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Compensatory Skills:
Essential Considerations for Learning
Ellen Cadigan Mazel, M.Ed., CTVIConcord Area Special Education Collaborative (CASE)
Cover slide
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Brain’s Job
Gather information
Interpret information
Respond to information
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Homunculus
More neurons are dedicated to certain regions
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Near Senses: Touch, Taste and Smell
Distance Senses: Vision and Hearing
senses
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Why Consider Compensatory Skills?
To capitalize on strengths
To support and build skills in weak areas
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Understand how that sense develops in children.
Assess how the child uses these senses.
Think about strategies to support learning with these senses.
Why consider, continued
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Vision
Vision rules the brain
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How Vision Develops
Birth: • Sees black, white and gray• 8-12 inches
At 1 week: • Sees red, orange, yellow and green• 20/400• Turns to look at light
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How Vision Develops
At 2-3 months:• Eye contact• Sharper acuity• Eyes work together• Follows object• Shifts gaze
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How Vision Develops
At 4-6 months:• Watching own hands• Depth perception develops• 20/25• Reaching• Recognizes things at a distance.
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How Vision Develops
At 7-10 months:•Reaches to smaller things•Interested in pictures•Recognizes partially hidden things•Coordinated vision and movement•Better eye hand and eye foot•Judges distances better
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How Vision Develops
At 12 months:•Recognizes pictures•Anticipates adult’s attention•Nearly adult vision skills
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Visual Impairment Limits:
Object understanding
Relationship between objects
Object permanence
Cause and effect
Spatial relationships
Concept development
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Visual Impairment
Communication (facial expressions, gestures, body language) Confused pronouns.
Eye contact limits interactions
Gross motor development
Fine motor development
Bonding
Passive
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Assessing Vision
Ophthalmologist/ Low vision clinic
Certified Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments• Functional vision assessment• Cortical visual assessment• Learning Media Assessment• Interpret eye reports
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Improving Visual Experiences
For children with visual impairments:
Early diagnosis of visual problems
Early correction
Early intervention
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Improving Visual Experiences
Improved lighting
Reduced glare
Best distance and placement
Higher contrast
Larger sizes
Real objects in natural routines
Time for visual exploration
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Strategies: Vision: Cortical
Highlighting color
Movement
Familiar
Best distance
Low complexity (visual, auditory, positional)
Backlighted
Control light
Increased time to look, recognize and reach
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Questions?
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How Hearing Develops
Neural pathways for hearing develop early in utero.
Babies have been listening for about 12 weeks when they are born.
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How Hearing Develops
Hearing improves over time with full skills at adolescence.
Frequency sensitivity: high frequencies are better until the second year.
Sound localization: horizontal sounds are understood better, not good locating vertical sounds until 6 months old. This improves until the child is 7 years old.
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How Hearing Develops
Hearing Skills:
Threshold: Babies are hard of hearing until about 6 months and improve gradually until puberty.
Temporal resolution; babies need more time between sounds for understanding.
Discriminating sound from background: poor in infancy and young childhood.
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Hearing
A child who is sighted hears the world, turns and visually connects the sound with its sound source.
A child who is visually impaired hears the sounds but often lacks the understanding of the sound’s direction or source.
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Hearing and Music
Young children love music.
The brain favors music.
Music skills are in both hemispheres of the brain.
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Assessing Hearing
Get hearing tested.
Assess reaction to language and speech.
Do they alert to familiar voices or music?
Assess reactions to environmental sounds.
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Assessing Hearing
What types of sound cause a reaction?
Are there sound preferences?
Is reaction better in quieter environments?
Is the sound direction important?
How long does the sound need to last before you see the reaction?
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Strategies: Hearing
Bring the sound to them.
Bring them to the sound.
Allow them to create sounds and music.
Use music and predictable books.
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Strategies: Hearing
Speak to a child at eye level.
Slow down your speech with more space between words and directions.
Label sounds.
Teach in a quieter environment.
Address the child by name before the message.
Identify yourself.
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Questions?
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Hearing
Fire truck!
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How Smell Develops
Well developed in utero and immediately useful at birth
Hardwired to the amygdala: (brain for emotions and memory).
Learning tied to the amygdala lasts much longer.
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Smell and memory
You can store some 10,000 different smells in your "scent memory."
Certain smells will invoke specific memories in people.
Remember…
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Smell and memory
Primary learning channel linked to memory between birth and age 15.
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Connections: Smell and Taste
These senses are highly connected.
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Interactions
Smell and taste:
Tongue only detects sweetness, sour, bitter and saltiness.
The nose can detect a large number of subtle variations.
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Taste
Well developed at birth.
Taste input causes salivation, tongue movements and swallowing.
Important for emotional development; fats and sweets calm, improve attention and help babies sleep.
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How the Sense of Taste Develops
The child has been tasting amniotic fluid.
They prefer sweet tastes.
Up to 20 exposures before accepting newer.
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Assessing the Sense of Smell/Taste
Does child have a favorite food?
Does the child turn away from a filled spoon?
Do you see the child sniff objects and foods?
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TRY THIS AT HOME:
JELLY BELLY BEAN
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Strategies: Using Smell/Taste
Identify and name smells.
Allow time for the child to smell.
Embed smell into instruction.
Use real objects in real experiences.
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Food Avoidance
Children with visual impairments are often picky eaters.
They dislike new foods.
Textures are difficult.
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Questions?
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How Sense of Touch Develops
Pushing, pulling and touching in utero (full term babies).
Not well developed at birth.
Understanding and discrimination builds with experience.
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How Sense of Touch Develops
Passive: being touched until 4 months
Reaching to the environment begins: active touch exploration
At eight months, can identify a familiar object without seeing it
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Touch
Touch is really four abilities with four different pathways:
Skin sensation (I’m touching. I’m being touched.)
Temperature
Pain
Proprioception (sense of movement and position)
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Assessing Touch
Moves to pain
Moves the part of the body touched
Moves to the touch cue
Shows distinct materials they like and dislike
Fully explores textures with mouth
Fully explores objects with hands
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Assessing Touch
Reaction to light pressure/deep pressure
Reactions to different temperatures
Reaction to movement
Reaction to the sensitive touch areas: palm, on the fingers, or around the mouth
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Strategies: Using Touch
Active Learning
Increase access to materials at all times
Littleroom, sensory vests, attribute trays
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Touch
• Allow mouthing• Hand under hand exploration• Increased exploration time.• Touch cues• Allow full touch without hand splints
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Questions?
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Sensory Channels
Give the child materials.
What do they do?
What self body play?
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Bringing it together
Using senses is important but they must be used together, built into meaningful constructs for true understanding and meaning.
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Compensatory Skills:
Essential Considerations
The End
Ellen Cadigan Mazel, M.Ed.,CTVIConcord Area Special Education Collaborative (CASE)