Strategies
Basic Strategies for Engaging with Children (birth to age 3) with Blindness or Visual Impairment.
Children who are blind or visually impaired learn about the world differently. Here are ten strategies to help providers and caregivers build trusting relationships with these children. Ensuring positive interactions is key to helping children become active learners and fostering their independence. For more click HERE. Non-Visual Multi-Sensory Experiences for Children with Multiple Disabilities.
Vision is a motivating sense. Therefore, when a child has a visual impairment, teachers need to offer experiences that utilize children's other senses to increase engagement, participation, and support their concept development. For more click HERE. Talking the Language of the Hands to the Hands.
This paper examines the importance of hands for the person who is deafblind, reviews hand development, and identifies specific teaching skills that facilitate hand development and expressiveness in persons who are deafblind. It notes that the hands of a deafblind individual serve not only as tools but also as sense organs (to compensate for their missing vision and hearing) and as the primary means of expression. For more click HERE. Hand-Under-Hand and Hand-Over-Hand Instruction for Blind Babies.
If your child has a visual impairment, she can use the senses of touch, hearing, and smell to obtain information that typically sighted children gather visually. To help her learn about the world and the things in it, try to involve all her senses when you are engaged with her and explaining something new. For more click HERE. Supermarketing.
My daughter Serena loves our weekly trips to the supermarket. Her fun begins outside the store, where she chooses just the right basket to sit in. Then we make the automatic doors open. This must seem like some sort of magic to a child, opening onto an interesting world of smells and sounds and tastes and people and, from a parent’s point of view, learning opportunities. Serena was three years old when we began our supermarket routine. You can adjust your “lessons” to the level of age of your child. For more click HERE. |