Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments: From Theory to Practice

ISBN-10
0891288082
ISBN-13
9780891288084
Category
Blind children
Language
English
Published
2006
Authors
Sharon Sacks, Karen E. Wolffe

Description

"This book expands upon the knowledge base and provides a compendium of intervention strategies to support and enhance the acquisition of social skills and children and youths with visual impairments ... Part 1 ... addresses social skills from a first-person perspective. The second part ... examines how theory seeks to explain social development and influences assessment and practice ... Part 3, ties personal perspectives and theory to actual practice. Finally, Part 4 ... offers numerous examples and models for teaching social skills to students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabling conditions."--Introduction.

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