Language development in blind multihandicapped children: a model of co-active intervention.
The socialization of blind multihandicapped children depends on their acquisition of a system of communication that will permit their participation in a social world. Bereft of clear visual information and a diminished input from other senses, these children are prone to a range of language acquisition problems. Some children lack the capacity for speech while others speak in well-structured sentences that are simply repetitions of the speech of others or of the commercials heard on radio and television.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012951:Socialization