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Hadley Course Helps Parents of Children with Multiple Disabilities

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Abstract: This article describes a new course, “Parenting Children with Multiple Disabilities”, that is available from Hadley School for the Blind.

Keywords: blindness, visual impairment, multiple disabilities, Hadley School for the Blind, parenting.

Unique challenges arise when parenting a child with a visual impairment as well as other disabilities, but having a basic outline and strategy could greatly assist a parent’s approach to their child’s learning needs.

Hadley’s new course “Parenting Children with Multiple Disabilities” presents skills and techniques for furthering development in a child with multiple disabilities. This course is available in large print and online. This tuition-free course helps parents to meet their child’s special learning needs.

In just seven lessons, this course provides empowering information to help their child learn and develop. Topics include an examination of basic concepts of learning, a description of professionals who may work with their child; communication, social development, and behavior issues; and an exploration of self-help skills and orientation and mobility. The course features examples of three children with different combinations of disabilities to present how individuals learn various concepts and skills in unique ways.

“Having the right information empowers the parent of a child who has multiple disabilities,” said Ginger Irwin, Hadley instructor. “This course will give parents more confidence to take charge of their child’s learning and development.” This course is tuition free and open to students in Hadley’s Family Education Program. To enroll in this course, you can visit us on the Web at <www.hadley.edu> or call 800.526.9909.

Founded in 1920, The Hadley School for the Blind is the single largest, worldwide distance educator of persons who are visually impaired. Hadley offers over 100 tuition-free courses to eligible students. The school’s 10,000 annual enrollments are from all corners of the United States and more than 100 countries.

Courses are available to students who are visually impaired, family members, and professionals.

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