview of teaching strategies for this population and guidelines to be used in ensuring that the instruction is successful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9780988171305

Book preview

Perkins Activity

and

Resource Guide

Chapter 1

Teaching Children With Multiple Disabilities: An Overview

by

Charlotte Cushman

edited by

Marianne Riggio

©2012, reissued as an e-book. ©2004 Perkins School for the Blind, 2nd edition. All rights reserved.

Published in eBook format by Perkins School for the Blind

Converted by http://www.eBookIt.com

Every effort has been made to acknowledge commercial products mentioned in this publication whose names are trademarks or registered trademarks.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9881-7130-5

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

Produced in USA

Funding for this publication was provided by The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation of Reno, Nevada, in cooperation with the Hilton/Perkins National and International Program.

Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts

Preface

Who would have thought that the Perkins Activity and Resource Guide could have been improved by making it shorter? Since it was first published in 1992, this two volume handbook has proven itself to be an invaluable tool for specialists, support personnel, parents, and teachers of children whose multiple disabilities include visual impairment. It has been one of the few strategy-based publications in which these educators could find basic information about providing appropriate services to this population not only in functional academics but in each of the areas of the expanded core curriculum. Now, with the publication of its second edition in just one volume, the Perkins Activity and Resource Guide promises to continue to be one of the first books to which educators turn as they plan to meet their students’ goals.

The heart of the first