Mediating Experiences Through Touch:
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Transcript of Mediating Experiences Through Touch:
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’
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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
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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
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• Imprecise information through close senses• Different ways of interpreting information
‘Distance/ close senses – increase in significance in close senses’
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‘Role of adult partner in mediating learning experiences’
Which way shall I go next?
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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?
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Where shall we go next?
And the punch line is …
Baby elephants!