The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment (eBook, PDF)

Social and Cultural Research
Redaktion: Ravenscroft, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment. It provides a bridge between medical practice and social and cultural research drawing on authentic investigations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351618809
• Artikelnr.: 56842980

Autorenporträt

John Ravenscroft, PhD (Chair of Childhood Visual Impairment) is a psychologist, educationalist and lectures a little in philosophy. He has vast experience of inclusive education, and has advised various governments, locally, nationally and internationally on promoting inclusive education. Professor Ravenscroft is also Head of the Scottish Sensory Centre, which is a national centre that provides career-long professional development for teachers of children with sensory impairment, including those with cerebral visual impairment. He is also the current editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Visual Impairment and lectures on inclusive education, visual impairment, as well as on areas of virtue epistemology and ontology. He has published widely on visual impairment, disability and on research methods.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements;
List of abbreviations; Section I: Introducing and understanding the
profile, sociological and psychological impact of Visual Impairment.;
Chapter 1. Introduction and Synthesis of Themes: The Editor's Perspective.
(John Ravenscroft); Chapter 2. Global Data on Vision Loss: Implications for
Services. (Jill Keeffe); Chapter 3. Psychological Representation of Visual
Impairment: Perception and How Visually Impaired People "See" the World.
(Jennifer C. Fielder & Michael J. Proulx); Chapter 4. On being blind.
(Gaylen Kapperman); Section II: Cerebral Visual Impairment / Cerebral
Visual Processing.; Chapter 5. Cerebral (Cortical) Visual Impairment in
Children - A Perspective. (Gordon N Dutton & Corinna M Bauer); Chapter 6. A
Personal Perspective on CVI. (Nicola McDowell); Chapter 7. Assessment of
Visual Processing Functions and Disorders. (Lea Hyvärinen); Section III:
Education.; Chapter 8. Trends in Low Vision Education: Learning from the
Past, Looking to the Future.; (Amanda Hall Lueck & Gregory L. Goodrich);
Chapter 9. Formal and non-formal education for individuals with vision
impairment or multiple disabilities and vision impairment: Current trends
and challenges. (Vassilios Argyropoulos & Frances Gentle); Chapter 10.
Transition from school to Higher Education: Research evidence and best
practice. (Graeme Douglas, Rachel Hewett & Mike McLinden); Chapter 11.
Career Education for Students with Visual Impairments. (Karen E. Wolffe);
Section IV: Sport and Physical Exercise for People with Visual Impairment.;
Chapter 12. Teaching Children who are Deafblind in Physical Education,
Physical Activity and Recreation. (Lauren J. Lieberman & Justin A.
Haegele); Chapter 13. Movement and Visual Impairment: Research and
Practice. (Justin A. Haegele & Lauren J. Lieberman); Section V: Assistive
technology.; Chapter 14. Assistive Technology Foundations in Research.
(Yue-Ting SIU); Section VI: Understanding the Cultural Aesthetics.; Chapter
15. Classic Philosophies on Blindness and Cross-Modal Transfer. (Simon
Hayhoe); Chapter 16. In Vision and Touch, Pictures Trigger Equations for
Surfaces and Edges. (John M. Kennedy); Chapter 17. Art, Visual Impairment
and the Gatekeepers of Aesthetic Value. (David Feeney); Chapter 18. Using
Expressive Movement and Haptics to Explore Kinaesthetic Empathy, Aesthetic
and Physical literacy. (Wendy Timmons & John Ravenscroft); Section VII:
Socio-Emotional and Sexual Aspects of Visual Impairment.; Chapter 19.
Socio-emotional Aspects of Visual Impairment: A practitioner's perspective.
(Joao Roe); Chapter 20. Self Esteem of People with Visual Impairment.
(Samir Qasim); Chapter 21. Human Mate Selection Theory: Specific
Considerations for Persons with Visual Impairments. (Gaylen Kapperman &
Stacy M. Kelly); Section VIII: Orientation, Mobility, Habilitation, and
Rehabilitation.; Chapter 22. Modern Approaches to Orientation and Mobility:
Habilitation and Rehabilitation. (Karl Wall); Chapter 23. Measuring vision,
orientation and mobility in the wild. (Lil Deverell); Section IX: Recent
Advances in 'Eye' Research and Sensory Substitution Devices.; Chapter 24.
An overview of human pluripotent stem cell applications for the
understanding and treatment of blindness. (Louise A. Rooney, Duncan E.
Crombie, Grace E. Lidgerwood, Maciej Daniszewski, & Aice Pébay); Chapter
25. Technologies for Vision Impairment: Bionic Eyes and Sensory
Substitution Devices. (Lauren N. Ayton, Penelope J. Allen, Carla J. Abbott,
& Matthew A. Petoe); Section X: Aging and Adulthood; Chapter 26. Employment
and Visual Impairment: Issues in Adulthood. (Natalie Martiniello & Walter
Wittich); Chapter 27. Aging and Combined Vision and Hearing Loss. (Walter
Wittich & Peter Simcock); Index