PdF:SP3127 Communication for Individuals - Course Information
SP3127 Communication for Individuals with Visual and Hearing Impairments - introduction
Faculty of EducationSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Radka Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Petra Kaválková (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Radka Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Radka Horáková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Speech and Language Therapy (programme PdF, B-LOG) (2)
- Course objectives
- The students will teoretically learn the problematic of persons with dual sensory impairment, especially with an emphasis on the possibilities of communication of these persons. They will learn basics of some communicative forms and some of them they will try to use. The students will be able to propose the procedures in the education of children and pupils with deafblindness and they will be able to imagine the development of their communication competences through the different communication forms. The students will learn the theory and practice of the communication competences development by the persons with acquired and inborn deafblindness. The will use the skills acquired until this time and will learn to combinate various approaches according to the grade of sight and hearing by the children with deafblindness.
- Learning outcomes
- - Students will focus on the issue of care for people with dual sensory impairment, especially with an emphasis on the possibilities of communication of these persons. - Students will learn practical basics of some forms of communication and others will try. - Students will be able to design procedures for the education of children and pupils with deafblindness and will be able to choose appropriate strategies for developing the communication skills of deafblind people.
- Syllabus
- Definition of deafblindness. Classification and etiology of deafblindness. The consequences of deafblindness. System of comprehensive care for a person with deafblindness. Educational options for children and pupils with deafblindness. Communication systems for people with deafblindness. Development of communication skills in children with congenital deafblindness. Organization of people with deafblindness.
- Literature
- required literature
- HRICOVÁ, Lenka and Lenka DOLEŽALOVÁ. Hluchoslepota (Deafblindness). In Bartoňová, M., Bytešníková, I., Vítková, M. et al. Děti se speciálními vzdělávacími potřebami v mateřské škole. Texty k distančnímu vzdělávání. Brno: Paido, 2012, p. 157-173. ISBN 978-80-7315-237-6. info
- HORÁKOVÁ, Radka and Eva SOURALOVÁ. Problematika osob s hluchoslepotou a kontaktní tlumočení u hluchoslepých preferujících český znakový jazyk (Interpreting services of tactiling sign language for deafblind). Praha: Česká komora tlumočníků znakového jazyka, 2008, 69 pp. 1. vydání. ISBN 978-80-87153-34-5. info
- ŠTĚRBOVÁ, Dana. Hluchoslepota : lidé s ní a kolem ní. 2. vydání. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2006, 103 stran. ISBN 8024414333. info
- Perspektivy rehabilitace hluchoslepých. Edited by Stanisław Kowalik - Augustyn Bańka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Wagner Press, 2000, 133 s. ISBN 8090301908. info
- Teaching methods
- teoreticaly preparing, practicly teaching, group work, homeworks, discussion
- Assessment methods
- Production of aids for people with HS, seminar work.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/ped/spring2025/SP3127