Guides: MC: Multicultural Center & Resources: ODA trainings

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The UNT Office of Disability Access (ODA) website has UNT specific resources and trainings. The Office of Disability Access (ODA) partners with the Multicultural Center to deliver the deaf/Deaf & Hard of Hearing Training and Blind/Visually Impaired Training.

Scope of this guide:

This page includes ways to browse to UNT Libraries collection and get you started with some examples resources. It is not a list of all available resources on these topics. There may be other, more in depth resource guides from the accessibility committee in the future. This guide page only includes ODA-MC partnerships and highlights some example resources at UNT Libraries. Please do consult the official university websites and UNT calendar campus-wide events, or the UNT Bridge website for virtual learning options. You can also visit the Multicultural Center Trainings [website] to learn more about their programs.

UNT Libraries resources

Browsing UNT Libraries collection of resources:

One way to browse is by Library of Congress Subject Headings through our UNT Libraries Catalog called Discover.

d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing resources at UNT Libraries can be browsed with headings such as:

d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Film Resources: Books

Deaf culture: exploring deaf communities in the United States
Authors: Irene W. Leigh, PhD, Jean F. Andrews, PhD, Raychelle Harris, PhD, Topher Gonzalez Avila, MA.
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"A contemporary and vibrant Deaf culture is found within Deaf communities, including Deaf Persons of Color and those who are DeafDisabled and DeafBlind. Taking a more people-centered view, the second edition of Deaf Culture: Exploring Deaf Communities in the United States critically examines how Deaf culture fits into education, psychology, cultural studies, technology, and the arts. With the acknowledgment of signed languages all over the world as bona fide languages, the perception of Deaf people has evolved into the recognition and acceptance of a vibrant Deaf culture centered around the use of signed languages and the communities of Deaf peoples. Written by Deaf and hearing authors with extensive teaching experience and immersion in Deaf cultures and signed languages, Deaf Culture fills a niche as an introductory textbook that is more inclusive, accessible, and straightforward for those beginning their studies of the Deaf-World"
Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences
Author/Creator: Zárate, Soledad
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Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of captioning and subtitling, a discipline that has evolved quickly in recent years.
Shifting the dialog, shifting the culture: pathways to successful postsecondary outcomes for deaf individuals
Author: Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio
Words made flesh: nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture
Author: R.A.R. Edwards
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During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations. a. Just as the Deaf community began to be recognized as a minority culture, in the 1850s, a powerful movement arose to undo it, namely oral education. Advocates of oral education, deeply influenced by the writings of public school pioneer Horace Mann, argued that deaf students should stop signing and should start speaking in the hope that the Deaf community would be abandoned, and its language and culture would vanish. In this revisionist history, Words Made Flesh explores the educational battles of the nineteenth century from both hearing and deaf points of view. It places the growth of the Deaf community at the heart of the story of deaf education and explains how the unexpected emergence of Deafness provoked the pedagogical battles that dominated the field of deaf education in the nineteenth century, and still reverberate today. a
Mental health and some sociocultural issues in deaf people
Author: Benito Daniel Estrada Aranda
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Hearing Beethoven: a story of musical loss and discovery
Author: Robin Wallace
Book (Print/Paper)
Willis 4FL Music Library
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We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act of superhuman heroism. But the truth is that Beethoven's response to his deafness was entirely human. And by demystifying what he did, we can learn a great deal about Beethoven's music. Perhaps no one is better positioned to help us do so than Robin Wallace, who not only has dedicated his life to the music of Beethoven but also has close personal experience with deafness. One day, at the age of forty-four, Wallace's late wife, Barbara, found she couldn't hear out of her right ear-the result of radiation administered to treat a brain tumor early in life. Three years later, she lost hearing in her left ear as well. Over the eight and a half years that remained of her life, despite receiving a cochlear implant, Barbara didn't overcome her deafness or ever function again like a hearing person. Wallace shows here that Beethoven didn't do those things, either. Rather than heroically overcoming his deafness, as we're commonly led to believe, Beethoven accomplished something even more difficult and challenging: he adapted to his hearing loss and changed the way he interacted with music, revealing important aspects of its very nature in the process. Creating music became for Beethoven became a visual and physical process, emanating from visual cues and from instruments that moved and vibrated. His deafness may have slowed him down, but it also led to works of unsurpassed profundity.
The deaf way: perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture
Author(s): Carol J. Erting [and others], editors
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Deaf Cultures Around the World
Deaf History
The Study of Sign Language in Society
Diversity in the Deaf Community
Deaf Clubs and Sports
The Deaf Child in the Family
Education
Deaf/Hearing Interaction
Deaf People and the Arts
Deaf People and Human Rights Issues.
Auditory-verbal therapy: science, research, and practice
[edited by] Warren Estabrooks, Helen McCaffrey Morrison, Karen MacIver-Lux
E-Book
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"Inspired by the work of the pioneers of Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT), this comprehensive book respectfully offers detailed, in-depth knowledge and insights about the science, research, and practice of AVT for current and future generations of AVT practitioners. Edited by world renown experts with contributions by a global cohort of authors, Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice is highly relevant to today's community of practitioners of Auditory-Verbal Therapy (LSLS Cert. AVT), and to those who are working towards LSLS Cert. AVT certification. It is also an excellent resource for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, teachers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, administrators, psychologists, cochlear implant surgeons, primary care physicians, social workers, and other allied health and education professionals. Although written primarily for practitioners, it will be a welcome resource for parents, family members, and other caregivers who love children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and for whom the desired outcomes are listening, spoken language, and literacy"
The invention of miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness
Author: Katie Booth
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"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts-or perhaps, more accurately, because of them-Bell had become the American Deaf community's most powerful enemy. The Invention of Miracles recounts an extraordinary piece of forgotten history. Weaving together a moving love story with a fascinating tale of innovation, it follows the complicated tragedy of a brilliant young man who set about stamping out what he saw as a dangerous language: Sign. The book offers a heartbreaking look at how heroes can become villains and how good intentions are, unfortunately, nowhere near enough-as well as a powerful account of the dawn of a civil rights movement and the triumphant tale of how the Deaf community reclaimed their once-forbidden language. Katie Booth has been researching this story for over a decade, poring over Bell's papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. But she's also lived with this story for her entire life. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell's legacy on her family would set her on a path that upturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and the telephone"
Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain 1830-1950
Author: Graeme Gooday, Karen Sayer
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1. Introduction
2. Diverse and Changing Categories of Deafness
3. Advice for Managing Hearing Loss
4. Communicating with Hearing Loss
5. Selling and Using Hearing Aids
6. Preventing Deafness: Two Medical Approaches
7. Institutionally Organizing for Hearing Loss.

d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Resources: Films

Films: Media Library

The media library collection films, games and more! For assistance locating materials, including physical DVDs and games, you can visit the help desk, email media.library@unt.edu or search the Library Catalog.

Lost and Sound (DVD 13485R)
Directed by Lindsey Dryden; produced by Kat Mansoor, Lindsey Dryden; Animal Monday, Little By Little Films
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Examines the efforts of three people who are deaf or hearing impaired to realize their personal connections to music. A music journalist developed severe tinnitus and lost hearing in one ear and had to relearn how to listen to music. A young girl who lost her hearing to meningitis at the age of fourteen months develops the ability to play the cello and the piano. A young deaf woman achieves her ambition to dance. Reveals how the mind can circumvent seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Kindergarten readiness in children who are deaf/hard-of hearing served in early intervention
American Academy of Pediatrics
Streaming Video
Itasca, IL : American Academy of Pediatrics, 2020
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By leveraging public health and education data, this study evaluates the association between early intervention enrollment age and kindergarten readiness in children who are deaf/hard-of-hearing.
Deaf
a Zipporah Films release; director/producer, Frederick Wiseman
DVD Video Created or produced in 1986
Cambridge, MA : Zipporah Films, [2008?]
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Shows the comprehensive training given at the School for the Deaf at the Alabama Institute. Includes segments about teaching parents & teachers to sign, speech therapy, regular academic courses, vocational training and living skills.
Deaf Jam
a film by Judy Lieff
DVD Video Educational version
[Harriman, New York] : New Day Films,[2011]
©2011
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Aneta Brodski, a deaf teen living in New York City, discovers the power of American Sign Language poetry. As she prepares to be one of the first deaf poets to compete in a spoken-word slam, her journey leads to an unexpected collaboration.
Through deaf eyes
a film by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey; written by Ken Chowder; a production of WETA & Florentine Films/Hott Productions in association with Gallaudet University
DVD Video
[U.S.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2007]
©2007
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Explores nearly 200 years of Deaf life in America. Presents the experiences of American history from the perspective of deaf citizens. Six artistic works by Deaf media artists are woven throughout the documentary that complements the core of the film.
The voice of deaf students
Streaming Video[London] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2007Education in video
Write an opera; [volume] 2
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At Westgate College in Kent, teachers Sue Childs and Sandra Hampton get to work on putting the Royal Opera House's Write an Opera course into action with their hearing-impaired and profoundly deaf students. Teachers and students have just a few short months to facilitate the students creation of an original piece of musical theatre. It has to be written, composed, designed, rehearsed and lit, before being performed at Margate's Winter Gardens.
National Theatre of the Deaf
by WGBH Boston Video
Streaming Video
Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1977
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Elliot Norton interviews Betty Bonny, David Hayes, Joe Sarkey, and Robert Bluementhal from the National Theater for the Deaf production of Four Saints, Three Acts.
Touch the sound; a sound journey with Evelyn Glennie
a Filmquadrat production in association with Skyline and BR Bavarian Television Arte, and YLE TV1, Finland; producers, Stefan Tolz, Leslie Hills, Trevor Davies; written, directed and edited by Thomas Riedelsheimer
DVD Video 2004
New York : Docurama, [2006]
New York : Distributed by New Video Group
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Opens the door to a world where sight, sound, and touch magically converge to elevate our everyday sensory experiences. With Evelyn Glennie, Grammy winning percussionist who is also deaf.
Caring for Patients with Special Needs > Anatomy of the Ear
[produced by Medcom, Inc.]
Streaming Video
[Cypress, California] : Medcom, [2003]
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This instructional video, from the Caring for Patients with Special Needs series produced by Medcom, Inc, is about the anatomy of the ear.
Born This Way Presents: Deaf Out Loud
Born This Way Presents: Deaf Out Loud
Streaming Video
A&E, 2018 [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020
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Executive produced by Academy Award-winner Marlee Matlin, this new documentary special follows three predominantly deaf families as they raise their children in a hearing world.

Blind/Visually Impaired Resources: Books and Films

Books

Blind
Rachel DeWoskinBook (Print/Paper)
New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014
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After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma, one of seven children, eagerly starts high school as a sophomore, and finds that nearly everything has changed--sometimes for the better.
Coping with Visual Impairment: Helping our Patients Face the Truth
Maynard McIntosh
E-Book
Created or produced in 2019[s.l.] : Intech Open, 2018
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This chapter explores the factors influencing patients' ability to cope with imminent visual impairment (blindness) as well as methods that can be used to aid patients to rid stereotypes associated with their visual impairment. The factors that influence a patient's ability to cope with blindness can stem from both biological and social backgrounds; biological as it relates to age and social, meaning individuals that are in contact with the patient on a daily basis. Older patients tend to have more difficulty coping with blindness because they have established norms while children tend to feed of their parents' view of their visual impairment. Some patients practice a more spiritual approach to coping with their visual impairment. Although studies have been inconclusive; patients who pray and practice faith tend to have a more positive attitude towards their situation. Participating in sports can also help the visually impaired to have a more positive attitude towards themselves.
Author/Creator: McIntosh, Maynard, author
Visual impairment and blindness: independent study course
sponsored by Department of Veterans Affairs, Employee Education System
E-Book
[Washington, D.C.] : Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Employee Education System, [2002]
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Abstract: This independent study is designed to provide primary care practitioners with an introduction to the pathologies that lead to sight loss, their functional implications, appropriate method of referrals, training programs, and special considerations for interactions with visually impaired veterans.
Visual impairment in the schools
Randall K. Harley, G. Allen Lawrence
Book (Print/Paper)
Springfield, Ill. : Thomas, [1977]©1977
An essay on blindness: in a letter to a person of distinction; Reciting the most interesting Particulars relative to Persons born Blind
Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784
E-Book
London : printed for J. Barker, No. 7, Little Russell-Court, Drury-Lane, [1780?]
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An essay on blindness: in a letter to a person of distinction; Reciting the most interesting Particulars relative to Persons born Blind, and those who have lost their Sight. Being an Enquiry into the Nature of their Ideas, Knowledge of Sounds, Opinions concerning Morality and Religion, &c. Interspersed with several anecdotes of Sanderson, Milton, and others. With copper-plates elucidating Dr. Sanderson's method of working geometrical problems. The third edition. Translated from the French o M. Diderot, Physician to His most Christian Majesty.
The blind poem: Written by a girl, born blind, and now in her eighteenth year. Dedicated to the world, by the authoress, Mary Byrne, of Wicklow
E-Book
Dublin : Printed by Bart. Corcoran, No. 23, Arran-Quay, M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]
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The blind poem: Written by a girl, born blind, and now in her eighteenth year. Dedicated to the world, by the authoress, Mary Byrne, of Wicklow. Price 3s. 3d. or such greater price as the affluent choose to bestow on poverty
Eyes
by Kate Hollingsworth
Streaming Video
London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2007
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Vision is a very powerful sense that includes both sensory and motor components that can impact an individual's performance ability. Vision affects a person's ability to perform everyday tasks like walking, dressing and climbing a fight of stairs. It also affects a person's thinking processes such as reading and problem solving. For many individuals with developmental delays, neurological injuries, and illnesses, therapy can be more effective when vision issues are addressed earlier in their rehabilitation program because vision relates directly to balance, attention, coordination, behavior and interaction with people and objects in our environment. Research indicates that nearly 80% of what an individual learns is obtained visually and that 70% of the two million school-age children who have difficulty in reading have some form of visual impairment, such as ocular motor, perceptual or binocular dysfunction. This seminar recording is designed for professionals who are interested in enhancing their clinical skills and therapeutic success by understanding the symptoms of hidden vision problems and their impact on therapy programs. You will gain knowledge of how vision is developed, the role it plays in learning, and how vision affects success in rehabilitation programs. You will discover how hidden vision problems can impact balance, coordination, perception, attention, learning, behavior, and affect participation in school, sports, work, and activities of daily living. You will also learn about testing protocols, treatment strategies, and experience hands-on activities that can greatly enhance successful therapy outcomes of both children and adults.

Videos

Visual impairment in mainstream: Anna's world
Streaming Video
[London] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2005
Primary special needs; [volume] 2
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Wadhurst Primary has faced the challenge of incorporating Anna, a severely visually impaired pupil, into their school. A day in the life of 8 year old Anna gives us a window into her world. Discover how she feels about being taught alongside mainstream pupils and how successful her teachers have been in adapting their classes to suit her needs. Find out what makes her life easier and more difficult at school and how has she found integrating with her sighted peers. Anna's World is a personal perspective of school life offering an insight into the problems faced by the visually impaired at school and some practical approaches solving them
Caring for Patients with Special Needs > Causes & Symptoms of Visual Impairment
[produced by Medcom, Inc.]
Streaming Video
[Cypress, California] : Medcom, [2003]
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This instructional video, from the Caring for Patients with Special Needs series produced by Medcom, Inc, is about the causes and symptoms of visual impairment.
Caring for Patients with Special Needs > Adaptive devices for the visually impaired
[produced by Medcom, Inc.]
Streaming Video
[Cypress, California] : Medcom, [2003]
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This instructional video, from the Caring for Patients with Special Needs series produced by Medcom, Inc, is about adaptive devices for visually impaired patients.
The eyes of me
Illegal Films & ITVS; produced by Keith Maitland & Patrick Floyd; directed by Keith Maitland
DVD Video
2009
New York, NY : Indiepix Films, [2010]
©2010
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More than 9,000 students across the United States attend residential schools for the visually impaired. Captures the stories of four extraordinary teenagers at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a public residential high school in Austin that has educated visually impaired students for more than 150 years. Captures a textured portrait of these students lives at school, off-campus, and in their hometowns with their families.
Training opportunities
Streaming Video
[London] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2005
Secondary TAs; [volume] 3
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What training do you need to become a teaching assistant? What training is given once you've started? These are just two of the questions covered by this programme, which looks at some of the opportunities available to secondary teaching assistants at The Earls High School. The programme investigates the qualities and qualifications required to become a teaching assistant (TA). TAs and teachers discuss in-service training opportunities and reveal how peer support and knowledge sharing perform vital training roles. An Education Authority trainer visits the school to run a course for TAs on the Key Stage 3 Writing Challenge and at a team meeting, the TAs feedback information they've received from a Visual Impairment training session. Headteacher Tom Johnston gives a Head's perspective on training and the future role of TAs, and assistant headteacher Ros Bartlett explains the value and function of the Learning and Curriculum Support update.
Making inclusion work
Streaming Video
[London] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2005
Education in video
Primary special needs; [volume] 1
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Wadhurst Primary school in East Sussex is a small school that is extremely successful with mainstream and special needs pupils. They have effectively integrated ten statemented children with varying degrees of disability ranging from Daniel, a 7 year old with cerebral palsy, to Anna, an 8 year old with severe visual impairment. Discover how this integration has been achieved, where outside help and support been has been accessed, and what creative solutions have been found when support has been unavailable.The Wadhurst story is an honest appraisal of the reality of dealing with severely disabled pupils in a mainstream setting. Primary schools can gain insight from this school's experiences, both their successes and failures.
The power of vision
[presented by] Alexander Andrich and Patti Andrich
Streaming Video
[Eau Claire, Wisconsin] : PESI Inc.,2011
Video journal of counseling and therapy
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Vision is a very powerful sense that includes both sensory and motor components that can impact an individual's performance ability. Vision affects a person's ability to perform everyday tasks like walking, dressing and climbing a fight of stairs. It also affects a person's thinking processes such as reading and problem solving. For many individuals with developmental delays, neurological injuries, and illnesses, therapy can be more effective when vision issues are addressed earlier in their rehabilitation program because vision relates directly to balance, attention, coordination, behavior and interaction with people and objects in our environment. Research indicates that nearly 80% of what an individual learns is obtained visually and that 70% of the two million school-age children who have difficulty in reading have some form of visual impairment, such as ocular motor, perceptual or binocular dysfunction. This seminar recording is designed for professionals who are interested in enhancing their clinical skills and therapeutic success by understanding the symptoms of hidden vision problems and their impact on therapy programs. You will gain knowledge of how vision is developed, the role it plays in learning, and how vision affects success in rehabilitation programs. You will discover how hidden vision problems can impact balance, coordination, perception, attention, learning, behavior, and affect participation in school, sports, work, and activities of daily living. You will also learn about testing protocols, treatment strategies, and experience hands-on activities that can greatly enhance successful therapy outcomes of both children and adults.
Training program for visually impaired and blind people on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use of semi-automatic defibrillator
E-Book
Created or produced in 2020
[s.l.] : Morressier, 2017
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Introduction Cardiac arrest affects over 60,000 Italians a year. The timely intervention of a bystander is essential to save a life. In this scenario, the theme of the project is inserted, that is born from the request of the Italian Union of Blind and Visually Impaired Ancona (UICAM) to instruct the members on resuscitation techniques. A study, experimentation and revision of the standard BLSD of IRC procedures were needed to make them accessible to visually impaired people. The instructor plays the role of guide of experience, encouraging mobility and orientation, and proposing the new instrument according to the following steps: motivation, perceptual knowledge, use of the instrument, progressively reducing the aid.Materials and Methods The entire experimental project was conducted on a group of 13 people, including 7 blind, 3 partially sighted, 3 sighted people. The main changes made to the standard sequence involve the aid of a bystander for the evaluation of initial safety and during the use of the defibrillator, the use of a hand in place of sight to evaluate the thoracic excursion during the breath, and finally the necessity of specify the visual disability to the central operator. Preliminary meeting with psychologist, documents data collection, satisfaction questionnaires, checklist for participant evaluation, BLSD manual for blind and visually impaired in Braille were developed.Materials and Methods The entire experimental project was conducted on a group of 13 people, including 7 blind, 3 partially sighted, 3 sighted people. The main changes made to the standard sequence involve the aid of a bystander for the evaluation of initial safety and during the use of the defibrillator, the use of a hand in place of sight to evaluate the thoracic excursion during the breath, and finally the necessity of specify the visual disability to the central operator. Preliminary meeting with psychologist, documents data collection, satisfaction questionnaires, checklist for participant evaluation, BLSD manual for blind and visually impaired in Braille were developed.Conclusions The project has shown that a blind person has the skills necessary to act in emergency situations, so he is able to save a life before help arrives.

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Key Perspectives on Dyslexia : An Essential Text for Educators David Armstrong and Garry Squires
Author: David Armstrong, Garry Squires
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This indispensable text critically sets out the skills and knowledge required by a specialist educator for students who present with dyslexia. Key issues in the education and care of those affected by dyslexia are critically explained and explored, with the highly experienced authors showing how research can inform and enrich the ways in which an educator responds to these issues.
The People of The Eye
Authors: Harlan Lane, Richard C. Pillard, Ulf Hedberg
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What are ethnic groups? Are Deaf people who sign American Sign Language (ASL) an ethnic group? In The People of the Eye, Deaf studies, history, cultural anthropology, genetics, sociology, and disability studies are brought to bear as the authors compare the values, customs, and social organization of the Deaf World to those in ethnic groups. Arguing against the common representation of ASL signers as a disability group, the authors discuss the many challenges to Deaf ethnicity in this first book-length examination of these issues. Stepping deeper into the debate around ethnicity status, The People of the Eye also describes, in a compelling narrative, the story of the founding families of the Deaf World in the US. Tracing ancestry back hundreds of years, the authors reveal that Deaf people's preference to marry other Deaf people led to the creation of Deaf clans, and thus to shared ancestry and the discovery that most ASL signers are born into the Deaf World, and many are kin. In a major contribution to the historical record of Deaf people in the US, The People of the Eye portrays how Deaf people - and hearing people, too - lived in early America. For those curious about their own ancestry in relation to the Deaf World, the figures and an associated website present pedigrees for over two hundred lineages that extend as many as three hundred years and are unique in genealogy research. The book contains an every-name index to the pedigrees, providing a rich resource for anyone who is interested in Deaf culture.
Disability and business: best practices and strategies for inclusion
Author: Charles A. Riley II

Government Resources

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United States government resource examples:

United States., U.S. Census Bureau., & Survey of Income and Program Participation (Program). (1992). Americans with disabilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census.
United States. (1900). Annual report. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Rehabilitation Services Administration.

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