Have you ever considered how a person with deafblindness establishes the concepts that you and I (as sighted, hearing people) learn incidentally, through our distance senses…. From observation? We will investigate how to initiate conversation and in-turn develop meaningful shared experiences. Strategies for the classroom will be shared so that participants can infuse the ideas discussed in meaningful programming for their students.
Learning Objectives:
Human Connectedness - Participants will gain understanding of the importance of Co-presence, mindfulness, and moments of joy, and learn strategies for incorporating them into their daily programming.
Participants will gain understanding of the importance of “significant emotional moments”, and how these relate to a persons sense of self, and sense of place (one’s life story).
Participants will gain an understanding of the tactile learner’s perspective – typical vs. sensorially impaired learners.
Language vs. Communication - Participants will gain an understanding of the student’s communication vs. the Adult’s formal language, and what this may mean from the Deafblind perspective/concept of the world – how does your student communicate? And, how do I introduce my formal language?
Routines for conceptualization: a framework for life - Participants will learn basics of the Interaction model and how this fits with the ideas of conversation as a routine, greeting rituals, “acknowledgement of the you”.
Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of the calendar system as tool for literacy and how the dynamic interactive communication model support each other.