LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Early Intervention of a Child with Multiple Disabilities -
A Case Study

Navnit Kumar

Abstract

The study aims at obtaining adequate and early intervention services for infants with multiple disabilities. A 5 month old male child was referred to for audiological evaluation at AYJNIHH (ERC). His mother noticed his problem at 2.5 months of age. A systematic approach was chosen for early intervention for the children with multiple disabilities.

For complete diagnosis of a child with multiple disabilities, the assessment at AYJNIHH includes (1) Audiological evaluation (2) Speech and language evaluation, (3) Hearing aid trial and fitting and (4) Psychological evaluation. After 10 sessions of speech and language therapy, progress was observed in cognitive and linguistic domains as assessed with Communication DEALL developmental check lists. Simultaneously the child had received occupational therapy.

In India, the field of multiple disabilities is a new emerging field. To promote early intervention vigorously for the children with multiple disabilities further studies are needed to identify high risk factors associated with multiple disabilities. There is also the need to develop skills in gathering information regarding infants’ hearing, vision, motor, cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional skills.

Key words: Multiple disabilities, Deaf blindness.

INTRODUCTION

Disability has been defined as any restriction or lack of ability (resulting from impairment) to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for human being, generally taken to be at the level of the individual (Sharma, 2005). A child with more than one condition of disability that affects learning is “multiply disabled.” As per the National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999, multiple disability means a combination of two or more disabilities as defined in clause (I) of Section (2) of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, which include blindness, low vision, leprosy-cured, hearing impairment, locomotor disability, mental retardation and mental illness.

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Navnit Kumar
Research Officer
Department of Speech Language Pathology
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka
India
navnitaiish@gmail.com
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