Toward a Diagnostic Intervention Model for Fostering Harmonious Interactions between Deaf-Blind Children and Their Educators.

This article presents a diagnostic intervention model as a guide for designing and conducting interventions to foster harmonious interactions between deaf-blind children and their educators in various settings and explicates its theoretical and empirical foundations. The model includes a stated purpose, intervention principles, and a five-step intervention protocol including an interaction analysis in terms of eight categories of behavior. (Contains references.) (Author/DB)