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Focus on Practice: Dickens for All: Inclusive Approaches to Literature and Communication with People with Severe and Profound Learning Disabilities
Author(s) -
Park Keith
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8527.t01-1-00070
Subject(s) - greenwich , drama , psychology , focus (optics) , learning disability , visual impairment , multiple disabilities , special educational needs , special education , developmental psychology , pedagogy , visual arts , art , physics , environmental science , psychiatry , soil science , optics
Keith Park, a teacher of children with visual impairment and learning disabilities with the Greenwich Visual Impairment Service, describes a series of multisensory interactive drama games re‐telling the story of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, following a discussion of the potential uses of literature with people with severe and profound learning disabilities.