Reading Rehabilitation for Individuals with Low Vision
Research and Practice in the Czech Republic
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Beschreibung
This book presents an emerging rehabilitation program for improving the reading abilities of individuals with low vision who undergo therapy for visual impairment. Its interdisciplinary framework for visual training through reading skills development aligns its goals with those of special education programs and features anatomical and psychological background chapters, diverse perspectives on rehabilitation, and empirical supporting data. Program details span theoretical bases, strategies and planning, pedagogical considerations, use of assistive technologies, and assessment of client progress and program efficacy. And by locating rehabilitation in the psychosocial experience of visual disability, the program can be used as a means of building confidence and motivation, contributing to improved quality of life.
Included in the coverage:
• Visual impairment and its impact on development.• Rehabilitation of individuals withvisual impairment in the Czech Republic.• Innovative vision rehabilitation system: theoretical postulates, meanings, and objectives.• Reading as a main objective of vision rehabilitation.• Verification of effectiveness of the reading performance experimental rehabilitation program.
Reading Rehabilitation for Individuals with Low Vision is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians/practitioners, and graduate students in varied fields such as cognitive psychology, rehabilitation, literacy, special education, child and school psychology, visual therapy, and public health.
This book presents an emerging rehabilitation program for improving the reading abilities of individuals with low vision who undergo therapy for visual impairment. Its interdisciplinary framework for visual training through reading skills development aligns its goals with those of special education programs and features anatomical and psychological background chapters, diverse perspectives on rehabilitation, and empirical supporting data. Program details span theoretical bases, strategies and planning, pedagogical considerations, use of assistive technologies, and assessment of client progress and program efficacy. And by locating rehabilitation in the psychosocial experience of visual disability, the program can be used as a means of building confidence and motivation, contributing to improved quality of life.
Included in the coverage:
- Visual impairment and its impact on development.
- Rehabilitation of individuals with visual impairment in the Czech Republic.
- Innovative vision rehabilitation system: theoretical postulates, meanings, and objectives.
- Reading as a main objective of vision rehabilitation.
- Verification of effectiveness of the reading performance experimental rehabilitation program.
Reading Rehabilitation for Individuals with Low Vision is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians/practitioners, and graduate students in varied fields such as cognitive psychology, rehabilitation, literacy, special education, child and school psychology, visual therapy, and public health.
Introduces a unique rehabilitation program developed in the Czech Republic for improving reading skills in low-vision individuals Provides special education recommendations for teaching reading skills to individuals with low vision Compares the Czech Republic rehabilitation program with research findings from across the globe Details strategies for helping individuals with low vision develop visual and reading skills Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Kamila Růžičková
Themen in »Reading Rehabilitation for Individuals with Low Vision«
Assessment of reading performance in individuals with low vision Assistive devices and technology for individuals with low vision Cognitive processes and vision rehabilitation Development of visual training for individuals with low vision Reading accuracy and individuals with low vision Reading comprehension and individuals with low vision Reading performance and individuals with low vision Reading skills development for individuals with low vision Reading speed and individuals with low vision Social context of visual impairment Teaching recommendations for training reading skills Theory of reading performance Visual attention in individuals with low vision Visual cognition and disorders Visual impairment and reading abilities