Supporting Life Skills for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment and Other Disabilities: A Middle Childhood Habilitation Handbook

This book is a practical resource for professionals, parents, and carers on their journey to independence with children and young people with vision impairments. It offers a wealth of practical strategies and activities to enhance key skills, including personal safety, advanced dressing, personal hygiene, dealing with puberty, social skills, time, money, and organisational skills, eating, drinking, and food preparation skills, and the transition to secondary school. It is written in a fully accessible style and provides documentation to chart the child's development and show progress over time.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This practical resource is designed to aid professionals, parents, and carers on their journey to independence with children and young people with vision impairments. Building on the ideas and practices introduced in Supporting Life Skills for Young Children with Vision Impairment and Other Disabilities, this book addresses middle childhood, the period from when the child starts school to the onset of puberty. It offers a wealth of practical strategies and activities to enhance key skills, including personal safety, advanced dressing, personal hygiene, dealing with puberty, social skills, time, money, and organizational skills, eating, drinking, and food preparation skills, and the transition to secondary school.

This book:

• Addresses the main independent living skills areas for vision impaired children in middle childhood, by providing simple explanations of skills and offering practical strategies and techniques to support progression onto the next stage.
• Is written in a fully accessible style, with photocopiable pages and additional downloadable eResources.
• Provides a variety of documentation to chart the child's development and show progress over time.

This invaluable resource puts the changes that occur during middle childhood into context and will help busy professionals, families, and carers start preparing children with a vision impairment for adulthood, allowing them to become confident and independent individuals.

Dimension: 297 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032247892