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Mediating Experiences Through Touch:. Identifying and reducing potential barriers to learning and participation. Mike McLinden School of Education University of Birmingham UK. What is your most important sense ?. Hearing?. Smell?. Sight?. Other?. Taste?. Touch?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Identifying and reducing potential barriers to learning and participation
Mike McLinden
School of Education
University of Birmingham
UK
• Hearing?
•Sight?
•Touch?•Taste?
•Smell?
• Other?
Children with multiple disabilities and visual impairment
1. What do we know about MDVI ?2. How important is ‘VI’ in ‘MDVI’ ?
3. Development of effective learning experiences
4. ‘Hands on’ experiences5. What did we find out ?
Child’s Joke
What do we know …?
What do we know …?
‘Situation’
???
What do we know …?
Situation characterised by barriers to learning/ participation including:
•Restrictions in use of vision as integrating sense : ’impaired vision’ vs. ‘visual impairment’
•Increased reliance on others to structure learning experiences (e.g. routine)
• Restrictions in development of ‘appropriate’ learning experiences
• ?
How important is ‘VI’ in ‘MDVI’…?
Functions of vision include:
• alert
• anticipate• confirm
• explore
• learn incidentally
• co-ordinate/ integrate
How important is ‘VI ‘in ‘MDVI’…?
Provides opportunities to:
• Take…
•Establish…
• Have…
• Ensure…
How important is ‘VI ‘in ‘MDVI’…?
Control
Development of effective learning experiences
• Distortion quality/ quantity sensory information• Distance/ close senses-increase in significance in close senses
• Imprecise information through close senses/ different ways of processing
• Role of adult partner in mediating learning experiences
Distortion quality/quantity sensory information
? ?
• Imprecise information through close senses• Different ways of interpreting information
‘Distance/ close senses – increase in significance in close senses’
?
‘Role of adult partner in mediating learning experiences’
Which way shall I go next?
???
Hands on experiences
Sensory task planner
• Illustrates role of vision in relation to other senses
• Can consider how we can ‘transfer responsibility for learning’ to other senses in relation to these functions through range of practical activities.
What did we find out?
?
Where shall we go next?
And the punch line is …
Baby elephants!