SPk534 Special Education of Visually Impaired 2-Strategies and Possibilities of Support in the Educational

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/2. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Petra Röderová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Vrubel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Petra Röderová, Ph.D.
Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Mgr. Ilona Fialová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Learning outcomes of the course unit The aim of the course is to acquaint students with methods of stimulation of visual functions and their use in practice. In addition, students are acquainted with special optical aids and their use (edge filters, prismatic lenses, magnifiers, binoculars) and using special neoptical aids (digital magnifying devices, special software, self-service aids, spatial orientation aids). Students will be acquainted with methods of school counseling.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- describe methods of visual stimulation and use them
- recommend a suitable special optical aid and teach the client
- recommend a suitable special non-optic aid
- accompany by people with severe visual impairment
- provide qualified counseling on the rehabilitation of people with visual impairment
Syllabus
  • • Visual stimulation active and passive
  • • Visual hygiene
  • • Regular optical aids to correct refractive defects (spherical, toric, bifocal, multifocal lenses)
  • • Special optical aids (edge filters, prismatic lenses, Franklin type lenses, magnifying glasses, telescopes)
  • • Special non-optic aids (information barriers, self-help tools, orientation aids)
  • • Methodology of teaching spatial orientation and independent movement
  • • Accompanying people with severe visual impairment
  • • Advice on the rehabilitation of people with visual impairment
  • • Psycho hygiene
Literature
    required literature
  • VRUBEL, Martin. Facilitátory a bariéry školní a sociální inkluze osob se zrakovým postižením (Facilitators and barriers of school and social inclusion of people with visual impairment). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 186 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8022-5. info
  • MORAVCOVÁ, Dagmar and Eva MATOUŠKOVÁ. Rozvoj dovedností zrakového vnímání se speciálními optickými pomůckami a kamerovou televizní lupou : metodická příručka s náměty pro rozvoj dovedností : (pro učitele, vychovatele, žáky se zrakovým postižením a jejich rodiče). V Praze: [s.n.], 2011, 48 s. ISBN 9788025498774. info
  • MORAVCOVÁ, Dagmar. Zraková terapie slabozrakých : jak efektivně využít slabý zrak. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Triton, 2007, 39 s. ISBN 9788072549498. info
    recommended literature
  • Functional vision : a practitioner's guide to evaluation and intervention. Edited by Amanda Hall Lueck. New York: AFB Press, American Foundation for the Blind, 2004, xx, 521. ISBN 9780891288718. info
  • The Lighthouse handbook on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation. Edited by Barbara Silverstone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, s. 671-137. ISBN 9780195094893. info
    not specified
  • RÖDEROVÁ, Petra, Lea KVĚTOŇOVÁ and Zita NOVÁKOVÁ. Oftalmopedie : texty k distančnímu vzdělávání. Brno: Paido - edice pedagogické literatury, 2007, 125 s. ISBN 9788073151454. info
  • FINKOVÁ, Dita, Libuše LUDÍKOVÁ and Veronika RŮŽIČKOVÁ. Speciální pedagogika osob se zrakovým postižením. 1st ed. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2007. ISBN 978-80-244-1857-5. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, video, discussion, simulation
Assessment methods
continuous testing, final testing , attendance min. 70%
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 24 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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